Cider-Bourbon-Glazed Apples

Ingredients:

• 4 tbs water
• 1 ½ cups sugar
• 2 cups apple cider
• ¼ cup bourbon (Buffalo Trace or Old Rip Van Winkle)
• 2 each vanilla beans
• 4-6 Granny Smith or Honeycrisp apples

Bring sugar and water to a medium caramel and deglaze with apple cider and bourbon. Add vanilla beans and bring back to a boil. Cool. Peel the apples. Using a melon-baller, make spheres out of the apples. Cook apple spheres in hot syrup on low-medium until a knife pierces with no resistance. Reserve the apples in the liquid, but strain to serve. Serve apples very warm.