Well I have just made some toffee apples for the tree planting tomorrow. I hope they will taste okay. I googled for recipes, and found loads of different ones, here is my own one - made up as a kind of average from all the other ones I found.
Ingredients
This is supposed to be for 9 apples. Obviously it depends on the size of the apples. I found it did about 12 small apples with some toffee left over.
- 500g sugar (White or Brown or Demerara, it doesn't seem to matter)
- 150ml water
- 40g butter
- 4tbsp golden Syrup
- 1tsp vinegar
- Toffee apple sticks / skewers / chopsticks / or even those long coffee stirrers like the ones from Starbucks
- You'll want some baking paper too, to put the apples on.
What to do
Before you start, wash the apples, twist off the stalks, and skewer them with your sticks.
Boiling the mixturePour the water into a nice big saucepan along with the sugar. Start boiling and stirring until the sugar is all dissolved. Add the butter, vinegar, golden syrup and bring to the boil. Boil for about 10-15 minutes without stirring.
Place a drop of the mixture into a glass of cold water; if the mixture solidifies into a ball straight way, then it is ready.
Turn off the heat, tilt the pan, and rotate an apple in the liquid toffee. Place apple on baking paper and leave to cool. That's it!
Any leftover?
If you have leftover toffee, pour into a baking-paper-lined tin and make your own toffee sweets. Score/cut the toffee with a sharp knife before it's completely cooled. If you wait until it's dry, it will just crack.
Warning
Be careful! The mixture gets very very hot. I did a lot of these apples, and on the 15th one, some mixture dripped from the apple onto my finger. It was agony!!! It still hurts now. Don't do it!
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