Serves/Makes:12
- Ingredients
- 2 cups (475 ml) granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup (125 ml) Karo light corn syrup
- 3/4 cup (175 ml) water
- red food coloring
- 12 red apples
- 12 wooden skewers or popsicle sticks
- 1/2 tsp (2 ml) cinnamon
- Preparation
- Cook sugar corn syrup and water in a small saucepan, stirring until sugar is dissolved.
- Continue cooking, without stirring, to 300 degrees (150 C.) on a candy thermometer or until syrup is brittle when dropped in cold tap water.
- Remove from heat and set at once over hot water.
- Add coloring and cinnamon.
- Mix well.
- Insert sticks in blossom end of apples.
- Plunge into hot syrup.
- Remove quickly and twirl until the syrup is spread smoothly over apple.
- Place on race until hardened.
- Comments
- These should be made the day they are to be used.
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