Toffee apples

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Good Table: Adventures In and Around My Kitchen

By Valentine Warner

Published 2013

  • About

Fireworks, bonfires, the rustle of autumn leaves, fairgrounds and scarves all deserve a toffee apple. You will need six chopsticks.

Ingredients

  • 6 small Cox’s apples
  • 250 g caster sugar
  • 100 ml

Method

Snap the stalks off each apple and ram a chopstick into the bottom of each, halfway up into the fruit. Lay a piece of baking paper on a flat work surface, then put the sugar with the water in a medium-sized saucepan over a medium heat and bring up to a brisk simmer. It’s essential that the pan is clean and there are no foreign bodies in the bottom of it, as the sugar will crystalise instead of