Rocky Road Caramel Apples

This is a great recipe. One thing to remember: Apples may have a waxy coating on them that keeps the caramel from sticking very well. Rolling your apples in boiling water very quickly will melt that waxy residue and the caramel sticks to the apple! How bout that? :)

I had to make some changes to get the toppings to stay put. I referred to the caramel apple recipe submitted by Suzie. First, use chilled apples. Then melt your caramels with 2 tbsp. milk in the microwave for 2 minutes, stirring halfway through. I let my melted caramels sit for about a minute before dipping the apples. The toppings stayed perfectly in place. I hope this helps!

I made these a couple of times, and had the same problem with the caramel sliding down to the bottom of the apple. The taste was good, but they looked awful. I wondered if it had something to do with the caramel, so I did a search and found this recipe for homemade caramel: http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Chewy-Caramel/Detail.aspx Sure enough, the caramel stayed on fine -no sliding off the apple. The caramel is also unbelievably delicious! My family has not stopped talking about them, and my younger sister keeps asking me to make them again (I've made them 2x now). It's so easy I'm happy to oblige! In terms of time, it doesn't take any longer to make homemade caramel than it does using individually wrapped caramels. I originally made a double recipe, and it must have taken me a good 20 minutes just to unwrap all those caramels.

PLEASE NOTE! The caramel slides down the apple because it is coated in wax. You need to dip the apple into a pan of boiled water for 10 seconds or so and then wipe the wax off with a paper towel. You may notice some of the white wax while you are wiping. If you fail to do this, the caramel will indeed slide off. If you want to drizzle chocolate on these, I suggest getting a plastic Wilton candymaking bottle, they are usually only $1-$2. Melt the chocolate in the bottle or put the already melted chocolate into it and you will have more control of the chocolate. Good recipe, but I prefer mine with different coatings/toppings. I hope this helps. The caramel sliding off is not the recipes fault, so I don't think it is fair to rate this recipe according to that problem.

These tasted great and get 4.5 stars for that. however, they didn't look pretty. after i dipped my apples in the caramel and got the excess caramel off i rolled it in the nuts but once i sat them down. the caramel and nuts slid to the bottom of the apple. so i ended up with a pile of caramel nut goo around the bottom. I was planning on giving these to co-workers for halloween, but not now.

I haven't eaten them yet but they look great. Let me make a suggestion, please. Having never made caramel apples before, I didn't realize this, but I'm glad I learned and can share with others. When you drop the apples in the boiling water ever so briefly, you really have to dry them immediately. Here is what happened to me. I dropped an apple at a time into the boiling water. Then I pulled each one out and let it sit on the towel. However, by the time I went to dry all 6 (after all were dipped) the wax was still there. So I put them all back in and made the mistake of leaving them in too long. The boiling water changed the color and consistency. It started the cooking process very quickly. Be careful.

I had my son make these with explicit instructions to pop the apples in boiling water to remove wax as pr previous reviews. Well, he forgot this step and they were an absolute disaster with the caramel in a giant puddle underneath the apples. So I scrubbed off the caramel and started again. I dipped the apples in boiling water for ten seconds and dried them well. Then I placed them in the freezer so they were chilled. I remade the caramel using the chewy caramel recipe from this site [easier than all that unwrapping]. I made sure the temperature was around 200 when I dipped the apples. They could not have been more perfect and everyone loved them. Moral of the story, read the reviews before you make a new recipe!!!

Good, but I had problems with the caramel and toppings sliding off the apples, too. I found this tip on the internet that says to melt the caramel in a 4 cup glass measuring cup in the microwave, then let it cool to about 170 degrees. Place a folded dish towel in a skillet and place the glass measuring cup on top of the towel, place the skillet on a burner set on low. This keeps it at the correct temperature while dipping. Dip an apple, turn in upside down for a few seconds to help set the caramel. Immediately roll it in the toppings. Works great!

Excellent! I dipped the apples in caramel and drizzled with the melted chocolate. I skipped the "rocky road" part. The kids loved them. They sold out at the bake sale in minutes!

Great! I made these for my daughter's preschool Halloween party and they LOVED them! The other mom's were teasing me that I must be Martha Stewart because they looked so good. I think that chilling the apples first and working quickly with caramel was very important. I also threw each apple into the fridge as soon as I had applied the toppings. I will definetly make these again!

I tried the caramel that JLeigh suggested, it was wonderful, coated the apples evenly and easy to make. I suggest using that if you want them to look and taste perfect!

I made these for my kids for Valentines Day, and they loved them. What I did differently was use a double boiler to melt the caramel, which may be a bit quicker, with milk instead of water. I also used organic apples, they don't have the wax on them so the caramel does not slide off, also when drizzling the chocolate on them, use a teaspoon and shake it back and forth a bit fast over the apples, so the choc. will kind of string off onto them.

I made these. They were to die for.It came out excellent.Caramel I melted in a regular pot very slowly and to keep the caramel in place I boiled hot water in pot and just dipped my apples in there for a few seconds to remove the wax build up.Making sure I dried them off with paper towel. First time making these fancy apples everybody loved them. Will be making them again

this did not work. I warn you, DO NOT MIX THE PECANS WITH THE MARSHMELLOWS. The marshmellows melted and when I rolled the apples in the mixture, it just took all the carmel of... this is really embarrassing, my apples are sitting on a tray, all the toppings sliding off and just little traces of carmel on the apples. :(

delicious!

These apples were fantastic!!! I followed the suggestion of others and placed the apples in boiling water for 30 seconds or so, then wiped off the wax, then put them in the fridge to cool. The caramel stayed on perfectly! The toppings were a bit heavy and slid though, so I would try to "mush" them into the caramel a bit more for next time rather than simply rolling to get the toppings to stick.

I had a very hard time getting the chocolate to "drizzle"....I have done that before, yet today, it wasn't happening....The caramel was fine, dipped the apples fine, rolled them in the almonds instead of pecans and marshmellos....I didn't like how the marshmellos weren't sticking to the caramel very well....I will probably do this again, but not today;0)

This recipe needs to be taken down and replaced with one of the caramel recipes the other members replaced. If you don't read the comments first you won't find out that this will result in a complete disaster of caramel pooled at the bottom of your apple, no matter how long you chill it.

I had the same problem as everyone else. The caramel slid to the bottom of the apples. Yes, they were still good, but not able to give them away cause they looked awful. Next time will try the other caramel recipes that others have posted!

We made these with some friends for halloween and all the adults immediately returned to the carefree days of childhood.

The same thing happened to me. Mine look ugly. But after all the work, I brouht them into the office party anyway. Everything slid to the bottom. And I discovered I have no idea how to drizzle chocolate. It's in giant clumps all over the apples. I hope my co-workers can get past how ugly they look. I would have liked some tips in the recipe.