Fancy caramel apples begin with premium Granny Smith apples at their peak of flavor.We fully enrobe each crunchy-crisp tart apple with a thick coat of warm, buttery caramel.
If I feel like I should be virtuous then I usually just eat a Granny Smith apple sliced with a cup of peanut butter and I don't like that oily, separated, good-for-you peanut butter.
And then that it's got that classic saucy apple pie filling and using the granny Smith apples, you've got that balance of sweet and tart and it's just a party in your mouth.
Now a lot of people prefer Granny Smith for baking but my mom is actually allergic to Granny Smith apples so I pretty much just never bake with them just to be safe.
So there's a lot of varieties of apples out there, and it might be tempting to just grab whatever you have on hand, but when it comes to apple pie, there's a reason why Granny Smith apples are always used.