Apple pies made with red hots

What a cool idea! I never would have thought to use red hots in pie making! Have you noticed that red hots seem to be harder to find these days? I tried to find them for my holiday baking and had to search all over for them. I've kept my eyes out since that time and have noticed that they're pretty scarce.

There are a couple of ways but here is my favorite: 3/4 cup sugar 1/2 cup water 1/4 cup red hots about 5 cups sliced apples 1 T flour 1 tsp lemmon juice 1 T butter Combine first three ingredients and cook until candy is melted. Add apples and simmer untill apples are red. Drain the syrup from the apples and set aside. Spread apples in unbaked pie shell. blend flour and lemmon juice into syrup and pour syrup over apples Dot with butter, put on top crust and bake at 400 degree F for about 30 min. You can also use most any apple pie recipe and omit the cinnamon and sprinkle about a fourth of a cup of red hots over the apples before putting the top crust on. However, I think the flavor penetrates the apples better the first way. Hope this helps.

I have never heard of these before but thanks for asking I am going to try the recipes that the other myloters have posted. I love red hots and apple pie so it will be fun to try them together.