How to make Candy Apples for Halloween

Candy Apples 1963

• 10 medium apples
• 10 wooden skewers
• 2 1/2 cups sugar
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/2 cup light corn syrup
• 1 teaspoon red food coloring

Wash and dry apples, insert skewers in the stem end.
-Combine sugar, water, vanilla, corn syrup and food coloring, and cook in a large deep pan.
-During cooking, the crystals which form on the pan, should not be stirred into the candy.
=Continue cooking without stirring to hard crack stage, 280.
-Remove from heat, hold apples by skewers and dip into syrup. Place on buttered platter to cool.
Recipe from a 1963 Better Homes Cookbook

Also see the Caramel Apples Recipes page.

Cinnamon Apples

• 6 crisp, medium apples
• 6 wooden skewers
• 1 1/3 cups granulated sugar
• 2 cups light corn syrup
• 1/4 teaspoon red food coloring
• 10 drops oil of cinnamon

Wash and dry apples, remove stems. Insert skewers into blossom ends of each apple.
-Combine sugar, corn syrup, and food coloring in top of double boiler. Cook directly over low heat stirring till sugar dissolves, about 4 minutes. Cover and cook slowly 8 minutes.
-Uncover. Cook without stirring to hard crack stage (300).
-Stir in flavoring. Place top of double boiler over boiling water in lower part.

Turn each apple in syrup to coat. Twirl apple to spread coating evenly--let excess syrup drip back into pan.
-Set apple on buttered cookie sheet. If syrup thickens, reheat over direct heat. Makes 6 apples.
Recipe from a 1963 Better Homes Cookbook

See the recipe: Cinnamon Candy Apples. It also includes instructions for making Cinnamon Lollipops from the leftover syrup.