Caramel Apples

Yesterday I did something a little ridiculous. I made caramel apples. With chocolate and pecans.

First I started with wonderful smelling green apples clean and dry AND room temperature.

Then I melted the 14-oz bag of Kraft caramels with 2 tablespoons of water over medium heat. The bag of caramels included five popsicle sticks, but I of course dropped two on the floor and had to use wooden skewers for two of the apples. I dipped the apples into the melted caramel, but it isn't that easy. So I used a spoon to help spoon it over the apples.

Oh and in case you were wondering what to do with the leftover caramel on the spoon, Little d and Little m have the perfect suggestion...

The directions on the bag say to put on greased wax paper, but next time I'll grease a cookie sheet, because they stuck to the wax paper and we had to pick it off the bottom. Following the directions I put them in the fridge for an hour. That's where the directions left off.

So my mom and I got creative. When I took the caramel apples out of the fridge, they were still sticky so mom pressed some chopped pecans into the caramel...

Then I melted some chocolate bark and spooned it over the apples. The chocolate didn't cover well because when it hit the still cold apples it began cooling. So I really had to spoon alot onto the apples to cover them. Finally I melted some white candy bark and put it in a piping bag to drizzle it over the apples. And then I thought they just didn't look finished so I did the same to the leftover chocolate bark and drizzled it over the apples to finish.

They turned out really delicious!

Good thing I only made five. I've already given away three!