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    Home » Holiday Treats and Recipes » Halloween

    Chocolate Caramel Apple Cats

    Published: Oct 22, '11 · Modified: Sep 26, '17 · By: Beth · This post may contain affiliate links.

    What two things are better than caramel and chocolate? These adorable Chocolate Caramel Apple Cats are the purrfect dessert for your fun Halloween party!

    What two things are better than caramel and chocolate? These adorable Chocolate Caramel Apple Cats are the purrfect dessert for your fun Halloween party!

    It's less than one week from our Halloween party and I am crazy busy getting ready, but still have a few recipes that I wanted to share with you. For our parties I usually have lots of fun activities for the kids and this year I wanted them to be able to make an edible craft and these cats are it!  Sorry, no time for chit-chat, on to the recipe...

    What two things are better than caramel and chocolate? These adorable Chocolate Caramel Apple Cats are the purrfect dessert for your fun Halloween party!

    Chocolate Caramel Apple Cats

    Ingredients:

    6 large or up to 12 small caramel apples (homemade or store bought)
    14 ounces dark chocolate, finely chopped
    1 cup heavy whipping cream
    1 tablespoon light corn syrup

    Decorations:  click here for modeling chocolate recipes and tutorial

    1 recipe white modeling chocolate
    1 recipe dark modeling chocolate
    food coloring

         (I used yellow, neon pink, and neon green food coloring from the grocery store)

    Special Equipment Needed:

    food processor, optional (mixing bowl and whisk work just as well)
    Silpat non-stick liner, a non-stick baking sheet, or a piece of parchment paper
    small round and oval cookie cutters, optional

    Instructions:

    Make chocolate ganache: (if you prefer, you can use a tub of chocolate frosting)

    What two things are better than caramel and chocolate? These adorable Chocolate Caramel Apple Cats are the purrfect dessert for your fun Halloween party!

    Place chopped chocolate in the bowl of a food processor. Pulse until chocolate is fine crumbs.

    Heat heavy whipping cream and corn syrup in a small saucepan over medium heat. Stir often until it just comes to a boil. Pour the hot cream over the chocolate, put lid on the food processor bowl, and let sit for 2-3 minutes. Pulse for 5 seconds. Remove lid and scrape down the sides and bottom of the food processor bowl. Return lid and pulse for 5 more seconds or until the mixture, which is called ganache, is smooth. Dont' over-mix your ganache or it will turn grainy as it sets up.

    Note: A food processor makes easy work of creating a chocolate ganache. If you don't have one, finely chop your chocolate and put it in a microwave safe mixing bowl. Boil cream as above and pour over chocolate and let sit for 2-3 minutes. Use a whisk to create an emulsion. Begin by stirring just in the center of the bowl, then slowly bring the whisk out to the edge of the bowl. Stir just until combined and the ganache is smooth. If you have chunks of chocolate remaining, place entire bowl in microwave and heat on high for 10 seconds. Stir until melted.

    Trouble Shooting Ganache: If your ganache gets too hot the cocoa butter from the chocolate will separate and rise to the surface. The cocoa butter will harden as the ganache cools and you will have chunks of cocoa butter throughout. This can happen if you add cream that is too hot or get the ganache too hot in the microwave. If your ganache does separate or look oily, add a little cold whipping cream (a tablespoon at a time) and mix until smooth.

    What two things are better than caramel and chocolate? These adorable Chocolate Caramel Apple Cats are the purrfect dessert for your fun Halloween party!Allow your ganache to thicken just enough so that it is the consistency of frosting. Set your caramel apple on a Silpat, a non-stick baking sheet, or a piece of parchment paper.  If your caramel apples have a footer (a round bottom where the caramel has puddled) use a knife or kitchen shears to cut it off. Use your hands to round the bottom of the apple. This will ensure a nice round face for your cats. Now, you are ready to frost one of your caramel apples with the ganache.

    What two things are better than caramel and chocolate? These adorable Chocolate Caramel Apple Cats are the purrfect dessert for your fun Halloween party!

    Once each apple is frosted you'll want to create the cat's hair by pressing an offset spatula, knife, or spoon, onto the ganache and quickly pulling it away creating spikes. If the ganache is not thick enough, the spikes wont form, so let it sit for a few minutes to thicken.  If the ganache is too dry, the spikes will get crusty, so be sure to do one apple at a time.

    What two things are better than caramel and chocolate? These adorable Chocolate Caramel Apple Cats are the purrfect dessert for your fun Halloween party!

    You can make you modeling chocolate decorations in many different ways. I found it easiest to make the eyes by rolling out some modeling chocolate on a powder sugar dusted work surface and cutting them with small round cookie cutters, but you could easily just form a small ball and flatten it into a circle.  To create the nose and ears, I just formed a ball out of the modeling chocolate, shaped it into a triangle, and flattened it slightly. You can add some dimension to the cat's ears by adding a smaller triangle of pink or white to the larger black ear.  Attach pieces of modeling chocolate to each other by dabbing a very small amount of water on one piece and pressing them together.

