Bacon-Pretzel-Peanut Butter Caramel Apples

• 8 wooden craft sticks
• 8 small apples
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup light-colored corn syrup
• 1/4 cup water
• 1 cup half-and-half
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 2 bacon slices, cooked and crumbled
• 2 ounces crushed pretzels
• 2 1/2 tablespoons creamy peanut butter

1. Push a wooden craft stick into the top of each apple. Bring sugar, corn syrup, and water to a boil in a medium, heavy saucepan, stirring until sugar dissolves. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Cook, without stirring, 9 minutes or until lightly golden (about 260u0b0). Stir half-and-half, vanilla, and salt into caramel. Simmer until candy thermometer registers 235u0b0, stirring frequently.
2. Combine cooked and crumbled bacon and crushed pretzels in a bowl.
3. Stir peanut butter into caramel; pour mixture into a bowl sitting in a hot water bath. Swirl bottom halves of apples in caramel; dip in pretzel mixture.

craft, apples, sugar, lightcolored corn syrup, water, vanilla, salt, bacon, pretzels, peanut butter

Taken from www.myrecipes.com/recipe/bacon-pretzel-caramel-apples (may not work)