Scary Salted Caramel Apples

A big thank you to Urban Accents for providing their Spooktacular Halloween Party line to try for myself & for one to giveaway to a lucky reader. All opinions expressed below are my own.

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I have to admit that for years the thought of trying to make homemade caramel apples at home sort of scared me. Fresh apples covered in gooey caramel seems easy enough, but it is the actual caramel making part of it that left me hesitant. I am sort of candy making challenged. ;) So when Urban Accents reached out to me to try their new Scary Salted Caramel Apple Kit, I was all for it. A kit that took most of the caramel apple making guesswork out of the equation? Yes, please! Sign me up.

It just so happens that I have a lot of apples from our apple picking adventure weekend before last that I need to put to tasty use soon, so I set to work right away whipping up these easy and delicious salted caramel apples. The kit includes the caramel mix, the wooden sticks, and sea salt for sprinkling. You just need to pick up a few ingredients from the grocery store to make these Scary Salted Caramel Apples happen in your kitchen...

Salted Caramel Almond & Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies

As a Blue Diamond Tastemakers blogger, I am sharing with you all this recipe for soft & thick Salted Caramel Almond & Chocolate Chip Oatmeal Cookies. This post is sponsored by Blue Diamond Almonds.

I have to admit that when a little package from Blue Diamond showed up in the mail a couple of weeks ago I was pretty excited. You see, I knew that they were sending me a container of their Salted Caramel Almonds. Salted Caramel, folks. I have pretty much had a thing for salted caramel since the first time I tried salted caramel ice cream from a pretty well-known local ice cream shop in Ohio years ago. If it has anything to do with salted caramel, then count me enthusiastically in. ;)

While I think that these Blue Diamond Salted Caramel Almonds are perfectly delicious straight from the can, I knew that I wanted to bake with them. It has been a good while since I have shared a homemade cookie recipe with you all, so I thought why not a soft & hearty oatmeal cookie chock full of these crunchy Salted Caramel Almonds? And just to take them slightly over the top, I threw in some mini chocolate chips for good measure...