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Apple Delights!
Fall is
a great time to make some delicious and festive apple
treats.
Here are a few we think you will enjoy.
Caramel Apples
1 cup butter
2 cups packed brown sugar
1 cup light corn syrup
1 14-ounce can sweetened condensed milk
11/2 tsp pure vanilla
8-10 craft sticks
8-10 medium apples, washed, dried and stemmed
Chopped nuts
Combine
butter, brown sugar, corn syrup and milk in a heavy
saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Stir
and cook until a candy thermometer reads 248° F.
Remove
from heat and stir in the vanilla. Insert craft sticks
into the stemmed end of each apple. Dip each apple into
the hot caramel mixture; spin to coat. Remove from
mixture and roll apple in nuts while still warm. Set on
wax paper to cool.
Red
Candied Apples
15 apples, washed, dried and stemmed
2 cups white sugar
11/2 cups water
1 cup light corn syrup
8 drops red food coloring
Chopped nuts
Grease
cookie sheet lightly. Combine sugar, water and corn
syrup in saucepan. Cook and stir over medium-high heat
until candy thermometer reads 300° to 310° F or when the
syrup forms hard, brittle strands when a small amount is
dropped in cold water. Remove syrup from heat and stir
in red food coloring.
Insert
craft sticks into the stemmed end of each apple. Dip
each apple in syrup; spin to coat. Roll the apple in
nuts while still warm. Place on cookie sheet to harden.
Baked
Apples with California Walnut Filling
4 large apples, washed
1/3 cup coarsely chopped walnuts
2 Tbsp. small red seedless grapes
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 Tbsp butter
1/4 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/4 cup apple juice
White sugar
Remove
core from apples, without going all the way through the
bottom, and pierce skins with fork. Place apples in
baking pan just large enough to fit four. In a small
bowl, mix together the walnuts, grapes, brown sugar,
butter and cinnamon. Fill apples with mixture and pour
apple juice over top.
Bake in
400° F oven for 40 minutes, or until fruit is tender.
Baste with juice several times. Sprinkle with sugar and
serve warm. Makes 4 servings.
Source:
California Walnut Commission
Printed
October 2007
Web October 2007
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