APPLE CARAMEL SAUCE, easy treat for kids, definitely NOT healthy

Everyone needs a treat now and again and this one is for Hallowe'en...

1st posted Nov 2017; updated Nov 2022

                    

Apple Caramel Sauce: Very Indulgent; much healthier than mass-produced
  'Like a taste explosion in my mouth. Possibly the best of your sweets' Taster

Apple Caramel Sauce* manages to be utterly, utterly yummy and healthier than normal, too.  It will please both kids and adults.      

Apple Caramel Sauce & nuts
on plain yoghurt

It is not meant to be consumed on its own but poured over other things: ice cream, yoghurt, porridge, pancakes, brownies, cake.  It's very rich and frankly a couple of tablespoons is more than enough for a portion. 

Fresh fruit and spices offset the sweetness, bumping up the health factor.  It's a wonderful amalgam of still-crisp cubes of fruit which softens the intensity of the caramel...in a good way.

It's worth shopping around for unwaxed apples (try Pomona Belsize Park) but if you can't find them, peel the apples.  

Cost: £2.50 (Nov. 2022)
Makes: 10-15 2tbsp portions; half this recipe is just right for Lockdowns. In normal times, recipe multiplies easily.

Ingred:
   3 crisp apples, peeled and in half inch/1cm dice
   1-2 tbsp butter
   1/2 tsp cinnamon 
   1/4 tsp nutmeg, freshly grated if poss but dried is fine
   juice of quarter of a lemon  

   scant 1 cup medium to dark brown sugar, lightly packed
   55gm/2oz unsalted butter
   1/2 cup cream
   1 tsp vanilla
   good pinch salt

Method:

1. In a med saucepan, combine sugar, butter, cream and vanilla; bring to a boil
2. Reduce heat to med, cook 8 mins, stirring frequently with a wire whisk
3. Take off heat, set aside 
4. Meanwhile put a large heavy bottomed pan on med heat; when hot, add butter; when melted, toss in peeled, diced apples
5. Stir 2-3 mins or until fruit is beginning to soften around the edges
6. Add cinnamon and nutmeg
7. Cook a minute or so until apples are nearly cooked but still crisp in the middle; take off heat, stir in lemon juice
8. Mix apples and caramel sauce; add more salt or lemon juice to taste
9. Store in clean covered jug in the fridge up to three days.
10. Serve over porridge, pancakes, brownies, cake, pies or ice cream, yoghurt 

Comments:
'The sauce is amazing; it's like a taste explosion on my mouth,  all creamy and fruity at once.  Possibly the best sweet of yours I've had.' Political Agent

* adapted from Bree Drummond, Pioneer Woman .

Please leave a Comment in the box below

         .

This recipe has  been developed by B M Lee/ Bright Sun Enterprises.  It may not be reproduced without the author's written permission