![]() I made a cute dish to place the apples on before I wrapped them in cellophane.Ĭlick here to check them out the “ Sparkling Charm: You’ve Been Poisoned Bowls. Best eaten within 12 hours.Īt this point they are ready to eat or wrap for delivery. Once the apples have dried and hardened, Place them on a cupcake wrapper. Leave a bit of green showing to create a contrast. Hold the coated apple above the pan and let the excess syrup drip off. Place the apple on the parchment paper and quickly move the the next apple. ![]() ![]() Working quickly, tilt the pan to the side and dip each apple into the mixture, twirling to coat the entire apple. remove it from the heat. Let the candy cool for a few seconds and stir quickly to break up the bubbles for a smooth finish. This will prevent sugar crystals from forming. Avoid stirring once the mixture has come to a boil. When the mixture reached 290☏. Continuously brush down the sides of the pot with water using the basting brush. Turn the heat to a medium-high temperature and stir constantly until the mixture comes to a boil. (You may choose to use a bit less for a lighter purple.) Dip the apples in the sugar syrup to coat and allow the excess to drip off. ![]() Boil the sugar mixture until hard crack stage (300F on a candy thermometer) Color by adding a few drops of food dye, stir. Stir the sugar, corn syrup and water together in a saucepan. Insert the bling or wooden sticks into the center of each apple. Attach a candy thermometer to the side of the medium saucepan.Ĭombine the sugar, water, and corn syrup into a medium saucepan. Add 1 teaspoon of violet gel icing color into the saucepan and still well. Insert the sticks into the stem end of the apple. The DKNY Delicious Candy Apple Ripe Raspberry, Sweet Caramel and Juicy Berry fragrances are limited edition, and are $55 each for 50 ml Eau de Parfum.Place a sheet of parchment paper on a cookie sheet and place next to stove to receive apples after dipping. It smells like it could be a cheap knock-off of Delicious Night. Verdict: Easily my least favorite of the three. If you've ever smelled a single variation on blackberry musk, you already know this story and you've heard it told better elsewhere. The dry down is the darkest of the three fragrances, but also the blandest, and I have a hard time thinking of anything to say about it except "berries" and "wood" and "musk". Verdict: Sweet Caramel is arguably the most fun of the three, and if you're really after candy, this one is your best bet.ĭKNY Delicious Juicy Berry Candy Apple (purple bottle notes of currants, lychee, pear, blackberry, rose, apple blossom and sandalwood) opens sweet, fruity and strong, but from the start, the fruit is layered over assertive wood notes, so it doesn't come across as fresh (Ripe Raspberry) or candied (Sweet Caramel). Most of the caramel hit me in the opening (and thankfully, a whisper of something like melting plastic was short lived), but the woody-musky dry down retains a vanillic warmth, and the floral notes, while mostly indistinct, have more of a presence here than they do in the Ripe Raspberry. Wearable and worth a shot if you're after some variation on fresh apple for spring or summer.ĭKNY Delicious Sweet Caramel Candy Apple (green bottle notes of apples, pears, marshmallow, jasmine, lily of the valley, violet leaves, caramel and vanilla) is much sweeter than the Ripe Raspberry, especially in the top notes, where lots of pear mingles with lots of sugary candy - this is the only one of the three that comes even close to being as sweet as you might have guessed (or feared) after watching the fun, but cavity-inducing commercial. Verdict: My favorite of the three, but still nothing terribly exciting. I'm not sure I would have recognized the "cola accord" in the base (and mind you, you get there after about 15 minutes) as "cola", but whatever it is, it's sort of fun, and if they want my vote, I say that the next series of Delicious flankers should be based on popular soda flavors. A nice shot of citrus in the opening keeps it from being too sweet while the raspberry calms, and overall, Ripe Raspberry strikes me as more fresh than candied. So I suppose you should take the following with an even larger grain of salt than usual?ĭKNY Delicious Ripe Raspberry Candy Apple (red bottle, shown below with notes of apple, lime, peony, lily and cola accord) is not as berry-ish as I'd expected - there's much less berry than in Delicious Night, although this fragrance also has a much paler, fresher base so there's less to counteract what berry there is. Apologies to its fans, but the original is not a favorite of mine, and of the flankers, only Delicious Night really captured my attention - and even that one is not really something I would wear. Donna Karan's fresh apple fragrance, DKNY Be Delicious (2004), has spawned a multitude of flankers and collector editions, of which the Candy Apple Trio - Ripe Raspberry, Sweet Caramel and Juicy Berry - is the latest.
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