Ingredients
Scale
- 8 small to medium Gala apples (unwaxed)
- 8 clean twigs (6 inch or craft sticks (flat wooden sticks with round ends or wooden skewers))
- 2 1/2 cups sugar
- 2/3 cup water
- 1/2 cup light corn syrup
- 1/2 teaspoon black paste food color
- 2 drops cinnamon-flavored oil (if desired)
Instructions
- Line cookie sheet with cooking parchment paper; spray paper with cooking spray.
- Wash and dry apples; remove stems and blossom ends.
- Insert twig or wooden stick into stem end of each apple.
- In 2-quart heavy saucepan, cook sugar, water and corn syrup over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until sugar is dissolved.
- Cook about 8 minutes, without stirring, to 300°F on candy thermometer or until small amount of mixture dropped into cup of very cold water separates into hard, brittle threads. (Watch carefully so mixture does not burn.)
- Immediately remove from heat.
- Stir in food color and cinnamon oil until blended.
- Dip each apple in syrup, tilting pan and turning apples quickly to coat evenly; allow excess syrup to drip off.
- Place apples on cookie sheet.
- Let stand until set.
- Wrap in cellophane or place into cellophane bags and seal with a twist. (Don’t refrigerate these they’ll be a puddle of black candy if you do!)
Notes
For the Red Apples simply omit the Black Coloring and Substitute Red
- Category: Party Food
- Cuisine: Southern