Apple candied apples

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare all the ingredients. If possible, it is better to use your homemade apples from the garden, but you can also buy them. You can choose any apples, but it's better that they are stronger. Ordinary sugar can be replaced with cane sugar if desired. Lemon juice can also be replaced with 1/4 teaspoon of citric acid.

2. Step 2:

   

   Rinse fresh apples thoroughly under water, wipe with a towel and, without peeling, cut into the pieces that you want more: circles, cubes, slices, thin slices. In this case, it is necessary to cut out the seed pods so that you do not come across the bones while eating.

3. Step 3:

   

   If you want to prepare candied fruits for decorating cakes, pastries, pastries, then you should slice the apples together with the seed pod.

4. Step 4:

   

   Prepare sugar syrup. Pour water into a saucepan, add granulated sugar and add lemon juice. Put the pan on the fire and bring the syrup to a boil, then boil it for another 5-7 minutes.

6. Step 5:

   

   When the syrup is boiled, put the apple blanks in it, reduce the heat to a minimum and cook the apples over low heat for 5 minutes. Then remove the pan from the heat and let the syrup cool completely at room temperature. It will take 3-4 hours.

7. Step 6:

   

   The cooking-cooling procedure should be repeated 4-5 times. When the future candied fruits go through all the stages of cooking and cooling, the apple blanks will become transparent, but at the same time they will retain their elasticity. They should not fall apart. Put the apple blanks tested in syrup into a colander and let the excess syrup drain. It will take another 2 hours.

8. Step 7:

   

   Cover the baking sheet with baking paper and put the apple blanks on it in one layer. Put a baking tray with apples in a preheated oven to 100oC and dry the candied fruits for 2-2.5 hours. Then transfer the candied fruits to a new baking paper, turning them over with the other side, and continue to dry in the oven at the same temperature for another 2-2.5 hours.