Babik Apples

So, the other half of my bubble, her family makes these apples, they are AMAZING (to say the least!)
I love to make them for Christmas gift or baby/wedding shower prizes. They work great for that! But, beware, they are not fun to make! They take a long time, hours. Blah! But, the outcome is so great and tasty. So wonderfully sweet, they can't be beat!
I've made them with a few different kind of apples, but it’s a waste of time, the only kind I use now are granny smith. I don’t really care for granny smith just to eat, they hurt my teeth! But for this, it’s perfect!

What you’ll need:

·         Granny smith Apples

·         Apple sticks – the only place I’ve found these are Fantasy and Frosting in Newport they are cheap cheap cheap!

·         Caramel

·         Chocolate – White and Milk

** Side note about the chocolate and caramel. You can get all of these things from Fantasy and Frosting, but its expensive there. I use a friend I call “the candy lady” she buys and sells candy in bulk! I can get you her info if you would like!

·         Cellophane – Walmart

·         Ribbon – if it’s a baby shower I’ll use ribbons with ducks or something fun!
First you'll just wash the apples and pull the stick thing out of the middle, so you can push the apple sticks in.

After that, you’ll want to melt your Caramel.  I think its easiest to boil a pot of water and then get a metal bowl and put it on top of the water to melt the caramel. *NOTE* be sure you don’t get any water in the metal bowl with the caramel, bad things happen and you can’t use the caramel anymore! Yikes!

I just cover the whole apple and let all the extra caramel fall off and place it on wax paper.

Once you’ve covered your apples with that, then move on, to your white chocolate!

I just melt the white chocolate the same way I did the caramel and then dip it on in. But watch out! The same thing happen's if you get water in the bowl!

 

Here is one of the hard parts, if your chocolate is too hot, it will not stick to the caramel, last time I tired rolling the caramel covered apples in powdered sugar, but that didn't help. :( I'm still working on getting the chocolate to not fall off. ??

After you get them covered and they are cool, you can melt your milk or dark chocolate in the microwave and then I add it in, what should be a ketchup bottle, I use it for this! If you don't have a sister to buy you one of these and put it in your Christmas stocking, like I did. You can always use a fork. haha that's what I did! Don't use your icing bags! It will either met them or just leak out! Trust me! Its a mess, and then gets all over your sisters kitchen. not fun. don't do it.

and then just spray it onto the apples, I've done all kinda fun things on them, but this is my favorite look.

Add your cellophane and ribbon and they are ready to be given out!