Michelle from
Spotted Rose is back today with a fun Autumnal treat for you all to try.
I am a big fan of Autumn, especially Halloween. It’s full of lovely baking, running through the autumn leaves, hot chocolate and toffee apples. They are a real childhood memory for me so I just HAD to try these for myself.
I was a little nervous because it means heating sugar to the right temperature, but these were really
fun to make! You don’t need a sugar thermometer either, there is a little test you can do, which i’ll explain. There are quite a few different recipes for these so I kind of adapted them all and made up my own.
Here’s what you will need:
Small apples (I don’t like biting into big ones, but use what you prefer)
Lolly sticks / paper straws
2 cups caster sugar
½ teaspoon white wine vinegar
Get the sticks ready first – I stamped my families names on some of the lolly sticks as a special little touch, you could add names or Halloween references !
Stick them into the bottom of the washed and dried apples.
I really wanted to try using paper straws in place of the sticks but they are quite flimsy, BUT by just
using the end of a circular ended teaspoon and sticking this in the bottom of an apple, it made a circular hole and they then fitted in perfectly.
Next to make the toffee, add the sugar and water to a pan and bring to the boil.
Then stir in the vinegar and syrup. Set a sugar thermometer in the pan and boil to 140C or the 'hard crack' stage as they call it. If you don’t have a thermometer you can test the toffee by dropping a little into a bowl of cold water. It should harden instantly and when removed be brittle and easy to break. If you can still squish the toffee, it’s not quite ready !
So, this is the fun bit – I decided to make my toffee apples a bit more ‘spooky’ and added some green food colouring and edible green glitter.
Then, very quickly dip the apples in the toffee, swirl them around and drip off any excess. I used some flower oasis to pop these in and keep them upright to dry.
I then added red colouring to the next ones ...
... and decided to add a little sugar witch and some green glitter !
But the below are my all time favourite ones – I have been dying to try the new edible gold spray from Dr Oktker and this was the perfect opportunity!!
Gold toffee apples – doesn’t get much better than that hey!
Why not package them up in cellophane and ribbon and give
them away as pressies!
If they aren't devoured first like mine were.
Thanks so much for reading & happy Autumn!
Michelle, x
Autumn is by far my favourite time of year. I am a person who loves being cosy, and snuggling up at home with my hubby and our cats is my favourite thing to do in the whole world. It is a time of year when for me work gets hectic so my home is the calm, soft, warm place I can retreat to when it all gets a bit crazy. It is a time I usually get to reflect on the year that, like so many before it, has gone by way too fast and dream of the plans I can make for the last few months of the year.
