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Learn how to add color and a satisfying crunch to delicious, juicy apples with this easy recipe for Candied Apples! You won’t believe how good these red candy apples taste. Make a whole batch in just 30 minutes!

red candied apple slices with a knifered candied apple slices with a knife

Best Candy Apple Recipe

With fall being right around the corner, it’s time to start planning on making all your favorite fall treats! These sweet and shiny red candy apples are definitely going to be at the top of my list this year.

They are the perfect combination of tart and sweet, with a crunch! Homemade candy apples are like a super-sized lollipop with real, fresh fruit on the inside, coated in homemade sugar candy. And, they’re ready in only 30 minutes!

My family loves this recipe for candied apples – I know yours will, too!

red candied apples on a grey background

red candied apples on a grey background

Candied Apples FAQs

What are candied apples?

Candied apples are a whole apple with a thin, hardened sugar coating on the outside of each one. You can customize the coloring of each apple coating by using different food coloring.

What apples are used for candied apples?

When making candied apples make sure to choose a crisp, sweet apple. Some of the best options are gala, fuji, or honey crisp. Or, if you’re a tan of tart apples, give a granny smith apple a try!

Candied Apples Recipe Ingredients

  • Apples
  • White sugar
  • Light corn syrup
  • Water
  • Food coloring
  • Edible glitter (optional)

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How to Make Candy Apples

  1. Prepare a baking sheet by lining it with parchment paper, and then spraying it with cooking spray. This will help prevent any of the hardened candy from sticking. Place apples into a pot of boiling water, and boil for 10 seconds each. This step is to get the waxy coating off of the apples.boiling apples for candied apples recipeboiling apples for candied apples recipe
  2. After 10 seconds, remove apples from the boiling water and place them into an ice bath for 2 minutes. removing apples from boiling water for candied apples reciperemoving apples from boiling water for candied apples recipe
  3. Remove from the ice bath and dry the apples.drying apples off for candied apples recipedrying apples off for candied apples recipe
  4. Insert a wooden stick into the top of each apple, pushing about halfway through. Set aside.placing a stick halfway through apples for candied applesplacing a stick halfway through apples for candied apples
  5. Using a medium-sized pot over medium-high heat, add in sugar and light corn syrup, and mix well.combining sugar and light corn syrup for candied apples inside a potcombining sugar and light corn syrup for candied apples inside a pot
  6. Add in water and give it a good mixing again.mixing water into our candy mixture for candied applesmixing water into our candy mixture for candied apples
  7. Insert your candy thermometer

    and continue to boil until the temperature reaches between 300 and 310℉, this will take about 10-15 minutes. Immediately remove from heat!letting candy mixture for candied apples bubbleletting candy mixture for candied apples bubble

  8. Working very quickly and carefully, the pot and the coating are extremely hot! Add in the food coloring and edible glitter (optional). Mix well. mixing food coloring into candy mixture for candied applesmixing food coloring into candy mixture for candied apples
  9. Coat each apple in the candy mixture and transfer to the prepared baking sheet. Let candied apples chill for 5 minutes.dipping apples into candy mixture for candied applesdipping apples into candy mixture for candied apples
  10. Serve and enjoy! 

Candy Apples Recipe Tips

  • Cut your apples: While it’s quite impossible to bite into a candy apple, I like to easily cut them up into candied apple slices to help preserve your teeth.
  • Customize the color: Use different food coloring for a different look! Blue, purple, or green – the ideas are endless.
  • Keep the sugar coating thin: After several attempts, a thin shell-like coating is best for candied apples vs a thick candy coating.

red candied apples being cut in half with a knifered candied apples being cut in half with a knife

Storing Candied Apples

If you have any leftover candied apples, they can easily be stored in the refrigerator for up to 3 days! Store in a tall, airtight container to ensure the sugar stays as crisp as possible.

Best Apple Recipes

Also, try my Candied Strawberries!

