Candy Apples
Source of Recipe
Stephanie da Silva
List of Ingredients
8 wooden ice-cream-bar sticks
8 Small Red Delicious apples, washed & dried
1 Cup water
3 Cups sugar
1/2 Cup light corn syrup
1/4 Cup red-hot candies
1/2 Teaspoon red food colouring Recipe
Insert a wooden stick part way through stem end of apples. Grease large cookie sheet, set aside. In 2 quart heavy saucepan, combine remaining ingredients. Over medium heat, heat mixture to boiling without stirring. With brush dipped in hot water, occasionally brush sugar from sides of pan. Boil, without stirring, until thermometer reaches 290¼F, or when a little of mixture dropped into cold water separates into thin, hard threads, about 20 minutes. Remove syrup from heat, and dip pot bottom briefly in cold water to arrest cooking. Tip saucepan; swirl each apple in mixture to coat. Place apples on cookie sheet to cool. Work quickly before syrup hardens. Cool 1 hour before serving.
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