Homemade desserts can be not only tasty, but also healthy. This is a recipe for a disgracefully simple, but tasty and original dessert of fresh apples in caramel.

It can be eaten as a separate delicacy, or you can decorate other desserts with it, for example, insert sticks with caramel apples into ready-made cakes, pastries, etc. Even children will appreciate such a healthy delicacy. It is better to take apples of medium size, sour varieties, so that they dilute the sweet sugar caramel. You can also add red food coloring to the caramel to make the delicacy look even more beautiful.

Ingredients:

• apples - 4 -5 pcs.;
• sugar - 150 g;
• water - 70-80 ml;
• cream - 50 ml;
• lemon juice - half a teaspoon / or a pinch of citric acid;
• salt - a couple of pinches;
• sticks (long skewers).

How to cook apples in caramel on a stick

We wash the fruits and dry them thoroughly with kitchen towels. It is important to understand that sugar caramel will not stick to wet fruits as it should. We pierce each apple with a wooden long skewer, as used for mini-kebabs (as shown in the photo). You can buy such skewers in almost any supermarket or market. Instead of skewers, you can also use ice cream sticks.

Now we cook caramel from sugar. We take a suitable container, put sugar, two pinches of salt, water and citric acid / lemon juice there.

We heat our caramel on the stove. After boiling, carefully monitor the color of caramel. When the bubbles begin to brown, remove the pan from the stove.

At this stage, pour the cream into the hot caramel and mix.

We begin to dip the apples on skewers in hot sugar caramel.

So that they freeze and excess caramel glass, we leave them on some kind of stand. Then, in the second circle, we dip each fruit in fragrant caramel and so on until it runs out.

After that, leave the caramel apples in a cold place for 20-25 minutes. Delicious apple dessert at home is ready.

Caramelized apples are a Western delicacy traditionally prepared for holidays, weddings, and children's birthdays.

An appetizing fruit simply cannot but please: it looks impressive, it turns out delicious, it smells magical.

Time to make it at home!

Apples in caramel at home - general principles of preparation

To prepare a cute treat, you need dense, juicy fruits. Loose and overripe apples will not work. Small apples look neater and prettier. You can take fruits of any color. If the coating is transparent, then red apples look more beautiful. Fruits are washed and dried well. If there are water droplets on the surface, then the caramel will lie unevenly. In dried apples, tails are removed, sticks are stuck.

What can be used:

Wooden skewers;

Chinese chopsticks;

Large skewers.

Small toothpicks, skewers will not work, the fruit should be securely fixed on a stick. Otherwise, when coated, it will fall into caramel. Yes, and eating an apple on a thin or short stick is inconvenient.

Caramel can be prepared in many ways. There are many recipes below. The basis can be sugar or ready-made caramels, toffee. Other ingredients are added to them: oil, corn syrup, aromatic additives. Caramel is always boiled on the stove. Readiness is checked in several ways. You can spread thinly on a plate or drop a little mass into cold water. It should harden quickly.

Ordinary apples in caramel at home

A recipe for a beautiful treat that requires wooden skewers or Chinese chopsticks. Caramel is prepared creamy from sugar with butter and cow's cream. This amount of product is enough for 6-8 small apples.

Ingredients

300 g of sugar;

20 g plum oil;

40 ml cream;

1 st. l. apple cider vinegar;

1 spoon of water.

Cooking

1. Rinse apples immediately. Wipe them to be ready. Remove the tails from the fruit, stick skewers instead.

2. Pour a spoonful of vinegar and the same amount of water into a saucepan, add sugar and butter, stir and put on a small fire.

3. As soon as the mass begins to melt, pour in the cream. Stir again. Simmer the caramel over low heat until all the sugar grains have melted.

4. Now the fire can be added, after boiling, periodically stir the mass.

5. After ten minutes, spread a drop of caramel on a saucer, if it quickly hardens, then it's ready. If not, boil some more.

