{"id":19013,"date":"2020-03-15T11:52:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T18:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/?p=19013"},"modified":"2020-03-15T11:52:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T18:52:23","slug":"candy-apples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/candy-apples\/","title":{"rendered":"Candy Apples"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>2 QT of water (about 3-4 inches deep)<\/li>\n<li>6-8 small apples<\/li>\n<li>Ideally, use chopsticks (joined &#8211; not yet broken apart) for handles<\/li>\n<li>15 oz (Karo) light corn syrup<\/li>\n<li>14 oz granulated sugar<\/li>\n<li>2\/3 C water<\/li>\n<li>Spice: Combine: 15-20 drops red food coloring, 1 tsp cinnamon, 1\/2 tsp cayenne pepper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>Bring large pot of water to a boil<\/li>\n<li>Clean Pink Lady or other small apples<\/li>\n<li>Remove stem from apple, and shove chopsticks into bottom of the apple<\/li>\n<li>Dip apples into boiling water for 10-15 seconds to remove the wax coating<\/li>\n<li>Wipe off most of the water and set aside<\/li>\n<li>Combine next three ingredients and bring up to 300\u00ba<br \/>\nThis is &#8220;hard crack&#8221; phase<\/li>\n<li>Add spice mixture to the sugar mixture and stir to combine<\/li>\n<li>Dip the apples in caramel and cool for at least 2 minutes<\/li>\n<li>Wrap in waxed paper, then in clear plastic wrap.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 QT of water (about 3-4 inches deep) 6-8 small apples Ideally, use chopsticks (joined &#8211; not yet broken apart) for handles 15 oz (Karo) light corn syrup 14 oz granulated sugar 2\/3 C water Spice: Combine: 15-20 drops red food coloring, 1 tsp cinnamon, 1\/2 tsp cayenne pepper Bring large pot of water to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/candy-apples\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Candy Apples&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grandpas-private-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19014,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19013\/revisions\/19014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grandpacooks.com\/recipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}