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How to Make Candied Apples

Isabel Laessig

Learn how to add color and a satisfying crunch to delicious juicy apples with this easy recipe for Candied Apples. You won’t believe how good these red candy apples taste!

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Prep Time

10

mins

Cook Time

20

mins

Total Time

30

mins

Course

Dessert

Cuisine

American

Servings

10

candied apples

Calories

345

kcal

Equipment

  • Candy thermometer

    – THIS IS IMPORTANT! A candy thermometer must be used for this recipe.

  • Wooden sticks

  • Pot

  • 1 Baking sheet

Ingredients

  

  • 10

    apples

  • 2

    cups

    white sugar

  • 1

    cup

    light corn syrup

  • 1½

    cup

    water

  • 6

    drops

    red food coloring

  • 1

    teaspoon

    edible glitter

    optional

Cooking Conversions

See our Cooking Conversions Chart for help converting measurements!

Instructions

 

  • Prepare a baking sheet by lining it with parchment paper, and then spraying it with cooking spray. This will help prevent any of the hardened candy from sticking. Place apples into a pot of boiling water, and boil for 10 seconds each. This step is to get the waxy coating off of the apples.

    10 apples

    boiling apples for candied apples recipeboiling apples for candied apples recipe

  • After 10 seconds, remove apples from the boiling water and place them into an ice bath for 2 minutes.

    10 apples

    removing apples from boiling water for candied apples reciperemoving apples from boiling water for candied apples recipe

  • Remove from the ice bath and dry the apples.

    10 apples

    drying apples off for candied apples recipedrying apples off for candied apples recipe

  • Insert a wooden stick into the top of each apple, pushing about halfway through. Set aside.

    10 apples

    placing a stick halfway through apples for candied applesplacing a stick halfway through apples for candied apples

  • Using a medium sized pot over medium-high heat, add in sugar and light corn syrup, and mix well.

    2 cups white sugar,

    1 cup light corn syrup

    combining sugar and light corn syrup for candied apples inside a potcombining sugar and light corn syrup for candied apples inside a pot

  • Add in water and give it a good mixing again.

    1½ cup water

    mixing water into our candy mixture for candied applesmixing water into our candy mixture for candied apples

  • Insert your candy thermometer and continue to boil until the temperature reaches between 300 and 310, this will take about 10-15 minutes. Immediately remove from heat!

    letting candy mixture for candied apples bubbleletting candy mixture for candied apples bubble

  • Working very quickly and carefully – the pot and the coating is extremely hot! Add in the food coloring and edible glitter (optional). Mix well.

    6 drops red food coloring,

    1 teaspoon edible glitter

    mixing food coloring into candy mixture for candied applesmixing food coloring into candy mixture for candied apples

  • Coat each apple in the candy mixture and transfer to the prepared baking sheet. Let candied apples chill for 5 minutes.

    dipping apples into candy mixture for candied applesdipping apples into candy mixture for candied apples

  • Serve and enjoy!

    red candied apples being cut in half with a knifered candied apples being cut in half with a knife

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Notes

  • Cut your apples: While it’s quite impossible to bite into a candy apple, I like to easily cut them up into candied apple slices to help preserve your teeth.
  • Customize the color: Use different food coloring for a different look! Blue, purple, or green – the ideas are endless.
  • Keep the sugar coating thin: After several attempts, a thin shell-like coating is best for candied apples vs a thick candy coating.

Nutrition

Serving:

1

apple

Calories:

345

kcal

Carbohydrates:

91

g

Protein:

0.5

g

Fat:

1

g

Saturated Fat:

0.1

g

Polyunsaturated Fat:

0.1

g

Monounsaturated Fat:

0.01

g

Sodium:

25

mg

Potassium:

196

mg

Fiber:

4

g

Sugar:

85

g

Vitamin A:

98

IU

Vitamin C:

8

mg

Calcium:

17

mg

Iron:

0.2

mg

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