Favorite chocolate dessert in our family! more so once you add the fudge icing!
| Prep Time: | 10 mins |
| Cook Time: | 30 mins |
| Total Time: | 40 mins |
| Servings: | 15 |
| Yield: | 15 candy apples |
Ingredients
- cooking spray
- 15 craft sticks
- 15 medium apples, washed and dried
- 2 cups white sugar
- 1 ½ cups water
- 1 cup light corn syrup
- 8 drops red food coloring
Instructions
- Lightly grease cookie sheets. Insert craft sticks into whole, stemmed apples.
- Combine sugar, water, and corn syrup in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat. Bring to a boil and insert candy thermometer; continue to boil, without stirring, until temperature reaches 300 to 310 degrees F (149 to 154 degrees C) or until a small amount of syrup dropped into cold water forms hard, brittle threads. Remove from heat and stir in food coloring.
- Holding each apple by its stick, dip in syrup, remove and turn to coat evenly. Place on prepared sheets to harden.
Reviews
This is super easy, even for my first time making something like this. The sugar and water mixture really does take about 30 minutes to be ready but it will go a little brown too. I used 1 cup sugar dissolved in 1/4 cup water as a substitute for the syrup, I don’t know if it changed the taste at all but it tasted a bit like roasted marshmallows which was amazing. I also had a candy thermometer that was telling me the mix was at 250 (Fahrenheit) but I got a bit impatient and took it out before it reached 300 because it seemed ready to me. All in all I would totally do this again and it was an amazing recipe!
This recipe is awesome
Perfect, easy to follow and they turned out awesome……a 5 year old could make it, and although I didn’t have a candy thermometer I used an old temp thermometer off the bbq and held it in the sauce with a pair of players and when it hit just over 300………Ta Da eazsy peasy, and clean up was also very easily taken care of…..thank-you, now back to my apple, lol
I’ve used this recipe for years and they always turn out great but recently we made them & tried blue food color & unfortunately it was a complete fail.
Used this recipe, turned out good
Turned out perfectly! We opted out of using dye.
Wonderful recipe! I never made candy apples, i followed other advice on not stirring after first mixing, then timed it for 20 on medium heat, then at timed it another 10 on medium high. I used a normal grill temomentor
Great Recipe. I’ve read some of the reviews commenting on the recipe’s inability to harden. The same thing happened to me. The problem was quickly rectified by heating the mixture longer. The problem was my thermometer stopped reading at 240 degrees. Also, the original mixture failed the “cold water test”. Another 10 minutes on the stove then the transition occurred rapidly.
I AM KNOWN AS THE CANDY APPLE LADY, So its been almost 1 hour and my syrup is not ready! UGH! I MAKE CANDY APPLES ALL THE TIME BUT RAN OUT OF THE KITS I HAD SO I NEED TO MAKE 60 FOR AN EVENT at this rate ill be here for hours and will miss the event!!! I am greatly disappointed in this recipe! it took 1 and a 1/2 hours to make 19 candy apples! so 3 hours to make about 40! I will try another recipe on here next time! THEY DO TASTE GOOD!!!!!!
I’m not sure yet but I hope this will taste good
I’m pretty sure I followed the receipt to a T hoping for good results. These were a hit at my daughter’s birthday party.
I’m doing this without food coloring, and if i adjust it to candy apple slices it’ll make good party food
MADE THESE FOR HALLOWEEN PARTY FOR MY CHURCH,THEY WERE A HIT .
Great candy crackle! So simple to make. Just remember to boil at medium-high heat without stirring. Mines took about 25 minutes after the candy started to boil in order to get the precise cracked stage.
hard as a rock!
Easy recipe. candy temp cage is a must have. next i will try to make gold ones.
The only change I made was to add some cinnamon oil. If you have difficulty with the candy not sticking to the apples, the candy might be too hot. Let it cool for a minute then try. It will start to thicken just a bit when it’s ready.
This is really a great and simple recipe. I read the previous reviews and followed all extra added tips. You must make sure you use a candy thermometer. It takes about 40 minutes of boiled to reach the proper temperature. I would advise to do the cold water test of the mixture prior to dipping. I tried to add Koop-aid to flavor my candy, it is not advisable to add any flavors while mixture is boiled., it changes and becomes bitter. I added color at very end and made beautiful and tasty Marbled Candy Apples.
I added 1/2 tsp vanilla and 1/2 tsp of cinnamon for a little added flavour. Be prepared to wait a while for the mixture to get to the hard crack stage. If you turn up the heat too high it will burn so be patient.
Made this twice. It turned out great both times. Made exactly the first time no problems. Added strawberry extract as an experiment the second time … Don’t do it. Lol! Thanks for the recipe!
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