6. Now alternately dip the apples in a saucepan, turn the apple so that the mass covers it with an even layer.

7. Spread fruit on a sheet of parchment, you can use a silicone mat.

8. Let the caramel harden. If it is cooked correctly, then half an hour is enough.

Caramelized apples at home (with corn syrup)

The option is very simple and easy to prepare caramel for apples. To cook it, you need corn syrup. The advantage of this caramel is that it can be easily colored with any food coloring. This amount is enough for a kilogram of medium-sized apples.

Ingredients

1 kg of apples;

1 glass of water;

¾ cup corn syrup;

3 cups of sugar;

Dyes.

Cooking

1. Remove the tails from clean apples, stick the sticks in.

2. Mix all the caramel ingredients, add any dye if you wish, you can drop a little vanilla or any other extract. Put the saucepan on the stove.

3. Heat caramel, stir regularly.

4. Cover a board or baking sheet with parchment, grease the sheet with a piece of butter.

5. Check the readiness of caramel by smearing a little on a saucer or dropping it into cold water.

6. If the mass seizes well, reduce the heat to a minimum, you can remove the saucepan from the stove if there are not many apples.

7. Dip apples one by one, transfer to parchment.

8. Wait for the coating to harden, the treat is ready!

Apples in caramel at home (from toffee)

A variant of very tasty and fragrant apples in caramel at home. For cooking, you need ordinary toffee. You can use soft caramels without filling, if you can find them on sale.

Ingredients

400 g toffee;

2 tablespoons of water;

1 sachet of vanilla;

20 g butter.

Cooking

1. Put a piece of butter in a saucepan, you can immediately add vanillin.

2. Release the toffees from the packages, add to the oil. Pour in water and put on a small fire.

3. Melt the mass to a liquid and homogeneous state, stir thoroughly to dissolve all the pieces of toffee.

4. Rinse the apples, put them on skewers.

5. Dip the prepared fruit into the melted toffees, transfer to the prepared surface.

6. Such caramel does not harden to a solid state, remains a little sticky, soft, dessert is convenient to eat.

Walnut apples in caramel at home

Peanuts or walnuts are best for sprinkling caramel apples. To make it really beautiful, take a lot of nuts. You will also need any creamy caramel and sticks.

Ingredients

400 g caramel;

3 spoons of milk;

1 spoon of oil;

6-8 apples;

1-1.5 cups of nuts.

Cooking

1. First of all, prepare the nuts. They need to be fried in a dry frying pan, then cool well. After that, put it on a board or on a silicone mat, roll it with a rolling pin, press a little. Get chopped pieces of the right size.

2. Prepare apples in the usual way: rinse, remove protruding tails, insert sticks.

3. Place the caramels in a saucepan, add milk and butter. You can add some vanilla. Let melt.

4. Stir the mass with a spatula, bring to uniformity.

5. Dip one apple in a saucepan with caramel, twist, remove. Let the excess drip off.

6. Bring to a bowl of nuts, generously sprinkle the sticky coating on the fruit, set aside to let the caramel harden.

7. In a similar way, you can sprinkle apples with sesame seeds, any seeds, coconut chips, waffle crumbs.

Apples in caramel and chocolate at home

A chic version of dessert, which is not ashamed to put even on the festive table. Nuts are used for finishing. You can take another type of sprinkle from the example above. Caramel on corn syrup with condensed milk.

Ingredients

10-12 apples;

400 g brown sugar;

270 g butter (70 g in chocolate);

150 g of condensed milk;

2-3 tablespoons of nuts;

50 ml corn syrup;

100 g of chocolate;

Vanilla, a pinch of salt.

Cooking

1. Prick apples on sticks, put in the refrigerator for twenty minutes. This time is enough to prepare the caramel.

2. Put 200 g of butter, condensed milk into a saucepan, add brown sugar, corn syrup and vanilla. For taste, add a small pinch of salt.

3. Put on the stove, turn on a small fire, cook the caramel until the grains are completely dissolved. Usually it takes about 12-12 minutes, you can always check the mass for readiness.

4. Now process the chilled apples one by one.

5. Lay the products on greased parchment and refrigerate again. Hold until cold.

6. Crumble the chocolate, add the rest of the butter to it. You can replace it with fat sour cream or the same cream. Melt the glaze in a water bath.

