anyone into cooking treats for them??
we dont make a huge deal out of it tbh.. but this year next door are having a bonfire and we said we would go over for hotdogs and toasted marshmallows so think i might make toffee apples
Ingredients
For the toffee coating
225g demerara sugar
110ml water
0.5 tsp vinegar
2 tbsp golden syrup
25g butter
For the apples
6 dessert apples
6 wooden skewers, for holding the apples ice lolly sticks will do
Method
1. Dissolve the sugar in the water over a moderate heat. When it has dissolved, stir in the vinegar, syrup and butter. Bring to a boil and cook without stirring until it reaches hard-crack stage (138C) or hardens into a ball when dropped in a jug of cold water. This should take around 10 minutes boiling time.
2. While the syrup is cooking, pierce each apple with a wooden stick. Once the toffee is ready, dip each apple into the hot toffee, turning it around in the syrup so that each one is fully coated.
3. Leave to harden on a lightly oiled tray before serving. If you're planning to keep them for a day or two, wrap the apples in cellophane.
and this is a bit higgeldy piggeldy but i make cupcakes for the kids for halloween and paint spider webs on them.. we grew our own pumpkins next door this year.. from seeds ive had for a few years (next door were doing a veggy patch and had space left.. and it was brill from 6 seeds came 6 plants and 5 pumpkins! and they are huge too.. so ive told alex im having a pumpkin patch next year and im gonna grow some noram squashes coz i love them roasted..
we dont make a huge deal out of it tbh.. but this year next door are having a bonfire and we said we would go over for hotdogs and toasted marshmallows so think i might make toffee apples
Ingredients
For the toffee coating
225g demerara sugar
110ml water
0.5 tsp vinegar
2 tbsp golden syrup
25g butter
For the apples
6 dessert apples
6 wooden skewers, for holding the apples ice lolly sticks will do
Method
1. Dissolve the sugar in the water over a moderate heat. When it has dissolved, stir in the vinegar, syrup and butter. Bring to a boil and cook without stirring until it reaches hard-crack stage (138C) or hardens into a ball when dropped in a jug of cold water. This should take around 10 minutes boiling time.
2. While the syrup is cooking, pierce each apple with a wooden stick. Once the toffee is ready, dip each apple into the hot toffee, turning it around in the syrup so that each one is fully coated.
3. Leave to harden on a lightly oiled tray before serving. If you're planning to keep them for a day or two, wrap the apples in cellophane.
and this is a bit higgeldy piggeldy but i make cupcakes for the kids for halloween and paint spider webs on them.. we grew our own pumpkins next door this year.. from seeds ive had for a few years (next door were doing a veggy patch and had space left.. and it was brill from 6 seeds came 6 plants and 5 pumpkins! and they are huge too.. so ive told alex im having a pumpkin patch next year and im gonna grow some noram squashes coz i love them roasted..
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