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<\/p>\nIs there anything that says Halloween more than caramel apples? There is now. These healthy cinnamon-spiced caramel apple cake pops are my new favorite Halloween treat.<\/p>\n
And when I say healthy, I mean healthy. These guys have all the delicious flavors you’d expect from a combination of caramel apples and cake pops… but absolutely nothing unrefined or processed. We’re using whole grains, natural sweeteners, and a brilliant two-ingredient caramel sauce. You could almost eat the entire batch yourself and not feel too guilty about it. Almost.<\/p>\n
As you can see by the length of this post, it is a little more involved than my typical recipe and that’s just the nature of cake pops; you have to make a cake, a caramel sauce, cinnamon apples, and then assemble everything together. But most of the steps can be done simultaneously and it shouldn’t take more than an hour from start to finish. Trust me; it’s a labor of love and the end result is totally worth the effort. <\/p>\n
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Makes 9 cake pops<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n If you’ve never made cake pops before, the process is pretty simple. First you bake a cake, then you crumble the cake and mix with icing so that the cake can be rolled into balls. Then, the cake balls are added to sticks and dipped in icing or a candy coating. We’re doing the same process here, except dramatically healthified – the cake will be mixed with a cinnamon apple mixture and the icing will be a healthy two-ingredient caramel sauce.<\/p>\n To make cake pops we, of course, need a cake! You can use any basic white cake recipe you’d like for this, or, you can follow this recipe, adapted from VeganBaking.net<\/a> for a simple, light, fluffy whole-wheat cake:<\/p>\n Preheat the oven to 350\u00ba F.<\/p>\n *Note: date sugar is simply ground up dates and it doesn’t dissolve like sugar. It would normally be a cardinal sin to use it in baking, but it works quite well in this recipe. The cake isn’t sweet, but that’s by design. We’ll be mixing it with naturally sweet apples and caramel sauce later. But if you’d prefer to use “real” sugar like Sucanat or turbinado, go ahead. <\/em><\/p>\n Caramel is typically butter and sugar melted together into a candy-like consistency. It’s really, really unhealthy… but I bet you didn’t know you can make a rich and delicious caramel sauce with just two ingredients: coconut milk and dates. Here’s how…<\/p>\n You will probably have leftover caramel sauce after making the cake pops, but it keeps well for several days and I’m sure you won’t have any problems finding another use for it. \ud83d\ude42 A topping for One Ingredient Ice Cream<\/a> wouldn’t be a bad option…<\/p>\n With the cake cooked and cooled, and the caramel ready to go, let’s put everything together:<\/p>\n Is there anything that says Halloween more than caramel apples? There is now. These healthy cinnamon-spiced caramel apple cake pops are my new favorite Halloween treat. And when I say… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[19,17],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneingredientchef.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneingredientchef.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneingredientchef.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneingredientchef.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneingredientchef.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oneingredientchef.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneingredientchef.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oneingredientchef.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneingredientchef.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oneingredientchef.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\nCake Pop Ingredients:<\/h4>\n
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Part One: The Cake<\/h4>\n
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Part Two: The Two-Ingredient Caramel<\/h4>\n
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Part Three: The Assembly<\/h4>\n
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