Jack Skellington Apples

And here it is!  My first official "project post"!

We do several projects throughout the week, but this week I am going to share Vince's favorite.  Our skeleton caramel apples!  Vince is the snack person at school this week (and that is a HUGE deal :)!) and when I asked him what he wanted to bring he requested these way more labor intensive than bags of goldfish fun and delicious apples we made for a birthday party last year.  Here is what they look like:

And here is how we made them...
Supplies:
5 clean, preferably organic, medium sized apples
1 bag of caramel bits (you can use caramel squares, but you have to unwrap those!)
1 bag of white melting chips (we used girahdelli)
1 container of black icing or bag of black melting chips
5 sticks
roll of parchment of wax paper
optional:
5 treat bags (I just use foldover sandwich bags because they are cheap)
ribbon
gift tags

Directions:
1.  Jam the sticks into the tops of the apples.  Make sure they are secure.  (My 5 year old LOVED doing this!)

2.  Melt the caramel accoding to the directions on the package  (make sure to melt the caramel in something that is bigger than the apples)

3.  holding the sticks, dunk the apples into the melted caramel until completely covered.  Place the caramel covered apple on the wax or parchment paper to cool.

4.  After the apples are completely cool (about 4 hours) begin melting the white chips according to package directions.

5.  Dip the carameled apples into the white candy melt.  Place on a separate sheet of wax or parchment paper to cool.

6.  Once the apples are completely cooled and hardened (we left ours overnight), decorate with the black icing or candy melts.  This is a step I did minus kiddos because I am a little too particular...

7.  Let the icing harden and either wrap in treat bags (like we did, with plastic spider rings to top them off), or cut them up and enjoy!  If you have no fear of mess, let the kids eat them off the stick.  My 2 year old, thought that was AMAZING!  He was a sticky, hot mess afterward though!

So there is our project for the week.  The faces I did were inspired by Jack Skellington from The Nightmare Before Christmas.  The boys had fun and they turned out pretty well.  Not perfect, but not too bad either!