    For the whiskers I cut long thin strips of white modeling chocolate, but you could just take small balls and roll them into thin logs. If you have a clay extruder, you can press some modeling chocolate through the small hole disc to create really perfect looking whiskers (see below.)

    What two things are better than caramel and chocolate? These adorable Chocolate Caramel Apple Cats are the purrfect dessert for your fun Halloween party!

    I use a Sculpey Clay Extruder to make a lot of decorative pieces out of modeling chocolate. The clay extruders can be found at your local craft stores in the clay isle. Of course, you'll want to buy one to exclusively use for modeling chocolate, but they are usually less than $15, so not a big investment for something you can use for so many different projects. To use, attach the metal disc with the appropriate hole (the one I used in this picture makes a flat strip, but for the whiskers you'll want to use the little holes), roll some modeling chocolate into a log, place it in the clay extruder tube, insert the plunger, and press the modeling chocolate out onto your work surface.

    What two things are better than caramel and chocolate? These adorable Chocolate Caramel Apple Cats are the purrfect dessert for your fun Halloween party!

    What two things are better than caramel and chocolate? These adorable Chocolate Caramel Apple Cats are the purrfect dessert for your fun Halloween party!

    I cannot wait to see how each kid at our party decides to decorate their cats.  Should be so much fun to see their designs.  If you plan to do this as an activity for your party, give each child a caramel apple, a small cup or bowl of chocolate ganache, and a small amount of each color modeling chocolate all on a Styrofoam plate.  They each need a plastic spoon to use to frost the apple and a paper towel for clean up. Then, just let them have fun.  If you want them to take their creations home, provide them with cellophane bags and some ribbon, otherwise they can eat their cats as dessert.

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    Hi, I'm Beth Jackson Klosterboer, a professional chocolatier & baker, cookbook author, and event planner. I love sharing recipes for happy occasions here on Hungry Happenings. I also create easy fudge recipes to share at HowToMakeEasyFudge.com, rice krispie treat recipes at HowToMakeCerealTreats.com, and easy cookie recipes at HowToMakeEasyCookies.com
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    1. happy wheels

      August 27, 2015 at 6:13 am

      Such a cutie idea. I wanna do this for my cousins' birthday party >.< Aww, they will like them much, maybe cannot eat cuz this cutie is too lovely

      Reply
      • Beth

        August 27, 2015 at 9:54 pm

        We made these at our Halloween party and some people did want to save them but most enjoyed eating them that night. They are really fun to make:) Enjoy.

        Reply
    2. happy wheels games

      May 27, 2015 at 3:01 am

      nice! thank you for sharing!

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    3. Anonymous

      October 09, 2012 at 1:52 pm

      These are fabulous! I'm a super duper busy working mom however and dont have a lot of time for all the extra work in preparing the icing and chocolate, wondering if there are alternatives for the whiskers, eyes and even the chocolate coating? 🙁

      Reply
      • Beth Jackson Klosterboer

        October 09, 2012 at 2:33 pm

        Hi, you can swap out chocolate frosting in a tub for the chocolate ganache and use candies like taffy, Tootsie Rolls, gumdrops and licorice laces for the decorations. Have fun!

        Reply
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      May 22, 2012 at 1:32 pm

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      • Beth Jackson Klosterboer

        May 22, 2012 at 1:57 pm

        There are a lot of steps to make these, but I had kids doing it at our Halloween party this year. They look so cute and taste great, so Paradise it is!

        Reply
    11. Y8 games

      January 19, 2012 at 3:33 am

      looks delicious,thanks for linking up

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    12. angry birds rio

      October 31, 2011 at 9:03 am

      So cute! thanks for sharing.

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    13. JDaniel4's Mom

      October 27, 2011 at 8:17 pm

      Please link this to my Halloween Traditions link up! I love it!

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    14. Crystal

      October 26, 2011 at 5:32 pm

      Oh my stinkin' heck. These are adorable.

      Thanks for linking up. I am sharing them over on Facebook.

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    15. Jocelyn

      October 26, 2011 at 1:52 pm

      Those are incredible and so super cute!!!! You are way talented!!!

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    16. Winnie

      October 26, 2011 at 12:58 pm

      These are sooooooooooooooooo cute and adorable!
      Wonderful creative work!:)
      and thanks for the tutorial

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    17. Hollie - TheSevenYearCottage

      October 25, 2011 at 11:14 am

      Love these... so clever!

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    18. Vanessa

      October 24, 2011 at 12:35 pm

      That is the most adorable thing I've seen! It's almost too cute to eat.

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    19. Jo and Sue

      October 23, 2011 at 11:17 pm

      So cute! Sue and I just did some sweets for a Halloween bake sale - I wish I had seen these first, I am sure they would have sold well! It's almost Halloween time - getting excited to make all the spooooooky treats and things we have been eyeing up all year. Thanks for all the great ideas!! (Here is the link to our blog about our bake sale Halloween treats :)) -- http://joandsue.blogspot.com/2011/10/halloween-sweets.html

      Reply
    20. Dorothy @ Crazy for Crust

      October 23, 2011 at 1:57 am

      This is so adorable and such a creative idea! I love it and am going to pin it for next year. 🙂

      Reply

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