![]() You might remember my talking about her book back when I used her fabulous French macaron recipe for my Lemon-Blueberry Macaron Delight Cake. In her incredible first book, SprinkleBakes: Dessert Recipes to Inspire Your Inner Artist, she shares a recipe for the most stunning and elegant Snow Apples (pure white candy apples with swirly sticks and white glitter!), so I followed her steps for creating the candy coating. Now, there are a bazillion candy apple recipes out there, but for the candy coating I used that of my dear friend, Heather. Tart, crisp, healthy and unsuspecting 80-calorie-apples. It's almost hard to imagine that under all of that shiny pastel coating and feathery cotton candy fluff, there sits these innocent green apples. Top that with a generous array of actual cotton candy and sprinkles, and whimsy prevails. The difference is that, in this case, we play with flavour by adding a cotton candy flavoured oil, and colour by whitening the coating and then adding a few drops of other colours to create a swirl effect. A Pastel Swirl Cotton Candy Apple is an almost-traditional candy apple in the sense that it's a fresh apple on a stick, dipped and coated in a sugar mixture that's brought to the hard-crack stage. Much like with the cake technique, I love that each apple becomes a one-of-a-kind, and that you can create a completely different look by simply using different colours. (This is actually one of several sweets I envisioned, so I hope to share a few more.) For the swirly effect, I looked to one of my favourite colour-schemes found in the Pastel Swirl Cake I shared this past summer. ![]() When I was reflecting on what I find most spooky (and yet most enchanting), my mind kept wandering to the world of the vintage carnival-the world of strange whimsy and a balance of mad and wonderful. This recipe isn't really spooky at all! I had serious intentions of making a super-eery Halloween-inspired confection, but here's the thing: in my world, Halloween isn't necessarily filled with orange, black, witches and ghosts, but rather two small girly cakelets masquerading as fairies and quirky princesses with ensembles slightly askew. ![]()
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