7. Chop the nuts, you can fry. Or prepare any other sprinkle.

8. As soon as the chocolate melts, immediately remove it from the water bath. The mass should not be hot.

9. Dip apples in chocolate. You can process the very tip, third or half of the fruit. The caramel should peek out.

10. Sprinkle the chocolate layer with nuts, leave the apples to solidify completely, you can in the refrigerator.

Caramelized apples at home (with lemon juice)

A recipe for a simple caramel with lemon juice that gives fruit a mirror finish. If desired, the fruits can be sprinkled with something.

Ingredients

150 g of sugar;

1 spoon of lemon juice;

2 tablespoons of water;

2-3 apples.

Cooking

1. Add water, lemon juice to sugar, stir, put on a slow fire. It is better to cover the saucepan so that the sugar dissolves slowly.

2. Stir occasionally to lift the grains from the bottom.

3. As soon as all the sugar has melted, you can add fire.

4. Boil the caramel until amber in color, periodically scoop a little into a spoon, make a drop into cold water. If it seizes quickly, then remove the saucepan from the heat.

5. Process the apples, put on a silicone mat, wait for it to harden.

Caramel Apples at Home - Tips and Tricks

Caramel apples will look even more spectacular if they are painted with chocolate icing. You can make lace from white chocolate or protein icing.

Even ranet can be used to cover with caramel. Small apples will especially appeal to children. If you add dyes to caramel, then there will be no limit to delight.

The caramel will set faster if you cover the chilled apples. In this case, the saucepan with icing must be kept on the stove or in a water bath, so that at the right time you can quickly heat up the solidifying mass.

No corn syrup? It can be successfully replaced with starch diluted in pure water.

To make the caramel smooth, uniform, shiny, you need to melt the sugar on the smallest fire. If the mass boils before it dissolves, there will be many grains, the coating will lose its mirror shine.

One of the most popular desserts in Europe is caramelized apples. This bright dish is sold everywhere, especially on national holidays, at Christmas and New Year. You can make a delicacy on your own, at home and present impromptu gifts to relatives and guests, in the form of colored apples tied with bright ribbons.

Apples are better to pick up dense, with a sour taste. Take the fruits of autumn ripening, such as Golden Delicious, Renet Simirenko and others.

Use natural food coloring to make caramel. They are replaced with concentrated fruit juice. To decorate an apple dish, use ground nuts, coconut flakes, colored confectionery caramel, sesame and almond flakes.

Such a dessert can also be eaten on proper nutrition - read more about the principles and allowed foods in.

For a homemade dessert, medium-sized yellow fruits are suitable. For skewers, use ice cream sticks or Chinese wooden sticks.

Cooking time - 1 hour.

Ingredients:

• fresh apples - 6 pcs;
• sugar - 400 gr;
• red food coloring - 1/4 tsp;
• water - 80-100 gr;
• chopped nuts - 1/4 cup
• confectionery caramel topping - ¼ cup;
• wooden skewers - 6 pcs.

Cooking method:

1. String each washed and dried apple on a skewer from the side of the tail.
2. Pour sugar into a metal saucepan, pour in water in which food coloring is mixed, put on medium heat to boil.
3. After boiling, stir the syrup, check for readiness. If a drop of syrup hardens in cold water - the caramel is ready, turn off the heat.
4. Each apple, scrolling, dip in caramel. Dip briefly so that the caramel layer does not become too thick and sweet.
5. Dip the bottom of the apple to the middle in the nuts, the next apple in the balls of confectionery sprinkles. Set the dessert on a flat dish and serve to guests.

Chinese caramel apples

In China, such a dessert was prepared only for the imperial family, and the chef's recipe was kept secret. The dish was served hot, ice water was brought to it in a bowl for the guests to cool the apples and then eat.

Ingredients:

• large apples - 6 pcs.
• flour - 1 cup;
• water - 2 tbsp;
• raw egg - 1 pc;
• refined oil - 0.5 l;
• sesame - 3 tbsp

For caramel:

• sugar - 150 gr;
• vegetable oil - 1 tbsp.

