Hi I am Stephanie Mary from My Tiny Laguna Kitchen.
I am here with Mountain Rose Herbs and we are making bite-sized caramel apples and the caramel
is going to be plant-based. All right, so all we need for this recipe is we're going to use dates,
coconut oil, maple syrup, a little bit of lemon juice, mesquite, a little bit of maca, and sea salt.
And that's going to be the base for our caramel. So I'm just going to start with about 10 to 12 dates.
And the main equipment that you're going to need is a food processor.
I'm going to add in the coconut oil,
the maple syrup,
and about a half teaspoon of lemon juice.
So right now it's really sticky. I'm just going to add a little bit more maple syrup to get it
a little bit more runny so that it can stick onto our apples really nicely.
Now I'm just going to go ahead and add the mesquite
powder
and just a little sprinkle of maca which will also add a really nice caramely flavor
and you get the extra benefits from using maca.
Okay yes, this is the exact consistency that I want once I have the spoon.
You stick it in the caramel and once it can easily run off without it getting too gooey or liquidy.
Perfect. All right, so now all you need is a melon baller and
you're gonna take the melon baller and scoop
out little bite-size apples. Right here I have cold water with a bit of lemon juice.
That's going to help keep the apples from browning while we cut out the rest of them.
This is going to give us perfectly bite-sized caramel apples. When we do a whole apple, it
can be a little tricky eating the whole caramel apple. So this will give us just the perfect bites.
All right we're just going to put toothpicks to prepare them for dipping.
So a nice way to get the caramel to stick is to put the whole apple bite
into the caramel and fold using a spoon or a spatula, anything that you have on hand,
and just covering that the apple itself. And then from the bottom up
pull up the apple, set it on parchment paper. Right here you can keep the apples as they are
or you can go through and pick any toppings. We'll go through the toppings in the next step
and show you all the options we have on hand. So for our toppings
we are doing a handful of ingredients but you can use whatever you have at home. But we are going to
be using Mountain Rose Herbs cacao nibs. We're also going to be using ground-up pumpkin seeds,
hemp seeds from Mountain Rose Herbs, coconut flakes also from Mountain Rose Herbs, goji berries,
You can also put any edible flowers that you love to use. We're going to use
rose petals and then also cornflower,
and then last but not least, we have some little
sauces that we're going drizzle on. This is a melted cacao wafer and cranberry powder,
and as another option, we're going to be using matcha powder with cacao wafers
just also melted down. And we can drizzle that just for some other festive colors.
So let's start with our cacao nibs.
These are going to add a really nice crunch
when you bite into them.
It's gonna be a hefty one.
Oh the rose petals are so pretty!
And now we're going to add the cranberry drizzle.
So pretty.
And if these don't set up right away at room temperature, go ahead and just pop them in
the fridge and they're going to solidify due to the cacao and the coconut oil.
But you can absolutely enjoy them right away as well.
And then last but not least, we're going to go ahead and add the matcha
drizzle. That's a nice green beautiful color.
Okay you can see that the cranberry is already starting to solidify at room temperature,
so that's beautiful. Exactly what we're looking for.
And now you have perfectly bite-sized caramel with cranberry and matcha drizzle.