Toffee Apples - Emily with Sprinkles

This year was the first time we’d ever made toffee apples and I have to say it was great fun (and sticky, very sticky!) We learnt the hard way that the secret to making good toffee apples is actually a thinner rather than thicker layer of toffee. I’ve popped what we used and how we made them below. But first, a few more tips.

Tips

If the toffee starts to harden and set, simply heat the bowl up in the microwave in 10 second bursts.
The apples need to be at room temperature. We keep ours in the fridge and this caused the toffee to set almost instantly on our first attempt.
If you’re adding sprinkles, do this straight away. If you wait till all 6 apples are coated, it’s highly likely that the toffee will be too hard for the sprinkles to stick to.
Use 2 dessert spoons to help you coat the apples and smooth the toffee. Keep the spoons in a cup of hot water when not being used.

Ingredients

250g dairy toffee sweets
6 apples
Wooden skewers
Sprinkles (optional)

Dairy toffee sweets next to wooden skewers and a bag of apples

All of these ingredients were bought from Asda in my usual online shop and were sold as a Toffee Apple bundle.

How to Make

5 apples with wooden skewers in on a baking paper lined tray

Step 1

Line a tray or plate with baking paper. Place a skewer in the centre of each apple and put onto the baking tray.

Step 2

Unwrap all the toffee sweets and place in a heat proof bowl. Melt in the microwave in 30 second bursts (approximately 1 1/2 minutes in total should be enough).