Apple Nachos . . .Thanks, Trudy!

The other day, while reading my friends blog, I saw her recipe for "apple nachos." It sounded so yummy and so easy. Since it's Fall, officially, I knew that I would "need" to make them . . .and it is ultra convenient that I already had all the ingredients at home!

Tonight, since the kids were home and Greg was gone, I whipped this up. Now, it wasn't in lieu of dinner, but it should have been! I only made 1/4 of the recipe and I cheated on some of the ingredients only for convenience sake! I'll share that at the end, but for now, here's the real deal, ala, Trudy!

Apple Nachos

36 caramels

1 TBSP water

30 large marshmallows

1/3 cup butter, cubed
4 medium tart apples, peeled and cut into 1/4″ slices
1/3 cup chopped dry roasted peanuts
1/3 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips
3 TBSP Halloween sprinkles

In a microwave safe bowl, melt caramels with the water; stir until smooth.

Meanwhile, in a large saucepan, melt marshmallows and butter. Arrange apple slices on a large platter. Drizzle with caramel; top with marshmallow mixture . Sprinkle with peanuts, chocolate chips and sprinkles. Serve immediately. Serves ? (Maybe only 1!)

Now, here's my alterations:

1 large apple (honeycrisp, of course! and I left the peel on)
pre-packaged caramel (the one in the little container). Just heated up a small bit until I could pour it
about 10 marshmallows
1 TBSP or less of butter (melted the m'mallows & butter in a microwave safe bowl, stopping often to stir)
about 1 TBSP of chocolate chips
and a sprinkle of dry roasted peanuts. Peanuts aren't a favorite of the kids . . . and I would have rather had chopped pecans, but was too lazy to get them out of the freezer!

This amount was PLENTY for the 3 of us.

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