Yummy in your tummy Fall inspired food!
Hello everyone! I hope your having a wonderful day!
Today is all about Fall inspired food! I love all the seasonal food that comes with Fall!
I am excited to share these with you so lets get started!
Caramel Appples! Oh my goodness, these caramel apples look so yummy!
I just recently went to a craft show and while looking around I came upon this woman selling gourmet carmel apples! These apples had 6 layers of caramel and chocolate and peanuts! They looked so yummy, but quite expensive. She was charging $12.50 for one apple!
These apples looked so good, I actually thought about buying one, but then I cam back to reality and thought, why not make my own? So here is a great recipie to make your own caramel apples if you are so inclined.
Ingredients
1 pound dark brown sugar (about 2 cups packed brown sugar)
2 sticks unsalted butter
1 14-ounce can sweetened condensed milk
2/3 cup dark corn syrup
1/3 cup pure maple syrup
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 teaspoon molasses
1/4 teaspoon salt
12 medium sized apples (that’s a pretty conservative measurement, this makes a lot of caramel)
popsicle sticks or chopsticks
assorted toppings for dipping (toffee bits, chopped nuts, coconut, crushed cookies or candy bars, etc.)
Optional: melted chocolate in zip-top bags
Instructions
Wash and dry apples; place sticks in cores and place on a baking sheet in the fridge to chill. Prepare all toppings in bowls and have them ready to go.
To prepare caramel, combine first 8 ingredients in heavy 2 1/2-quart nonstick saucepan (about 3-4 inches deep, at least). Stir with wooden or silicone spatula over medium-low heat until sugar dissolves (no crystals are felt when caramel is rubbed between fingers), occasionally brushing down sides of pan with wet pastry brush or scraping with spatula, about 15 minutes.
Attach a clip-on candy thermometer to side of pan. Increase heat to medium-high; cook caramel at rolling boil until thermometer registers 236°F, stirring constantly but slowly with clean spatula and occasionally brushing/scraping down sides of pan, about 12 minutes. Pour caramel into a bowl. Submerge thermometer bulb in caramel. Cool to 200°F, about 20 minutes. If it cools too much just heat it up a little.
While caramel cools, line 1-2 baking sheets with silicone baking mats or buttered foil. Set up decorations and melted chocolates.
Holding stick, dip 1 apple into 200°F caramel, submerging all but very top of apple. Lift apple out, allowing excess caramel to drip back into bowl. Turn apple caramel side up and hold for several seconds to help set caramel around apple. If needed, gently scrape the bottom of the apple to remove excess caramel. Place coated apple on prepared baking sheet. Repeat with remaining apples and caramel, spacing apples apart (caramel will pool a bit on foil). If caramel becomes too thick to dip into, gently heat in microwave, or add 1 to 2 tablespoons whipping cream and briefly whisk caramel in bowl over low heat to thin.
By the time you have dipped all the apples, the first ones should be ready partially set enough to add toppings. If not, chill in fridge for a few minutes. Lift 1 apple from foil. Using hand, press pooled caramel around apple. Then firmly press decorations into the caramel and return to baking sheet.
If desired dip caramel-coated apples into melted chocolate, allowing excess to drip off, then roll in nuts or candy. Or drizzle melted chocolate over caramel-coated apples and sprinkle with decorations. Chill until decorations are set, about 1 hour. Cover; chill up to 1 week or wrap in cellophane bags for gift giving.
This is such a cute gift idea!
Instructions
In a 8oz wide mouth mason jar start with a topping of your choice. In this picture they have M&Ms on the bottom, but you could also use chopped peanuts.
On top of your topping, put in 12 caramel squares. Seal it up tight and tie a apple and stick along with melting instructions to the top.
When you are ready to make your caramel apple, take out your caramel and put your M&Ms in a bowl, unwrap your caramels,put them back in the jar and melt your caramel in the microwave.
Dip your apple in the caramel and then into your topping!
Witches Brew!
Very simple and great for a Halloween Party!
Ingredients
2oz of mixed Cranberry Pineapple juice
2oz of 7-up or Sprite
1 1/4 shot of Malibu Coconut Rum (Optional of course)
And that's it!
Easy and delicious!
Instructions
Easy Biscuit Doughnuts - Cut biscuits into quarters, drop in 200 - 240° oil for a couple of minutes (flip halfway), cool sightly on paper
After cooling slightly, dip in cinnamon sugar and enjoy!
This would be so good to eat with a cup of Apple Cider!
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Angela
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