Holiday Harvest Festival

Call the carmel apples "Dragon Warts on a Stick"

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How about Ogre Eyes on a stick? After you dip them in the caramel you could press one side of the apple into cookie crumbs to look like a pupil.

For making the caramel you've got two choices. Buy caramels and spend an hour unwrapping them or make caramel from scratch (cheaper but if you're not use to cooking candy it can be a little intimidating.) Here's a simple recipe I found online. http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/caramel_apples/

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My 3 yr old boy gets a kick out of thinking we might drink poison when he gives us water. (Does that sound weird?) HOw about calling them poison apples? If you use a cheap caramel w/ high fructose corn syrup you're not really lying. I hear Cost-co has agood tasting caramel but I don't know the ingerdientsr

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I would buy them if possible - you're a brave woman! Here is a recipe:

http://www.babycenter.com/209_caramel-apples_12600001_###...

More cost effective than convenient...

I love the names that have been suggested! Have fun :)

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I like Rae W's "Scare-a-mel apples" suggestion.
Or maybe something like " gooey gooey gobble-ins"?

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One of my teacher friends has an invertebrate party instead of a Halloween party for her students each year. All of her activities, snacks and costumes reflect the bug theme (bug juice--green food coloring in apple cider, etc.).

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Hi,
Here's another name idea; Ghoul Drooled apples. Have fun at your festival.

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How about a play on the words girls and boys? Gouls and Boos (or Bats) Crunchy Yummies

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Ghouly Carmel Apples or Carmel Creatures?

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I have a recipe for caramel apples that I just had in my Pampered Chef October newsletter. Send me your email and I'll send you a copy. My email is ____@____.com.

I'll keep thinking of a name--I had one for my recipe and then I just went back to boring old Harvest Caramel Apples. I'll keep trying to think of one.

Have fun!

And Happy Anniversary! We're married 28 years this week! A great time to get married! :-)

L.

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how about caramel critter craniums? when i made caramel apples i followed the recipe on the back of the bag of caramels. it was a long time ago so i dont remember the brand of caramels, but i do remember that they stuck like crazy to the wax paper i set them on!! have fun!

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From what I have heard, you just melt the caramel--like the little squares---and dip the apples! But I think there are "kits" at grocery stores also.
I don't really understand, if it is a non-scary "harvest festival", why you need scary sounding names at all...but what about Caramel Scaramel Sticks? Or just Scaramel Apples?

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You can also buy caramel wraps for apples that take a lot less time. They are preformed caramel sheets that you wrap around the apple on a stick.

I like Scare-amel apples too

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E.,

I have a recipe- you make the caramel at home. I have used it 3 times, and have tweeked it accordingly. No unwrapping candy, and not as expensive. You do need a candy thermometer but I think you can buy them at the grocery store in the kitchen utensil isle.

Lay out several peices of wax paper. Get a container or two of of jimmies (oblong candy sprinkles) in halloween colors, and a paper plate.

Buy 19 yery small apples ...about 2.5 inches accross. I like Fuji or Red ( I usually find them in 3 lb or 5 lb bags.)
wash and dry them, and put sticks in.

In a VERY large pot, boil the following, stirring constantly until it reaches 229 degrees:
1 C corn syrup
1 C milk
2 C sugar
2 C condensed milk
1/2 C heavy cream

If you start to see the carmel form brown chunks, remove from heat immediately.It's done, or overdone.
Add 2 t vanilla. heat to 240 (but not if chunking.)The caramel will not be as smooth on the outside if it chunks, but it is certainly salvageable!( Sprinkling candy on the outside will cover any problems!)

Using two people:

Quickly, person 1 rolls apple in sauce (cover up to the stick).Tilt pot if you need to. Hand it to person 2, who holds the apple sideways over a paper plate and sprinkles the jimmies over it as they turn it. (Putting them also on the bottom helps keep the apple from sticking to wax paper or apple wrapper.) put it on wax paper. let them dry a few to several hours.
ps...if your caramel starts to get hard before you are done dipping apples, heat it again slightly until it is pliable.

Once dry, you can wrap these in the plastic, fold over type small sandwich bags- they fit perfect. Put the apple in the baggie. take a pair of scissors and cut the side of the flap so that the fold actually unfolds, and matches up with the rest of the baggie at the top of the apple. Gather the baggie toightly around the stick, and tie with a piece of curling ribbon. Put a heavy paper stock tag on it that says the name of the treat, or "Happy Halloween". To move large qtys of these I like to cut down a large cardboard box so that the sides are 3 or 4 inches high. (you can even cut carrying handle holes in two opposite sides.) Then I cover it with halloween contact paper. You can put in a bit of colored basket "grass" to keep them from shifting, or just pack them a little tighter.

Good luck!
G.