Happy bonfire night! I hope you’ve had a good evening. I spent the night sat on a hill wrapped up in my winter woollies, watching the fireworks and drinking hot chocolate. Yum! To get in the mood for bonfires and sparklers, I made some toffee apples, and here’s how I did it.
Ingredients: 500g sugar, 5 tablespoons of golden syrup, and some apples!
Step 1: Put the golden syrup and sugar in a pan on a medium heat with 100ml of water, and stir regularly.
Step 2: Whilst the sugar and syrup are dissolving, dip the apples in a pan of boiling water to make them less waxy (this makes the toffee stick better) and then leave them to dry.
Step 3: To check whether the toffee is done, spoon a little bit into a bowl of cold water. If it’s done, the toffee will turn hard in the water. Be careful though, the toffee won’t harden straight away, so check on it a couple of minutes after you’ve spooned it into the water! The first time I did this, I burnt the toffee because I was too over-enthusiastic and put it on too high a heat.
Step 4: Put a stick into the apples (I used forks because I’m a poor student, but they’re much less aesthetically pleasing) and then dip your apples into the toffee and swirl around. I left my apples on greaseproof paper to set.
Step 5: Eat your toffee apples!
I had some toffee left after I’d dipped all my apples, so I went a bit crazy and dipped a lot of other things in toffee… the toffee orange was the definitely the nicest. I also made flapjack with the toffee and some oats which was yummy 
How did you spend your bonfire night?
mmm these look amazing! We don’t celebrate Guy Fawkes day here in the US.
<3 Melissa
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These look great! I have always wanted to make toffee (and chocolate) apples but have never been brave enough! Lol is that toffee dipped mushroom too? How did that taste?
Haha, I didn’t try the mushroom one’s but I bet they weren’t very nice!
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YUMMM, these look so delicious! Thanks for the recipe! Can’t wait to make them… I love fall foods. We don’t celebrate Guy Fawkes here in the US, kind of wish we did though. Jealous that you live in England! The English always fascinated me… where in the north do you live? I’m not that familiar, but I’m familiar with Northumberland, kind of. Must be getting cold there! Hope you’re doing well, dear.
xox, Amber
Aww, let me know if they turn out okay
I live in York ,so that’s a little south of Northumberland. I love it here, it’s so pretty! It’s freezing though you’re right, sometimes my fingers go numb when I’m inside the library.
when i tried to make toffee apples last year i burnt the toffee HAHA! This is such a nice tutorial! can i put a link to this on my blog?
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Of course you can! xx