Chocolate Apples

Ingredients:

12 Fuji or Large Granny Smith apple
12 lollipop or Skewer sticks
Melted dark chocolate
1/2 cup nuts
Waxed paper

Directions:

1. Insert sticks into apple cores.
2. Place apples into refrigerator while preparing chocolate.
3. Melt chocolate.
4. Pour melted chocolate into a metal bowl.
5. Dip apple into chocolate.
6. Puts Nuts (or other topping) into separate bowl and roll apple until covered in topping as desired.
7. Place decorated apple onto wax paper, standing upright.
8. Refrigerate for 15 minutes for a great chocolate apple.

For more excitement on your apple, you can add more decorative (white, stripes) chocolate covering after the first 15 minutes.

For a Caramel Chocolate Apple, do the following before dipping apples into chocolate (use one pound of caramel):

1. Heat caramel until it becomes liquid on stove top.
2. Dip or roll apple into hot caramel until coated.
3. Stand upright on waxed paper and let set for 15 to 20 minutes.