Cooking method:

1. Prepare batter from half a glass of sifted flour and cold water, beat in 1 egg. Knead with a whisk a mass of the consistency of thick sour cream.
2. Dip washed apples into slices in flour. Heat the oil in a deep cauldron to a temperature of 180 ° C
3. Prick a piece of apple on a fork, dip in batter and dip in hot oil. When the slice pops up and turns golden, the apple is ready.
4. Lay the fried slices on a napkin and let the excess fat drain.
5. For the caramel, melt the sugar in a frying pan with 1 tbsp. vegetable oil, constantly stir the mass.
6. Dip the slices in caramel, place on a plate and sprinkle with sesame seeds.

Apples in berry caramel with nuts and chocolate

If you have large apples, cut the fruit into several pieces, remove the core and cook the apple slices according to this recipe.

The cooking time is 2 hours.

Ingredients:

• apples - 6 pcs;
• sugar - 200 gr;
• blackcurrant juice - 1-1.5 tbsp;
• chopped walnuts - 4 tbsp;
• half a bar of milk chocolate.

Cooking method:

1. Prepare a syrup from blackcurrant juice and sugar, cook until it stops bubbling, and a ball rolls from a drop.
2. Dip apples strung on ice cream sticks in hot caramel. Dip the bottom of each apple into ground nuts.
3. Place the cooked apples on a plate.
4. Pour apples on top with a thin stream of chocolate melted in a water bath in an arbitrary pattern.
5. Garnish the dish with a mint leaf and currant berries, serve to guests.

Oven baked apples with nuts and cinnamon under milk caramel

Ground ginger root is suitable for apples. Add it to the nut filling.

Ingredients:

• apples - 8 pcs;
• sugar - 6 tbsp;
• cinnamon - 1-1.5 tbsp;
• chopped hazelnuts - 8 tsp;
• butter - 8 tsp;
• sweets Iriska - 200 gr;
• cream 20% - 6 tbsp.

Cooking method:

1. From the washed apples, cut the core so that the bottom remains intact.
2. Fill the center of the apples with a mixture of 3 tbsp sugar, cinnamon and nuts.
3. Place prepared apples on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Place 1 tsp of oil on each apple, sprinkle with the remaining sugar.
4. Send for 15 minutes in the oven with a temperature of 180 ° C for baking.
5. Melt toffees in warmed cream.
6. Place two apples on serving plates, pour caramel on top.

Paradise apples in caramel with colored coconut

There are such small apples - the people call them "rayki", they are fragrant and look beautiful in any dish. If you can't find them, take the smallest ones. Caramel cools and crystallizes during cooking - heat over low heat and continue decorating apples.

Cooking time - 1.5 hours.

Ingredients:

• small apples - 400 gr;
• sugar - 400 gr;
• water - 60 gr;
• lemon juice - 1 tsp
• food coloring orange and red - 1/5 tsp each;
• coconut flakes of different colors - 3 tbsp each

Cooking method:

1. Divide the sugar, water and lemon juice into two parts. Add red dye to one part of the water and orange to the other.
2. Mix sugar with red water and sugar with orange water in a separate bowl. Put both containers on medium heat, boil and pour half a spoonful of lemon juice into the syrup.
3. Boil the syrup, stirring, until a thin thread is formed, reaching for a spoon with caramel.
4. Prick clean and dry apples on wooden skewers, dip in syrup, scroll to drain excess drops. Then dip in coconut flakes, put on a plate. Use caramel in both colors, and coconut flakes in a contrasting shade.
5. Tie 3-5 apple skewers with a bright ribbon, serve.
6. Pour the remaining warm caramel into silicone candy molds, sprinkle with nuts or coconut flakes and let it harden.

Bon appetit!

In European countries, caramelized fruits and berries are very popular - various desserts are made with them, served with meat and baked with them. If you are a fan of delicious food and love to surprise your family, learn how to caramelize apples.

What apples can be caramelized

Caramelization is the roasting of fruits in a thick sugar syrup. Since the apples will be cooked, it is better to take them with a fairly dense pulp. Very tender and juicy can simply fall apart when frying in a pan. And although they will have an excellent taste, the dish will lose its presentation.

For caramelization, you will also need: sugar, butter, water, cinnamon, vanillin. Caramelized apples go well with pears. The cooking technology is exactly the same as for some apples.

