A Little History
 
The Daffy Apple™ Company and Daffy Apple product line was founded in Illinois in 1951 by George Leslie Smith. George moved Daffy Apple to Denver in the early 1950's. Up to the early 1970's, the Daffy Apple caramel apples were made by hand at various Daffy Apple franchises across the country. There are and never have been other owners or founders of the Daffy Apple company or Daffy Apple brand name besides George Smith. For more trademark information Click here

Originally, the sticks were inserted into the apples one at a time by a couple of people at a stick inserting machine. The skewered apples were then taken to a dipping machine where they were dipped in caramel and rolled through our secret crunch. The coated confections were then packaged one at a time by hand.

In the late 60's, Jim Hanifin of Orange County California purchased a franchise for the Orange County area. Mr. Hanifin was so successful running the Southern California Daffy Apple Franchise, George Smith sold the entire Daffy Apple franchise system and rights to Mr. Hanifin. Daffy Apple was eventually sold back to George Smith in Denver.
In the early 1970's, Richard Bovey acquired the Daffy Apple franchise system and the rights to the trademark of Daffy Apple from the heirs of George Smith. After a year of making the caramel apples by hand, Mr. Bovey created and patented a high speed caramel apple machine and other packaging machinery which greatly increased production. Mr. Bovey's machinery was recently modernized again and the factory is now capable of making over 35,000 caramel apples in an eight hour period without compromising the original Daffy Apple characteristics.

Today, Daffy Apple Corp is owned and operated by Phillip Kellogg of Denver, Colorado. Mr. Kellogg has operated the company since 1995 after purchasing the company from his uncle, Richard Schutt. Daffy Apple has grown from just a caramel apple company to a bulk producer of caramel products, all natural caramel popcorn snacks.

Daffy Apple is a major manufacturer of caramel apples primarily serving the retail grocery industry. We also market our apples through our own factory store and at our online store at www.daffyapple.com. During the last few years Daffy Apple caramel apples have also become a very popular wedding favor treat. We have references and referrals from various wedding planning web sites, which give us high marks for a dependable, delicious and affordable caramel apples. Daffy Apple also produces bulk caramel for the carnival and concession industries and personal use. Our secret caramel recipe makes an excellent addition to a concessionaire's caramel apple offerings.

We frequently receive requests from former residents of Colorado asking us to ship them a case of our special caramel apples. They say they have never tasted another caramel apple as delicious and fresh as ours. We take great pride in our caramel recipe.  Our formula for caramel has not changed since 1953 when the recipe was developed. The candy is slowly cooked, batch by delectable batch, in both our vintage copper kettles and new high capacity copper kettles by skilled candy makers.

We also receive a large number of requests throughout the year for caramel apples as wedding favors. Daffy Apples as wedding favors materialized over the last couple of years. We hadn't realized this was a common use for caramel apples, but every year, more brides-to-be inquire about our caramel apples as wedding favors. If you are interested in Daffy Apples for your wedding, more information is located here: Wedding Favors