What a treat! This “Aftershock” apple from DeBrito, a NIBBLE Top Pick Of The Week, is covered in
homemade caramel corn, roasted almonds and peanuts, and Guittard chocolate. DeBrito apples are too good to save for Halloween—we enjoy them all year long. Photo by Melody Lan.
Candy apples are known by an assortment of names: candied apples, toffee apples, taffy apples, caramel candied apples, lollipop apples and whatever you may call them that isn’t on this list. While typically a children’s treat, artisan confectioners have created such wonderful gourmet apples using the finest quality chocolate and homemade caramel (and amazing apples!) that the most discerning adult can’t resist them. In the past, the apple had to have a stick in order to be called a candy apple (and who would wish to hand-dip an apple into boiling candy coating without a long stick to hold?). Some of today’s gourmet apples are dipped by their stems into more user-friendly melted chocolate—no stick required. Take this quiz to learn about this wonderful fusion of candy and fruit.