Salty Sweet Caramel Apples

                              Happy Halloween

My tenth recipe for October is the delicious Salty Sweet Caramel Apples. Children love helping out making them and love helping eat them as well. It's always a good thing when you can get your kids to eat an apple.

Here is the list of ingredients that you need to make the Caramel Apples.

6 Granny Smith apples

6 wooden sticks

1 (14 ounce) package individually wrapped caramels, unwrapped

2 tablespoons water

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 1/2 tablespoons coarse sea salt

1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

And here is how you put it all together for the great Halloween treat.

1. Insert wooden sticks 3/4 of the way into the stem end of each apple. Place apples on a cookie sheet covered with lightly greased aluminum foil.
2. Combine caramels and water in a saucepan over low heat. Cook, stirring often, until caramel melts and is smooth. Stir in the vanilla. Dip each apple into the caramel and gently run apples around insides of saucepan to scrape off some of the caramel. Scrape excess caramel from the apple bottoms using the side of the saucepan. Place on the aluminum foil. Sprinkle lightly with the coarse salt and chill.
3. Put the chocolate chips in a microwave-safe bowl. Cook in the microwave for 30 second intervals, stirring between each, until melted and smooth. Drizzle over the apples and return them to the refrigerator until ready to serve.