Candied Apples are the best Halloween treat. During the early 2oth century, candied apples were handed out to trick-or-treaters. Go back to a simpler time with this great recipe. Instead of using cinnamon and red food coloring, this recipe calls for the candy Red Hots. It gives the candied Apples a little extra kick. The recipe calls for Red Delicious Apples because of their mildly sweet taste, but you can experiment with different varieties  of apples such as McIntosh, Granny Smith, and pippin.

While Candied Apples don’t sound like the best health choice, they are low in fat and high in fiber, vitamins A and C, and flavonoid quercetin (a natural antioxidant). It makes this treat better than candy you buy in the store.

Ingredients:

• Cooking spray
• 8  (4-ounce) Red Delicious apples, stemmed
• 1  cup  sugar
• 1/3  cup  light-colored corn syrup
• 1/3  cup  water
• 1/3  cup  cinnamon decorator candies (such as Red Hots)

Directions:

1. Line a large baking sheet with foil, and coat with cooking spray. Insert 1 (6-inch) white dowel into stem end of each apple.
2. Combine sugar, corn syrup, water, and candies in a small heavy saucepan over medium heat. Cook until sugar dissolves, stirring occasionally. Cook, without stirring, until a candy thermometer registers 300° (about 8 minutes). Remove from heat.
3. Working with 1 apple at a time, holding apple by its dowel, dip in syrup, tilting pan to cover apple. Turn apple quickly to coat evenly with syrup; let excess syrup drip back into pan. Place apple, dowel side up, on prepared baking sheet to harden (about 5 minutes).

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