This is hardly a recipe and more of a combination that happens to taste extremely good if you use the right ingredients. They may not look like much, but they have been devoured very quickly at gatherings where I have served them as hor d'oeuvres.

The apples MUST be organic or locally grown, as non organic tend to be quite dry. Select an apple that you would use for a regular taffy apple. Sweet, but not too sweet.

Mejdool dates are also an important choice, they are very sweet, and even chewy like caramel when you refrigerate them. Sorry for the extra notes, but it's important!

CUT the apples into medium pieces, around 1"/1" on average.

Remove the pits from the Dates and cut them in 4 pieces.

Simply connect a piece of date to a piece of apple with a tooth pick. When the date piece is slightly smaller than the apple piece you pin it to, that works best but don't worry too much about it really.

Put these healthy hor d'oeuvres on a plate and serve.

That's it! Simple, yet the combination is great, very similar to a caramel apple in fact.