Candy Apples

Name: Candy Apples
Ingredients: 2 cups (475 ml) granulated sugar; 1/2 cup (125 ml) Karo light corn syrup; 3/4 cup (175 ml) water; red food coloring; 12 red apples; 12 wooden skewers or popsicle sticks; 1/2 tsp (2 ml) cinnamon

7 ingredients

9 steps

Ingredients

2 cups (475 ml) granulated sugar
1/2 cup (125 ml) Karo light corn syrup
3/4 cup (175 ml) water
red food coloring
12 red apples
12 wooden skewers or popsicle sticks
1/2 tsp (2 ml) cinnamon

Directions

1

Cook sugar corn syrup and water in a small saucepan, stirring until sugar is dissolved.
2

Continue cooking, without stirring, to 300 degrees (150 C.) on a candy thermometer or until syrup is brittle when dropped in cold tap water.
3

Remove from heat and set at once over hot water.
4

Add coloring and cinnamon.
5

Mix well.
6

Insert sticks in blossom end of apples.
7

Plunge into hot syrup.
8

Remove quickly and twirl until the syrup is spread smoothly over apple.
9

Place on race until hardened.