Caramel Apple Pop Wedding Bar
What you’ll need:
Apples
Wooden skewer
Sucker sticks
Caramel
Candies, mini marshmallows, and other goodies
Canned heat or other warming setup
Long table
Imagine the money that you’ll save when you set up a bar at your wedding reception so that others can create their own desserts and treats. You won’t need an expensive chef; you won’t spend a fortune on foods from a bakery. Have the guests make their own desserts and you won’t offend them a bit. They’ll love the idea of having tasty desserts that are carefully designed to make each person feel special. And, if your wedding is in the fall, you can’t choose a more tempting bar than a caramel apple bar. With each apple being a pop, the making of it isn’t messy, and each guest can choose the exact candies and goodies to put on it.
Now that you’ve said “no” to the chef and the bakery, you can make the apple pops in very little time, and set the bar up on the day of the wedding reception. Buy the type of apples that you like – green or red – and wash them thoroughly. Core each apple and then cut it into fourths.
Use a wooden skewer and push it into the apple. Remove it and push a sucker stick in. Do that to each apple to turn them all into pops. The skewer has a pointed end, making it easy to push through the apple, but a skewer offers only a skinny stick to hold, so use a sucker stick. When all of the apple quarters have been turned into pops you’re ready to set up the bar.
Put out melted caramel, of course, and keep it warm by using canned heat or another setup. It’s pertinent that the caramel remain very warm or it will begin to harden. After each guest dips an apple pop there should be assorted candies and goodies for covering the caramel apples. Some tasty treats include mini chocolate chips, candy sprinkles, mini marshmallows, crushed pretzels, chocolate frosting, and chopped nuts. Put each food in a roomy bowl and put a spoon in it.
Set out small, disposable plates, and let guests use them to coat the apples. First, the apple pop is dipped into the melted caramel, and is then put on one of the plates. The guest can walk down the length of the bar, spooning this and that onto the plate, and can actually dip the apple in it after the plate is loaded, or as they walk along.
A caramel apple bar is the ideal treat bar at a wedding – no matter what time of year – but is just as loved at a holiday celebration or other event. It fits in with a country theme, a simplistic wedding, a candy theme, an orchard theme, and many others.
