Well Fall is here and that means time to make caramel apples! If you haven’t dipped apples into homemade creamy dreamy caramel together as a family, be sure to pick a fall weekend and make plans to do it! It’s fun to let each one dip into their choice of nuts, sprinkles or even drizzle them like gourmet ones, with melted chocolate!

My favorite is just the good ole caramel apple, dipped in lots & lots of peanuts! These apples are fun and the caramel is delicious.

caramel dipped apples with sprinkles and nuts

This recipe is pretty simple, no need to be intimidated by homemade caramel, it’s no harder than making chocolate chip cookies. Just takes a little patience is all.

Homemade caramel apples are pretty easy and they really don’t take long at all. You do want to have your apples all washed and dried ahead and your nuts or sprinkles ready also!

First Wash and DRY 5-6 apples (Honeycrisp and Jonagolds are 2 of our favorite apples), but choose whatever your favorite apple is. Next push a popsicle stick down into the center of each. Now set apples on a parchment lined tray and chill in the fridge while you make the caramel.

Caramel recipe:
In a sauce pan put
1 cup heavy cream
1 cup sucanat (or your choice)
1/2 cup honey
4 Tablespoons butter (only real as margarines have water in them!)
2 teaspoons real vanilla extract
Pinch of salt

Boil this creamy mixture until turns dark like caramel and thickens – takes about 15 mins total. When it reaches 240 degrees on the candy thermometer or drop a lil swirl into small bowl of ice cold water and if it tests soft and firm its ready. See just how I do this without a candy thermometer in the video below…..its so easy, no need for a thermometer to make these perfect!

Now let cool just a bit (approx. 3 min) so your caramel doesn’t fall right off your apples. If your caramel is super-hot it will slide right off your apple and pool around the bottom of it on your tray. My helpful tip is -If you chilled your apples (as mentioned above) and you let your caramel cool for about 3 minutes, then it will dip nice and thick and stay on the apple. 🙂

caramel coated apples with nuts — Sometimes we get a lil impatient and see our 1st dipped apples, the caramel started to slide off a bit. so let it cool a few minutes

Now call your family ’round and have fun dippin’ apples into caramel and rolling them in chopped nuts or red sprinkles. Set them on parchment paper and they won’t stick. (wax paper will stick!)

If you want to add extra fun (my gang enjoyed this as they got into teens) ……….you can melt white chocolate chips and some dark chocolate chips, and let them swirl the 2 chocolates around the apples for a gourmet apple!

These are fun to make as a family together on a cool evening or a fall Sunday afternoon. Fall just isn’t fall without homemade caramel apples!
I hope you enjoy making and eating this fun fall treat!

Homemade Caramel Apples – Easy & Deeelish…… See it on Video Here!

Caramel Apples... Yum!

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Instructions

First Wash and DRY 5-6 apples (Honeycrisp and Jonagolds are 2 of our favorite apples), but choose whatever your favorite apple is. Next, push a popsicle stick down into the center of each. Now, set apples aside on a parchment lined tray and chill in the fridge while you make the caramel.

Caramel recipe:
In a sauce pan put

1 cup heavy cream

1 cup sucanat (or your choice)

1/2 cup honey

4 Tablespoons butter (only real as margarines have water in them!)

2 teaspoons real vanilla extract

Pinch of salt

Now let cool just a bit (approx. 3 minutes) so your caramel doesn’t fall right off your apples. If your caramel is super hot it will slide right back off. But if your apples are chilled and your caramel cools for just 3 min. then it will dip nice and thick and stay on the apple.

These are fun to make as a family together on a cool evening or a fall Sunday afternoon. Fall just isn't fall with out homemade caramel apples!

I hope you enjoy making and eating this fun fall treat!