Toffee apples?!


Question: Toffee apples!?
you remember back in the days, at carnivals they used to sell toffee apples!? I miss them!!!

im currently in Auckland, New Zealand!. Does anyone know where I could find them!?!? Or better yet, teach me how to make the yummiest toffee apples!.!.!. :-)Www@FoodAQ@Com


Answers:
EquipmentYou'll need 15 wooden chopsticks or paddle pop sticks for this recipe!.

Ingredients
15 small Red Delicious or Pink Lady apples, washed, dried
4 cups white sugar
1 cup water
1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
2 teaspoons red liquid food colouring
Method
Push a stick into each apple!. Line 2 baking trays with baking paper!. Place sugar and water into a heavy-based saucepan over low heat!. Cook, stirring, until sugar has dissolved!. Stop stirring!. Bring to the boil!. Using a wet pastry brush, brush away sugar crystals on sides of saucepan above syrup!. Stir in cream of tartar and food colouring!.
Reduce heat to low!. Simmer toffee for 20 minutes or until it reaches hard crack stage!. To check if it has reached this stage, add 1 teaspoon of toffee to a glass of ice-cold water!. Remove solidified toffee from water and bend it!. The toffee should crack easily and not feel sticky!. Once toffee is at this stage, remove from heat immediately!.
Wait until toffee stops bubbling then dip 1 apple into toffee!. Tip pan on an angle to coat apple in toffee, especially around stick!. Place onto prepared baking tray!. Repeat with remaining apples!. Allow to set at room temperature!.
Source
Super Food Ideas - October 2004 , Page 31Www@FoodAQ@Com

Git your Edmond's Cookbook out Lovey, or borrow the neighbours copy, you must use Granny Smiths apparently and really thuck sticks thet are hard to git!. (sorry, lived in Auckland for a year) They made them on "Fresh" that Australian Channel 9 Cooking show, last week, maybe you could google it!. Other than that, we can still get them every week at our local Woolworth's supermarket here, maybe your local greengrocer could give you an idea, we lovem, my local veg shop was selling them 2 for $3 and I did a deal and bought 16 of the blessed things for $1 each, they lasted 4 days and I didn't get one, the teens ate the lot bar the 2 I gave to the little ones over the road! Hope you find some!Www@FoodAQ@Com

Put 2 cups of sugar in a saucepan and add 1/2 cup of water and bring to boil!. Turn down to a slow simmer and stir until all the sugar's dissolved!.
Add 1/4 teaspoon of cream of tartar and some red food coloring!.
Simmer until thick and sticky!. Put a little of the mixture in a cup of cold water to see if it hardens straightaway!.

Put flat sticks in green apples and cover with sticky mixtures!.
Set on baking paper until it's hard!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

I will try tiger lily's recipe but what it tartar!.Www@FoodAQ@Com





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