caramel apples – Plum Joyful https://plumjoyful.com Fri, 21 Oct 2016 16:34:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.20 https://i2.wp.com/plumjoyful.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cropped-favorite.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 caramel apples – Plum Joyful https://plumjoyful.com 32 32 101224769 Paleo Caramel Apples : Dairy free, gluten free, refined sugar free https://plumjoyful.com/paleo-caramel-apples-dairy-free-gluten-free-refined-sugar-free/ Fri, 21 Oct 2016 07:00:26 +0000 http://plumjoyful.com/?p=1182 I LOVE caramel apples. Well really I love caramel, and I like apples. But something about the combination really works, and brings back many childhood memories. When I was a kid, on very special occasions, (mainly Halloween), my mom would buy these caramel discs that came on wax paper that you were meant to wrap around an apple to make caramel apples. I loved them so much I would generally just eat the discs straight off the paper before we could even get to making the apples. Hence my lifelong love of caramel began. When I went dairy free almost 15 years ago (Holy moly!), I mourned my beloved caramel. I could never find a dairy free alternative. About four years ago, while on an incredibly restricted diet to heal some autoimmune issues I was having, I discovered this caramel recipe out of sheer desperation. Necessity truly is the mother of invention. I NEEDED something that felt like a treat. I knew I could have coconut milk and I could have honey. I figured if cream and sugar made caramel, then couldn’t coconut milk and honey do the same thing? Luckily for me and for all of us it did! After a little […]

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