Bonfire Night

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For Bonfire night I made my first foray into the world of cake pops!

Toffee Apple Cake Pops

I did the full recipe and ended up with LOADS so if you only want a few, half this recipe!

INGREDIENTS

100g unsalted butter (melted and cooled)

300g SR flour

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp ground cinnamon

200g light muscavado sugar

3 dessert apples

3 eggs (beaten)

100ml whole milk

30 lollipop sticks

FOR THE BUTTERCREAM

175g unsalted butter (softened)

225g icing sugar (sifted)

FOR THE TOFFEE COVERING

160g caster sugar

200ml double cream

1 tsp vanilla extract

METHOD

1. Preheat oven to 170C
2. Grease and line 23cm square tin
3. sift together flour, baking powder, cinnamon and then stir in sugar
4. peel, core and grate apples. drain and squeeze out excess juice.
5. make a well in centre of dry ingredients and add apples, eggs, melted butter and milk. stir until just combined
6. tip into tin and bake for 35 - 40 mins. cool
7. BUTTERCREAM - beat butter until pale and fluffy. add icing sugar and beat for 5 mins
8. POPS - crumble cake into large bowl. mix in buttercream until it holds together. roll into balls and cool overnight
9. TOFFEE - place sugar and 60ml water in a pan and heat gently. when sugar is dissolved, bring to boil. when it thickens and turns golden remove from heat. add cream and vanilla and stir until smooth. Place each lollystick into toffee, then into a cake pop, then into caramel. stick in block with holes (cardboard or polystyrene your choice) and cool

YUM!

I also served some in petit four cases because I didn't have enough sticks