Apples, apples and apples.

Hi everyone!



Hope you all are doing well. ♥

On my last entry, I wrote that I was hooked on the candy apple I ate on the festival. I was hooked enough to try making it at home.

I love cooking experiments, but I have always avoided desserts that require baking and/or thermometers because 1) I don't have a good oven at home, and 2) I don't have a candy or any kind of thermometer for cooking. 

This recipe I adopted to make candy apples specifically said that a candy thermometer is needed. I went on kamikaze and decided to do it without candy thermometer anyway.

The result:

Couldn't help but putting on the shades we just really wanted to.

It looks perfect, but in reality:


TOO FUCKIN STICKY OMFG CANNOT.

I was sure that this failure must had something to do with temperature. Okay. I have dipped like 4 apples, and upon eating #1 and #2 I found out they were failed.

So I meticulously peeled the sugar off the apples, reheated it, and tried dipping again. But this time, I cut the apples into bite-sized pieces to avoid heartbreak (if, IF this one failed again).

Of course, it failed again.

This time, the sugar peeled off the apple:



Theoretically, on my first attempt, the sugar temperature was too low (so that it ended up sticky). On the second attempt, seemed like the temperature was too high. Also on the second attempt I quickly dipped the candies in cold water to harden the coating, but it ended up making the candy kind of watery.

Experiment Conclusion: Buy a candy thermometer. 

I was pretty down because I thought I failed but mom and Andro said it wasn't a really big blunder as how I thought it was ;w; Huhu thankchu.

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Since there were leftover apples and I was in Total Cooking Mode that day, I made this apple-cinnamon delight too:


(I didn't make the ice cream though)

The recipe was adopted from here, but minus the pumpkin. It ended up being a little too sweet; next time I would cut the sugar.

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Few days after, I also made this Apple Mint Tea:


The photo isn't appetizing at all huh. I should've poured it into a better-looking glass instead of this industrial can, haha.

Maybe in these days I'll make another batch again and post a more proper photo + recipe, because this is certainly good on a hot day (or any kind of day)! :)

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Take care everyone. <3