These bacon wrapped apples with salted caramel sauce are sweet and salty and the perfect finger food for your next party or get together!
We go all out for game day down in my neck of the woods.
Seriously.
Sometimes the food is more important than the game…
Or at least more enjoyable, depending on your team.
So when it’s time for some seriously satisfying finger foods, I whip up these bacon wrapped apples with salted caramel sauce.
Apples and caramel are a perfect combination. They’re always a winner, regardless of the score.
If you’re ready to up your game time appetizer game, grab your apron and let’s make some magic!
Bacon Wrapped Apples
Ingredients
- 1 pound bacon
- 2 large apples (sweet apples are best, honeycrisp are pictured)
Salted Caramel Dipping Sauce
- 2 sticks butter (½ pound)
- 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- ½ teaspoon lemon juice
- ½ cup heavy cream
- ¼ cup kosher or sea salt (not fine) + more for sprinkling
The sauce needs to sit and thicken up a bit, so let’s make that first.
Grab a medium saucepan. Now toss in the butter, brown sugar, lemon juice, and salt.
Put that over medium heat. As the butter starts to melt, start whisking. Continue to whisk frequently until all the butter is melted, the sauce is smooth, and the mixture comes to a very slight boil.
Reduce the heat to low and whisk in the heavy cream.
For about another two minutes, whisk continuously until the sauce has thickened up.
Remove the pan from the heat and allow the sauce to cool.
While the sauce cools down, let’s wrap some apples!
Preheat your oven to 450°F.
Grab a large, rimmed baking sheet. You can line the pan with parchment paper if you want to. That definitely helps with clean up!
If you have them, place a wire rack in the baking sheet. This keeps the apples out of all that bacon grease that will collect in the bottom of the pan. But it’s not a deal breaker if you don’t have any.
Wash your apples well. You can peel the apples if you want to, but it’s not necessary.
Cut each apple into 12 to 16 pieces, depending on how big they are.
Take your pound of bacon and cut the slices in half.
Grab one of those half strips of bacon and an apple slice, and wrap the bacon around the apple. You can secure it with a toothpick if you need to.
Place the wrapped apple on the prepared baking tray.
Continue wrapping until you run out of apple slices or bacon.
After all the apples are wrapped, slide that baking sheet into your preheated oven.
These little guys are going to bake for about 25-30 minutes or until the bacon is crispy. If you aren’t using a rack in your pan, you’ll need to turn them over about half way through.
When the bacon is nice and crisp, remove from the oven. Put the apples on some paper towels to absorb any excess grease.
These are best served warm. Place them on a platter with a bowl of sauce. Sprinkle some coarse salt over the sauce and serve with toothpicks for dipping. Or simply pour some sauce over the apples, sprinkle with salt, and serve with a fork or spoon.
Whether you choose to dunk or drizzle, this easy appetizer recipe is sure to score with friends and family!
More appetizer recipes you should try:
Bacon Wrapped Apples with Salted Caramel Dipping Sauce
Ingredients
Bacon Wrapped Apples
- 1 pound bacon
- 2 large apples sweet apples are best, honeycrisp are pictured
Salted Caramel Dipping Sauce
- 2 sticks butter ½ pound
- 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- ½ teaspoon lemon juice
- ½ cup heavy cream
- ¼ cup kosher or sea salt not fine + more for sprinkling
Instructions
Sauce Instructions
- The sauce needs to sit and thicken up a bit, so let’s make that first.
- Grab a medium saucepan. Now toss in the butter, brown sugar, lemon juice, and salt.
- Put that over medium heat. As the butter starts to melt, start whisking. Continue to whisk frequently until all the butter is melted, the sauce is smooth, and the mixture comes to a very slight boil.
- Reduce the heat to low and whisk in the heavy cream.
- For about another two minutes, whisk continuously until the sauce has thickened up.
- Remove the pan from the heat and allow the sauce to cool.
- While the sauce cools down, let’s wrap some apples!
Bacon Wrapped Apples Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 450°F.
- Grab a large, rimmed baking sheet. You can line the pan with parchment paper if you want to. That definitely helps with clean up!
- If you have them, place a wire rack in the baking sheet. This keeps the apples out of all that bacon grease that will collect in the bottom of the pan. But it’s not a deal breaker if you don’t have any.
- Wash your apples well. You can peel the apples if you want to, but it’s not necessary.
- Cut each apple into 12 to 16 pieces, depending on how big they are.
- Take your pound of bacon and cut the slices in half.
- Grab one of those half strips of bacon and an apple slice, and wrap the bacon around the apple. You can secure it with a toothpick if you need to.
- Place the wrapped apple on the prepared baking tray.
- Continue wrapping until you run out of apple slices or bacon.
- After all the apples are wrapped, slide that baking sheet into your preheated oven.
- These little guys are going to bake for about 25-30 minutes or until the bacon is crispy. If you aren’t using a rack in your pan, you’ll need to turn them over about half way through.
- When the bacon is nice and crisp, remove from the oven. Put the apples on some paper towels to absorb any excess grease.