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Toffee Apples

35 minutes
Difficulty Easy
6 Ingredients

A Treat for the Kids

Ingredients

12 Small Granny Smith Apples
4 Cups Caster Sugar
1 tpsn white vinegar
1 Cup Water
1 tsp Red food colouring
Paddle pop sticks

Method

Wash and dry the apples and shove in paddle pop sticks into the middle of each apple. Make sure the paddle pop stick is wedged in securely.
Combine the 4 cups sugar, 1 tsp vinegar and 1 cup of water in a small heavy based pot and bring to the boil
Stir in the food colouring and leave the syrup to simmer for about 20mins until temperature reaches 150C or until a small amount of syrup dropped into cold water reaches crack stage – it should set hard and be hard to crack with fingers.
Remove the pot from the heat and stand in a baking dish of water until the mixture stops bubbling. When the mixture has stopped boiling, hold an apple by its stick, dip into the syrup, tilt the pan (and the apple) till the whole apple is covered.
Place toffee coated apples on baking paper and leave to harden.

104 Comments
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- - mom103778 said
  - 17 Sep 2020
    8:32 am
I cannot remember the last time I had a toffee apple. They do look easy enough to make.

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- - Zmijka86 said
  - 16 Sep 2020
    8:42 pm
Yummy. Thank you for sharing

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- - Frankiielot said
  - 16 Sep 2020
    8:09 pm
Yum! I loved these so much as a kid.
I never knew they had vinegar as an ingredient in them though.
Thank you for sharing.

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- - mom111059 said
  - 30 Jun 2020
    10:00 pm
An oldie but a goodie. Thank you.

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- - taynik46 said
  - 28 Jan 2018
    8:49 am
oh I loved these as a kid – not so sure I would feed them to my girls now though lol!

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- - mom101628 said
  - 16 Dec 2017
    10:38 pm
Always wondered how to make them, but my kids love eating apples as is.
- Ellen replied
  
  17 Sep 2020 , 7:38 am
  Yes, luckily mine too !
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- - Ellen said
  - 01 Nov 2017
    7:49 am
I rather eat a normal apple 🙂

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- - Rachell88 said
  - 31 Oct 2017
    3:35 pm
I’ve always loved toffee apples. I had no idea they were so simple to make. Can’t wait to try these.

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- - mom83217 said
  - 31 Oct 2017
    1:48 pm
And if you get rude children at your door you could use onions instead of apples. LOL !

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- - ella12 said
  - 24 Oct 2017
    12:08 pm
I used to love these as a teenager.

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- - tessie said
  - 23 Oct 2017
    11:23 am
This brings back many happy memories

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- - rachel1970 said
  - 21 Oct 2017
    5:29 am
a good old classic

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- - mom112217 said
  - 20 Oct 2017
    10:31 am
A good recipe for Halloween and one for young and old to enjoy!

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- - mom90758 said
  - 19 Oct 2017
    6:13 pm
They look delicious! I don’t remember having ever eaten them!!

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- - rovermum said
  - 19 Oct 2017
    5:05 pm
Ooh, I remember these from my childhood. You would finally crack through the delicious toffee to eat the crappiest apples!!! I think back now how bad these were for our teeth. But regularly, when we visited the Green Grocer, we got to buy a green or red toffee apple.

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- - coastalkaryn said
  - 22 Jan 2017
    7:22 pm
oh my gosh, what a flashback to my happy childhood, thanks for the recipe

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- - mom19782016 said
  - 23 Jan 2016
    6:29 am
I’ve never thought of making my own toffee apples – what a great idea.

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- - mom62624 said
  - 22 Jan 2016
    8:51 am
Thanks for sharing; wonderful!.

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- - dannsbuild said
  - 24 Sep 2015
    12:31 am
Great looking! A great really looking recipe! Thank you so much for sharing this!

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- - Kell said
  - 21 Jun 2015
    3:18 pm
Flash back to being a happy 7 year old

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