Little Goblins' Toffee Apples

Makes 10
Description/Notes:

Apples for halloween follow the tradition of the centuries old halloween game of trying to catch apples with your teeth from a barrel of water.Toffee apples appeared later at halloween fairs

Ingredients:
10 apples, small
8 oz. (225g) black treacle (molasses)
4 oz. (125g) butter
16oz. (450g) brown sugar
1 tbsp vinegar

Cooking Instructions:

1. Thoroughly wash the apples then dry with kitchen paper
   
2. Insert a wooden stick in each, downwards through the core, to act as handles
   
3. Put the butter, treacle, sugar and vinegar in a pan, mix together and bring to the boil for about 20 minutes
   
4. Quickly dip the apples in the hot mixture and then place on a rack to set
   

WORMY APPLES

Serving Size : 8

1 Pkg caramel apple mix - (for 8 apples)

8 Apples 1 Bottle red crystal - decorating sugar

8 Or more gummy worms

Prepare caramel apples according to package directions. As each is done, roll it in red sugar while still warm. Place on individual plates and put a gummy worm on each.  Happy Halloween!

Wormy Baked Apples

6 lg Golden Delicious apples

1/2 c *each* raisins and chopped walnuts

1/2 c Firmly packed brown sugar

1/4 c Water

1/4 c (1/2 stick) butter/margarine

1/2 t *each* ground cinnamon and ground nutmeg

6 Wiggly candy worms ("Gummy Worms")

1 c Whipping cream -- optional

Instructions: Core apples from blossom ends, leaving stem ends intact. Mix raisins and walnuts and stuff into cavities of cored apples. Set apples, stems up in a 7x12-inch pan.

In a 1 to 2 quart pan, mix brown sugar, water, butter,cinnamon, and nutmeg; stir over high heat until mixture boils.

Pour hot syrup around apples. Bake, uncovered, in 350~ oven, basting occasionally with syrup, until apples are tender when pierced and skin begins to crack, 30 to 35 minutes.

Remove apples from oven; cool in pan at least 10 minutes or let cool to room temperature. Set each apple in a small bowl and spoon syrup around fruit. In the top of each apple, cut a hole large enough for one of the candy worms and tuck one end into each apple, leaving most of the worm dangling. Offer cream to pour over apples. Makes 6 ghastly servings.