Get in the spirit of Halloween with these frightfully delicious Toffee Apples
It’s the time of year when ghosts and ghouls come out to play and these delicious, rich and golden brown Halloween Toffee Apples are the perfect ending to any fright night feast.
Kirstie Allsopp, the queen of homemade cooking brings you a recipe that combines sweet, creamy caramel flavours and crunchy apple. As always, they are simple for you to make in the comfort of your own home.
The Nestlé Carnation Caramel is what makes this sweet desert so special, as it gives the toffee a delightful creamy flavour and glossy texture. Make sure there is plenty to go round as these toffee apples will definitely get the trick or treater’s knocking at your door again.
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Recipe
Makes 6 Toffee Apples Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 10-15 minutes
Ingredients
6 eating apples
175g (6oz) light buttery spread
100g (3½oz) maple or golden syrup
225g (8oz) light brown soft sugar
200g (7oz) Carnation Condensed Milk
Method
1.Dunk the apples into a large bowl of boiling water for 30 seconds, remove with a slotted spoon and allow to cool slightly before wiping the skins with kitchen paper – this will remove any wax from the apples and allow the toffee to stick better to the skin.
2.Holding the apple firmly, insert a chopstick or lolly stick into the apples near the core. Place a piece of parchment onto a baking sheet.
3.Place the remaining ingredients into a large pan and melt gently over a low heat. Then bring to the boil for about 15-20 minutes stirring frequently – if you have a food thermometer the temperature you need is about 130C! IT IS VERY HOT SO BE CAREFUL! It will be quite a deep brown caramel colour and will have a cinder toffee smell.
4.Remove from the heat, and very carefully take each apple and roll in the toffee to coat completely. Leave to set on the parchment until hard.
Tips
If your caramel doesn’t set hard on the apples – it will be because the toffee did not get hot enough. It still makes a lovely chewy caramel but a good test of ‘readiness’ is if you drop a small bit of the toffee into ice cold water and it forms very hard toffee. Small strands should shatter, if it is soft and chewy then it needs to get hotter!
Kirstie Allsopp’s Sticky Toffee Banoffee Muffins
Enjoy Halloween with these gooey scrumptious delights
It is almost half term and Halloween on the way, so what could be better than making these delicious Banoffee Muffins – created by the queen of all things homemade, Kirstie Allsopp.
Packed with banana as well as gorgeous caramel swirls, these delightfully soft, sticky and sweet banana muffins are not only the perfect afterschool treat on occasion but are also ideal for a coffee morning with friends. What’s more, they are really easy to make!
The Nestlé Carnation Caramel gives these muffins a delicious creamy toffee flavour, making them truly irresistible. Share them with your family and friends and be sure to save one for yourself as they won’t last long!
Log on to www.carnation.co.ukto find new delicious recipes every month from Kirstie Allsopp.
Recipe:
Makes 12 large muffins
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes
275g (10oz) self-raising flour
1tsp baking powder
1tsp bicarbonate of soda
2 eggs
150ml (¼pt) milk
5tbsp vegetable oil
2 large ripe bananas, mashed
1tsp vanilla extract
397g can Carnation Caramel
100g (3½oz) chopped pecan nuts (optional)
You will also need:
12 hole muffin tin and muffin cases
Method
1.Preheat the oven to 190°C, 375°F or Gas Mark 5.
2.Place the flour, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda into a bowl and mix well.
3.In a separate bowl, mix the eggs, milk, oil, mashed bananas and vanilla. Add the wet mixture to the dry ingredients and stir until just combined, without beating.
4.Drop spoonfuls of the caramel into the mixture, gently swirl through, but don’t mix it in – its nice to see little pockets of caramel bubbles in the finished muffins.
5.Place muffin cases in the tin and spoon the mixture into the cases until quite full. Top with the chopped pecan nuts, if using.
6.Bake in the preheated oven for 20 minutes and eat fresh and warm.
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Halloween Safety
* Always ask a Parent or Guardian before going trick or treating, and never go without a responsable adult.
* Always respect home owners wishes if they put up a sign for No Trick Or Treats.
* Alway be careful when out and about at night, If possible wear a reflective band.
And have a safe but fun night!
Q: How can you tell that Doctor Victor Frankenstein had a good sense of humor? A: Because he kept his monster in stitches.
Q: Who did Frankenstein take to the prom? A: His ghoul friend.
Q: What monster flies his kite in a rain storm? A: Benjamin Frankenstein
Q: What did the mad scientist eat on Halloween? A: Frankenfurters with Ketchup
Q: What kind of monster is safe to put in the washing machine? A: A wash and wear wolf
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