Homemade Caramel Apples

These really are the best caramel apples ever!

Ingredients:

12 Large Apples

1 cup Butter

3 cups Brown Sugar

1 1/2 cups Light Corn Syrup

28 ounces Sweetened Condensed Milk

2 teaspoons Vanilla

Directions:

Wash and prepare apples by inserting wooden sticks. Melt butter on low heat in a two quart saucepan. Add in the next three  ingredients and stir constantly at low heat until the mixture reaches 213 degrees on a candy thermometer (approximately 30 minutes). This is not a typical caramel apple temperature, but it works great for these. Remove from heat and stir in the vanilla. Let stand for about three minutes before dipping the apples.

Tilt the pan to the side, dip the apples  one at a time and place them on a parchment lined tray for cooling.

Enjoy the plain caramel apples or add desired toppings.

Yield 12 Large Apples

Store at room temperature. Apples will last for up to three days.

*Note* This is a family favorite recipe I found online at tammysrecipes.com. In the original recipe it also calls for 1/2 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon that we did not include in our list of ingredients.

Creamy Caramel Dip

Ingredients:

1 cup Butter

3 cups Brown Sugar

1 1/2 cups Light Corn Syrup

28 ounces Sweetened Condensed Milk

2 teaspoons Vanilla

Directions:

Melt butter on low heat in a two quart saucepan. Add in the next three  ingredients and stir constantly at medium heat until the mixture begins to boil. Remove from heat and stir in the vanilla.

Yield 6-8 cups

*Note* This is a family favorite recipe I found online at tammysrecipes.com. In the original recipe it also calls for 1/2 teaspoon Ground Cinnamon that we did not include in our list of ingredients.

Fun Thanksgiving Cheese Ball

Ingredients:

A Cheese Ball of your choice
A Heaping Tbsp of Cream Cheese
Toasteds Wheat Crackers
Carrot
Black Olive
Red Bell Pepper


Directions:

Set the cheese ball on your serving plate. Take a table knife and score 1/2 inch slits into the cheese ball, placing the crackers (the feathers) gently into the slits as you cut them. Mold cream cheese into a small, round ball (for the head) and place it on the top front of the cheese ball. Add small olive pieces for eyes, a tip of a carrot as the beak, and a red bell pepper for the wattle and feet.

Little Lady Crackers

Ingredients:

12 Toasteds Round Wheat Crackers

Cream Cheese

6 Grape Tomatoes (cut in halves)

Olives

1/4 Cup Spreadable Cream Cheese (died black with food coloring and put into a piping bag, or a zip-loc baggie with small cut corner)

Directions:

Spread a moderate amount of the white cream cheese onto a wheat cracker. Make a small slit half way down the grape tomato half and place it onto the cream cheese. Use a quarter of an olive for the head. Pipe the black cream cheese for the dots and legs. Repeat until all 12 crackers are complete with little ladies.