Or, so I am told. The whole not eating fruit thing makes me about the last person who should post about a fruit based treat, so I am going on the recommendations of my husband and daughter. I wanted to make these for preschool graduation, but the original attempt completly flopped.
The idea was to do a carmel apple, so I googled it, watched an episode on Food Network, and looked at dozens of recipes. And I learned something: cooking is not like sewing. You can't just combine a bunch of ideas and have it turn out. At least I can't. I am now a by the recipe kind of girl.
That wasn't the end of my stuggles. I didn't have a 'melon baller', so I picked one up at the grocery store. (Again, my lack of expertese with fruit would have been helpful here.) Well, about 10 apple balls into the project, it broke. You don't really need the handle, but it certainly helps. Then the caramel only kind of stuck to the apple, because it usually sticks to the skin of an apple, I ran out of sprinkles, and in the end the caramel stuck better to the paper wrappers than the apples. It leaves such a funny looking apple at the end :)
Bound an determined to make this recipe work, I just cut up an apple and tried it with the melted peanut butter chips suggested by the recipe. Remember: I'm a recipe follower now and again without a 'mellon baller'. They aren't as cute at the round ones, but my daughter ate them happily.
The melted chips are much more kid friendly, too. They don't have to be as hot as the caramel.
I am hoping to do more fun ideas like this during the summer.
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