Toffee Apples

Ingredients

• 10 small apples
• 4 cups sugar
• 1 cup water
• 1/3 cup sugar syrup
• 1 teaspoon red food coloring

Directions

1. 1

   rinse apples under cold water and stand on rack until completely dry, do not rub with a cloth.

2. 2

   grease an oven tray.

3. 3

   push a skewer three quarters of the way into each apple at the stem end.

4. 4

   combine sugar, water, glucose syrup and colouring in a heavy-based saucepan.

5. 5

   stir over heat, without boiling until sugar is dissolved.

6. 6

   boil uncovered without stirring about 20 minutes or until mixture reaches a crack stage (remove sugar syrup from heat, allow bubbles to subside, drop a teaspoon of syrup into cold water, it should set hard and be hard to crack with fingers).

7. 7

   remove syrup from heat, stand pan in baking dish of warm water about 1 minute or until bubbles subside.

8. 8

   remove pan from water, tilt pan, dip and rotate an apple slowly in toffee until apple is completely coated.

9. 9

   twirl apple round a few times before placing onto greased oven tray to set.

10. 10

    pepeat with remaining apples and toffee.