How to caramelize apples in sugar caramel

Since apples need to be caramelized in small batches, cut enough slices of apples so that they lie freely on the pan in one layer.

• Remove seed pods from apples.
• Pour 4 tablespoons of sugar into a cold skillet and place over medium heat. When the sugar is hot and light brown in color, add 2 tablespoons of water to it. Stir the mass and boil for 1 or 2 minutes.
• As soon as the caramel becomes thick, put apples into it. Stirring the slices with a wooden spatula, make sure that they become translucent and covered with an amber crust.
• Arrange the first serving of caramelized apples on a plate.
• Now wash the pan and repeat the process, i.e. prepare the next portion.

How to Caramelize Apples in Creamy Caramel

These apples are even tastier because the caramel contains butter. So:

• Melt in a skillet 2 tbsp. l. butter.
• Pour 5 tbsp into the oil. Sahara. Cook the mass on fire until light brown.
• Place the apple slices or cubes in the caramel and fry, stirring, for 3-4 minutes.

How to caramelize apples with aromatic spices

You can flavor apples by cooking them according to any recipe described. To do this, simply sprinkle the slices with vanilla sugar or ground cinnamon. Do this the moment you put the apples in the hot caramel pan. Spice put quite a bit, so as not to drown out the apple flavor. Fried with caramel, they smell very nice.

Dishes with caramelized apples

Where can you use caramelized apples:

• Serve the caramelized apples by placing them in a rosette and garnishing with a scoop of ice cream.
• Caramelized apples go great with pancakes and hash browns.
• If you are going to put duck, goose or pork ham on the festive table, then be sure to cook apples in caramel for the meat.
• With caramelized apples, you get a wonderful upside-down pie. For him, first caramelize apples in a pan. Without removing the fruit from the mold, lay on top of the apples either ready-made puff pastry, or thinly rolled yeast or shortbread. If you use puff, then pierce it in several places. Place the skillet in a hot oven. Bake the pie until the pastry is golden brown. Turn the finished dessert onto a plate. You will get a flip cake with beautiful and delicious caramelized apples on top.

In the video recipe you will see how to properly caramelize apples, and then make an amazing salad with them.

Now your attention will be presented with recipes not only healthy, but also very tasty dessert. The recipe for making apples in caramel is quite simple and will not take you much time. For this delicacy, the set of ingredients is the most minimal, but the result is an incredibly tasty and amazingly smelling dish. Surprise your family with this delicious dessert. Below are the most delicious recipes.

Recipe 1 - Apples in caramel

Required Ingredients:

• Apples four;
• Lemon juice twenty ml;
• Three hundred grams of sugar.

Cooking method

First of all, you need to prepare the apples, wash them thoroughly and wipe them. It is very important that the fruit is completely dry. Thread them very carefully onto wooden skewers. Lubricate the dish in which you plan to lay out the finished delicacy with vegetable oil.

Put the pan on medium heat, pour all the sugar into it, add lemon juice, and stir, wait until the sugar begins to caramelize. As soon as the granulated sugar resembles a thick syrup, dip an apple into it, and dip it liberally on all sides. In this case, the fire must be reduced to the very minimum. Put the finished caramel apples on a pre-prepared dish. Allow them to cool slightly as the hot syrup can burn your lips. All! Apples in caramel are ready! You can try.

Recipe 2 - Creamy Caramel Apples

Required Ingredients:

1. Apples six pieces;
2. Sugar sand three hundred grams;
3. Apple cider vinegar twenty grams;
4. Water thirty grams;
5. Fatty cream forty ml.

Cooking process

Wipe thoroughly washed apples dry, tear off the tails, and insert wooden skewers instead. Put all the other ingredients in a saucepan, mix and cook over low heat for about fifteen minutes. To check the readiness of the caramel, it is necessary to drop a little liquid on the dish, and if it freezes, then the caramel is ready. Thoroughly dip the apples in the mixture, and put the finished apples on a dish covered with parchment. Let the treat cool down a bit.

