These are so cute! I haven't made these for a good twenty five years so when a friend asked me if I could make her some for her gorgeous rosey-cheeked-baby-girl for her first birthday how could I say no? Well I just couldn't and of course I didn't!
I have grand memories of eating toffee apples at school fetes and I figure we could all use a good recipe because with P&C/P&F and PTA's all ready to reconvene here at schools around the country (ours convenes tonight) there's bound to be a fundraising stall - be it cake stall or full blown carnival... so here's an idea for you!
Some extra tips: don't make these if it's humid - toffee is temperamental in humidity. Secondly as soon as you've covered your toffee apples, have a patty-pan or two on standby, fill those and then put your saucepan straight in hot soapy water to avoid sticky-toffee-saucepan :)
Ingredients:
12 small to medium red apples (I used gala)
3 cups white sugar
3 tb glucose syrup
1 cup water
1 tsp red food colouring
Method:
Mix your sugar, glucose syrup, water and food colouring in a saucepan - with a sugar thermometer (only about $5-6 at homeware stores) stir it to combine.
Whilst that simmers away - grease a baking tray and also put some chilled water (I used a mini-freezer block to keep it cold) on an assembly line somewhere you can put your hot saucepan (so if you can't put it on your surface find a trivet or wooden chopping board etc)
When it starts to boil, don't stir anymore, just watch it boil - and when it gets to 295 degrees c - remove from the heat and put on your assembly line.
Then dip your apples - if you need to tilt your apple to make sure it gets covered well, twist to distribute the toffee evenly.
Then dip it in your cold water saucepan/bowl - and then rest on your greased tray.
Wait until completely set before wrapping in cellophane and ribbon!
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4 lovely comments:
My mother always told me the bought ones used old or bruised apples so this automatically has an advantage!
Oh I used to love these when I was small! Could you use blue colouring too? Would it still turn out blue?(my son is obsessed with blue!)
Lisa, you could do blue but I would do it on a granny smith apple....?
So the icewater dip stops the toffee pooling down the bottom?
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