How to Make Toffee Apples
I love making Toffee Apples, it’s great fun. It’s also quite dangerous (I’ve had many a burn on my arms…) so please be so very careful!! Although the recipe is easy – if you’re only a beginner cook – get some help for this one! For more great ideas on recipes for the School Fete, don’t forget to check out the Confectionery section!
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- The Bakers Confection (United States)
Method
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Push a stick into the middle of each apple from the top (ie place the stick where the apple was connected to the tree).
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Line two baking trays with baking paper.
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Place sugar and water into a heavy-based saucepan over low heat.
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Cook, stirring, until sugar has dissolved. Stop stirring.
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Bring to the boil.
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Using a wet pastry brush, brush away sugar crystals on sides of saucepan above syrup.
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Stir in cream of tartar and food colouring very carefully (it can spit!).
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Reduce heat to low.
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Simmer toffee for 20 minutes or until it reaches hard crack stage. To check if it has reached this stage, add 1 teaspoon of toffee to a glass of ice-cold water.
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Remove solidified toffee from water and bend it.
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The toffee should crack easily and not feel sticky.
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Once toffee is at this stage, remove from heat immediately.
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Wait until toffee stops bubbling then dip 1 apple into toffee.
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Tip pan on an angle to coat apple in toffee, especially around stick.
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Place onto prepared baking tray.
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Repeat with remaining apples.
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Allow to set at room temperature.
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Wrap in cellophane and tie with a pretty ribbon. Great for Fetes or birthday parties!
Recipe Hints and Tips:
- Toffee Apples are not suitable to freeze.
