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Toffee apples

By: Roopa Gulati

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Prep time:
20 min
Cook time:
20 min
Serves:
6

Taste nostalgic childhood memories with Roopa Gulati's traditional toffee-coated apples.

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    Ingredients

    For the toffee coating

    • 225 g demerara sugar
    • 110 ml water
    • 0.5 tsp vinegar
    • 2 tbsp golden syrup
    • 25 g butter

    For the apples

    • 6 apples
    • 6 wooden skewers, for holding the apples – ice lolly sticks will do
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    Method

    1. Dissolve the sugar in the water over a moderate heat. When it has dissolved, stir in the vinegar, syrup and butter. Bring to a boil and cook without stirring until it reaches hard-crack stage (138C) or hardens into a ball when dropped in a jug of cold water. This should take around 10 minutes boiling time.

    2. While the syrup is cooking, pierce each apple with a wooden stick. Once the toffee is ready, dip each apple into the hot toffee, turning it around in the syrup so that each one is fully coated.

    3. Leave to harden on a lightly oiled tray before serving. If you're planning to keep them for a day or two, wrap the apples in cellophane.


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    sorry, misread that - the tip was for ClaireH

    spacer HelenJ75603  Posted 31 Oct 2011 4:39 PM
     

    Hi RickB,
    I've not tried these myself yet (planning on doing some tonight!) but I read in another recipe that you need to get the wax off the apples first or the toffee won't stick. The other recipe recommended leaving them in a bowl of warm water or scrubbing under the tap. Might be worth giving that a go!
    Helliepeg

    spacer HelenJ75603  Posted 31 Oct 2011 4:38 PM
     

    Hi. Great easy first timers toffee apple receipe this one. Easy to follow and works first time with no practice (even for a dad like me!). I used caster sugar as didnt have the other kind.Just make sure to keep dripping some of the mix in a bowl of cold water to see when its ready. You'll know as it really does get hard. If its not hard then its not ready. If you still struggling to keep the toffee on the apple spin the toffee apple around in the bowl of cold water to help it set quicker.
    Thanks for this one, will keep the kiddies happy tomorrow night

    spacer RickB62885  Posted 30 Oct 2011 9:42 PM
     

    Hi there
    I tried this recipe with Cox's apples but could not get the toffee to stay on the apples (blanched the apples too, tried putting the toffee on hot and then slightly cooled but no joy) - am I missing something?
    Many thanks.

    spacer ClaireH77388 Posted 29 Oct 2011 7:43 PM
     

    umm yummy!

    spacer JamesG25556 Posted 12 Oct 2011 8:57 PM
     

    Just made these for 'Halloween' tommorrow (yes I know it's August, but we are running through the holiday year in a week to keep Summer Holiday boredom at bay), anyway, the toffee apples have turned out great. I have got a sugar thermometer somewhere at the back of the cupboard so I used the jug and cold water method to gauge the heat, the added bonus of this is that I get to eat the toffee as it goes through the soft caramel to firm caramel stages (and it is really, really tasty). By far the best toffee apple recipe that I have come across.

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