Best candy apples

"These should be made the day they are to be used."
Recipe by: jarid

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Preparation Time:

20 Min

Serves:

Difficulty:

Moderate

Cost:

Main Ingredients:

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

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

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.