Has any one ever had a hot cinnamon candy apple?

Thanks for the reminder....I haven't had these for yrs. and need to make them.What Fun!!!

Cinnamon Apples

8 wooden ice-cream-bar sticks

8 small Red Delicious apples, washed and dreid

1 cup water

3 cups sugar

1/2 cup light corn syrup

1/4 cup red-hot candies

1/2 t red food colouring

Insert a wooden stick part way through stem end of apples. Grease large cookie sheet, set aside.

In 2 quart heavy saucepan, combine remaining ingredients. Over medium heat, heat mixutre to boiling

without stirring. With brush dipped in hot water, occasionally brush sugar from sides of pan. Boil, without

stirring, until candy thermometer reaches 290F, or when a little of mixture droped into cold water

separates into thin, hard threads, about 20 minutes. Remove syrup from heat, dip pot bottom briefly in

cold water to arrest cooking. Tip saucepan; swirl each apple in mixture to coat. Place apples on cookie

sheet to cool. Work quickly before syrup hardens. Cool 1 hour before serving.

RED CANDIED APPLES

10-12 pointed wooden skewers

10-12 medium apples

3 Cups sugar

1/4 t cream of tartar

2/3 cup water

1 t lemon juice

15 whole cloves (or 1 teaspoon vanilla)

1 or 2 t red food coloring

Stick skewers in stem end of apples securely. Combine sugar, cream of tartar, water lemon juice &

cloves in heavy saucepan. Stir until sugar dissolves. Add food color. Without stirring, cook to 300 on

candy thermometer (hard crack stage). Removet. Quickly skim out cloves. (Stir in vanilla if using).

Twist apples in syrup. Set on buttered cookie sheet to harden. Notes: Use small, deep saucepan. Don't

let apples touch when drying. Make them the day they will be used. Use draft-free part of kitchen.

I used to eat them a lot when I was a kid. There was a KarmelKorn candy shop at the mall and they made them. Turned your mouth very red and the candy coating was really hard and crunchy but I loved them. I loved all things cinnamon: Red Hots, Hot Tamales and cinnamon flavored toothpicks. I was recently talking to friends about the cinnamon apples and they had never heard of them. I don't know of anyone is still making them which is probably much better for my teeth anyway.