Recipe 3 - Caramelized Apples with Sesame

Required ingredients;

1. Wheat flour two hundred grams;
2. Apples two pieces;
3. One egg;
4. Sugar one hundred and eighty grams;
5. Water twenty ml;
6. Sesame oil forty ml;
7. Sesame seeds thirty grams.

Dessert making process

First of all, you need to prepare a batter. To do this, mix flour, beaten egg and water, and knead everything well. Peel the apples and remove the core, and cut into thin slices. Copiously roll the slices in flour. Next, dip the apples in the batter. Each slice should be covered with it.

In a deep saucepan, heat the vegetable oil, bring it to a boil, and lower the slices of apples in batter into the boiling oil. Keep until a golden crust appears, as soon as it appears, take them out and put them on a paper towel in order to get rid of excess oil.

Now you need to prepare caramel: to do this, heat sesame oil in a pan, add sugar to it, stirring regularly, bring it to a state of caramel. As soon as the sugar turns golden, reduce the heat to a minimum, and pour apples and sesame seeds into it. Gently mix everything, caramel should cover each slice of apple. Put the prepared apples on a pre-oiled dish. These apples must be served hot. Before use, it is recommended to first dip them in cold water so that the caramel hardens faster, becomes more fragile and stops sticking very much.

Recipe 4 - Caramel and Chocolate Apples

Required ingredients;

1. Small apples six hundred grams;
2. Sugar two hundred and fifty grams;
3. Water one hundred ml;
4. Lemon juice twenty ml;
5. Chocolate one bar;
6. Any ground nuts.

Cooking

Pierce thoroughly washed apples at the tail, only from the opposite side. This is done so that when cooking they remain intact.

Thread apples on skewers and dip in boiling water for five minutes. Then put on a dish and dry well. In a deep saucepan, mix sugar and water, and boil the mixture over low heat until caramelized. Add lemon juice and mix thoroughly. Dip each apple in turn into the caramel mixture.

In a separate bowl over a water bath, melt a bar of chocolate, and after the caramel mixture, dip the apples in chocolate. And then generously roll them in ground nuts.

Recipe 5 - Fragrant Apples in Caramel

Required products;

1. Apples four pieces;
2. Sugar two hundred grams;
3. Lemon juice twenty grams;
4. Cinnamon five grams.

Cooking

We thoroughly wash the apples and dry them well, put them on wooden sticks. Pour all the sugar, cinnamon and lemon juice into a deep saucepan, and set to boil over medium heat. The sugar needs to be dissolved very slowly, this will allow the caramel to be a nice color and not be too dark. As soon as the mixture begins to turn into a thick syrup, dark honey color, reduce the heat to a minimum and dip the apples into the saucepan. Put the finished apples in caramel on a dish that had to be greased with vegetable oil in advance so that the apples do not stick. You can add food coloring of any color to caramel, thanks to this you can get beautiful and bright delicacies.

Recipe 6 - Chinese Caramelized Apples

Option one:

Required products:

• Hard apples six pieces;
• Lemon juice twenty ml;
• Flour forty ml;
• Starch twenty grams;
• Whites of three eggs;
• Milk one hundred and fifty ml;
• Sugar two hundred grams;
• Sesame fifty grams.

Cooking in the first way

We clean the apples, cut and remove the seed box, and sprinkle with lemon juice so that the fruit retains its color.

We prepare the batter: for this, mix the flour with starch, and slowly pour in the egg whites and milk, and mix all the ingredients very carefully, until smooth. let the test stand for twenty minutes.

Meanwhile, heat the oil in a deep fryer or deep saucepan. First of all, we dip the slices of chopped apples in batter, and fry in boiling oil until a golden and appetizing crust is formed. Put the fried apples on a paper towel so that all the excess oil has escaped.

Dissolve sugar in 100 ml. water, and cook until thickened, until the syrup turns brown. Immerse the fried apples in syrup, arrange them in bowls pre-greased with vegetable oil, and sprinkle generously with sesame seeds.

Before serving dessert on the table, it is necessary to put a bowl of ice water, and before use, caramelized slices are immersed in this water in order for the caramel to become crispy.

Cooking the second way

Required ingredients;

1. Apples six pieces;
2. Sugar fifty grams;
3. Protein one;
4. Flour thirty grams;
5. Vegetable oil for deep fat;
6. Butter;
7. Sesame seeds.

