Outrageous Caramel Apples

Categories: None

Serves: 5 Servings

Ingredients:

5 4-inch ice-cream-bar sticks
5 Medium-size Macintosh or
-Macoun apples (about 1 3/4
-pounds)
3/4 c Chopped peanuts (or
-miniature candy-coated
-chocolate pieces or
-semisweet-chocolate
-pieces, flaked coconut,
-colored sprinkles, toffee
-bits, or your favorite
-topping)
1 pk (14-ounce) caramels
3 Squares (1-ounce) semisweet
-or white chocolate, melted

Instructions:
1. Insert an ice-cream-bar stick in stem end of each apple. Place peanuts
or other topping on sheet of waxed paper.

2. Line 15 1/2" by 10 1/2" jelly-roll pan with waxed paper; spray waxed
paper with nonstick cooking spray.

3. In 2-quart saucepan over low heat, heat caramel candies and 2
tablespoons water, stirring constantly, until melted and smooth; remove
saucepan from heat. Holding stick, dip 1 apple into caramel mixture,
spooning mixture over apple to coat completely. (If caramel mixture in
saucepan begins to harden, warm over low heat to soften.) Then, place
caramel-coated apple on peanuts or other topping to coat bottom; place
apple in jelly-roll pan. Repeat with remaining apples, caramel, and
peanuts.

4. Spoon melted chocolate into heavy-weight plastic bag. With scissors, cut
off corner of bag to make a small opening. Drizzle melted chocolate over
apples. Refrigerate apples 15 minutes to allow chocolate to set. If not
eating right away, refrigerate apples, loosely covered, up to 2 days. Let
apples stand at room temperature 15 minutes to soften before eating.

Each apple: About 610 calories, 9 g protein, 99 g carbohydrate, 23 g total
fat (6 g saturated), 0 mg cholesterol, 400 mg sodium.
Posted to EAT-L Digest 31 October 96

Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 16:24:00 -0800

From: Pamela Ramsey

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