Candy Apples

Candy Apples

INGREDIENTS

2 cups (475 ml) granulated suger
1/2 cup (125 ml) Karo light corn syrup
3/4 cup (175 ml) water
red food coloring
12 red apple
12 wooden skewers or popsicle sticks
1/2 tsp (2 ml) cinnamon

METHOD

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.