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Healthy Caramel Apples

Posted by Admin on October 28th, 2009 filed in Uncategorized

caramel-apples_300My daughter was on a mission today. Her goal? Find a recipe for making caramel apples that did not contain processed sugar. After some extensive search, she found one and we tackled it this afternoon. I am happy to tell you that it not only is POSSIBLE to make caramel apples that do not contain sugar, but they are DELICIOUS!

6 small apples
1 cup heavy cream
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup honey

Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Prepare the apples by washing them and inserting a popsicle stick into each apple through the core. Fill a shallow bowl approximately half-full with ice water and set this aside.

Heat the cream and salt in a 2-quart saucepan over medium heat. Stir constantly and just before the cream simmers, add the honey. Continue stirring constantly and stick an instant read thermometer into the mixture. With the burner set to medium high, stir the mixture for approximately 20 minutes until it is 255 degrees. Remove from the heat and carefully set the pan into the prepared bowl of ice water(this will thicken the caramel). Be careful not to get ice water into the caramel. When the caramel is good and thick, remove the pan from the ice water and twirl each apple in the caramel to coat. If the caramel becomes too thick, return the pan to the heat for several seconds.

Set the apples onto the prepared baking sheet. We added some chopped nuts as well. Chill for several hours and serve.

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