Name: Red Candy Apples
Ingredients: 6 crisp apples; 6 wooden skewers; 1/2 cup granulated sugar; 2 cup light corn syrup; 1/4 teaspoon red food coloring; 10 drops oil of cinnamon

Red Candy Apples

Ingredients

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

Instructions

Wash and dry apples, remove stems. Insert skewers. Combine sugar, corn syrup and food coloring in top half of double boiler. Cook directly over low heat stirring until sugar dissolves, about 4 minutes. Cover and cook slowly about 8 minutes. Uncover, cook without stirring to hard crack stage (300 degrees) on candy thermometer. Stir in flavoring. Place top of double boiler over boiling water in lower part of pan. Turn each apple in syrup to coat, twirl apple to spread coating evenly letting excess syrup drip back into pan. Set apples on buttered waxed paper. If syrup thickens reheat over direct heat.