Cooking

Peel the apples, remove the core and cut into large slices. We carefully sift the flour, add cold water and protein, knead the dough, as a result it should turn out to be thick sour cream in consistency. Dip apples in batter and fry in hot oil until appetizing and crispy.

In a preheated frying pan, dip a little butter, add sugar and melt over medium heat. We bring the mixture to caramelization, put all the apples in a pan and mix them well so that they are completely covered with caramel and sprinkle them generously with sesame seeds.

Serve on a platter pre-buttered.

Recipe 7 - New Year's Caramel Apples

This wonderful tradition of making New Year's apples came to us from the west. For Christmas and New Year holidays, they are prepared by all American, English and French housewives. Children simply adore apples cooked in caramel. They can also be made as a small holiday gift.

Required ingredients:

1. Small apples twelve pieces;
2. Sugar four hundred grams;
3. Lemon juice thirty ml;
4. Vanillin;
5. Liquid food coloring, red;
6. Olive oil.

Cooking

Wash apples and wipe dry. In order for the caramel to lay down as best as possible, the apples must be absolutely dry. Thread all the apples onto special plastic tubes or wooden skewers, which are often sold in the departments of the store for the holidays.

Pour lemon juice into a deep saucepan and add sugar. Put the saucepan on a slow fire, stirring systematically with a wooden spoon. After the sugar is completely dissolved, add the dye and vanillin, mix everything thoroughly and remove from heat.

The dish on which you plan to spread apples must be greased with olive oil, so the finished dessert will not stick to the dish too much.

Dip apples generously in caramel, give them a little time to drain a little and set them on a dish. If the caramel begins to thicken strongly, then it must be put on a slow fire.

Ready apples should dry well, and the caramel should become hard. For a brighter and richer taste, it is recommended to dip the apples in caramel twice.

After the caramel shell on the apples is completely dry, they can be beautifully packaged.

Recipe 8 - Caramelized Apples with Coconut

1. Five apples;
2. Sugar four hundred grams;
3. Water one hundred ml;
4. Coconut shavings.

Dessert cooking

Thoroughly wash, dry, and pierce the apples with long skewers, from the side of the stem. We check the reliability of fastening, and if the apples have a wax coating on top, then they additionally need to be doused with boiling water and dried well.

Mix sugar with water.

We put the mixture of syrup on a slow fire and bring to a strong boil. We do not cover the saucepan with a lid, in order for the liquid to evaporate completely, we systematically stir the sugar syrup.

After evaporation, the syrup will begin to crystallize. We continue to stir, but do not remove from the stove.

Now we need to act quickly. Dip the apples into the hot caramel so that the apples are covered on all sides with the mixture.

Ready apples are placed on a pre-cooked oiled dish. The oil will keep the apples from sticking to the plate.

Wanting to decorate the dessert, dip the still hot fruit in coconut flakes, or poppy seeds, or any chopped nuts. The caramel shell quickly vitrifies and cools, so this work must be done without delay.

Apples in caramel is a very original dessert, it is able to decorate not only a youth party, but also a family feast, where it will definitely please the innate sweet tooth with its great taste.

Recipe 9 - Apples in caramel with honey

Ingredients:

1. Three large apples;
2. Ground cinnamon five grams;
3. Butter thirty grams;
4. Sugar twenty grams;
5. Honey fifty ml.

Cooking process

The result will be very original if you use apples of different colors.

Wash apples very thoroughly. We make a thin incision around the stem and remove the entire core. Mix sugar, honey, cinnamon. Place the resulting mixture in the middle of each apple.

We heat the oven to two hundred and twenty degrees.

In a heat-resistant form, lay out all the apples with a cut top, pour quite a bit of water into the form.

On average, bake for seven minutes, it depends on the size of the apples.

Melt the butter in a saucepan, but do not bring it to a boil. Add the rest of the sugar and honey. Mix everything thoroughly and reduce the heat, cook until all the sugar is dissolved and turns into caramel.

Remove from heat and pour caramel over baked apples. Before eating apples in caramel, you need to allow a little time to cool.