This creates a harder caramel that is easier to transport but more difficult to eat.

it has become increasingly popular to decorate caramel apples for holidays like Halloween.

Methods used to do this include applying sugar or salt to softened caramel, dipping cooled, hardened apples in white or milk chocolate, or painting designs onto finished caramel apples with white chocolate colored with food coloring.

Hunter's Candy in Moscow, Idaho began selling caramel apples in 1936.

During World War II, these apples were shipped overseas to soldiers in Korea, Japan, and England.