Recipe: Butterscotch Walnut Apples on Sticks

BUTTERSCOTCH WALNUT APPLES ON STICKS

6 medium apples
6 wooden sticks
1 cup sugar
1 cup light corn syrup
1 cup half-and-half
2 tbsp butter or margarine
Few grains of salt
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
18 walnut halves

Wash and dry apples: insert wooden sticks.

Combine sugar, corn syrup and half-and-half in large saucepan. Cook rapidly, stirring constantly, to 245 degrees F (firm ball stage.) Remove from heat at once. Stir in butter, salt and vanilla.

Dip apples quickly. Garnish each apple with a trio of walnut halves placed evenly around stick.

Makes 6 apples
From: Sharon, WI
Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Newspaper