Spiced Baked Apples With A Toffee Sauce / Cook With Me

It’s Sunday and since we’re closer to Halloween I will make this weeks videos Halloween specials, today I follow a recipe from Tesco’s October (Halloween edition) monthly magazine, I make baked spiced apple with a yummy toffee sauce with Vanilla Ice cream on the side. #halloween2025 #spiced apple #halloweendecor #cookingathome

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Good morning everyone. How are you? Today is Sunday and it’s the 26th of October. I am going to be doing it’s not so much bacon. It’s a dessert I’m going to make which I found in the Tesco magazine. I think you get it every month from Tesco. And it’s baked spiced apples with a toffee sauce. So, I’ll show you all the ingredients. Some of there’s not much preparation really, but I’ll let you see it. I’ll let you see it when it’s finished. And we’ll be having it with vanilla ice cream after dinner. Here’s the Tesco magazine. I’d got it a few weeks ago and this is me just getting around to doing the apples and scares. So, I’ll just let you see what the ingredients are. It’s quite a lot. A lot of spices. That looks lovely with the vanilla ice cream and toffee sauce. So, all the ingredients are there. Now, I thought it would be best if I just done it this way and then you can see all the ingredients how to cook it or how to bake it. and uh rather than me trying to write it all down in my description. So, all you need to do is pause the this video and you’ve got the ingredients and how to do it right in front of you. Right, I have all my ingredients ready. Um, it says in the recipe in the Tesco magazine that it’s Cox’s um apples. Says it somewhere. Yeah, just just down here. Right, that’s Galla apples I’ve got. I much prefer them. Um, so that’s what we’re going to have. I’ve got everything else. The only thing isn’t out there is the ice cream. Vanilla ice cream. It’s safely in the freezer and we’ll be having that with this dessert. So, I’m going to get on with it. And I will let you see the finished product and how good it tastes. Right, I’m just going to put the ingredients in. First the light brown sugar and then 80 g of butter. So it’s 25 g Oh, I’m on the wrong bit. Hold on. G. That’s it. So 25 g of brown sugar. That’s far too much. Five. Pop it in the pot. And 80 g of butter. also keep some of this butter for greasing the the tray that the apples are going to go on. Is that too much? So, okay, I’ve got the light brown salt sugar here and the butter. That’s going to melt. Then I’m going to add the spices on a low heat. Keep it a low heat. Now, I’ve never made these before. I’m just following the instructions in the Tesco magazine. I’m going to turn this down a bit lower. Um, now the spices. I’m not using them all. I’ve got the cinnamon sticks, ground ginger, ground cinnamon, and the cardamon. cardamon pods which had to be crushed. So that’s what was in the pods. Um I’m not using the star or the cloves because tam my husband doesn’t like it. So we will just stick with what we we like. So obviously the cinnamon sticks will get removed from the the mix. But this is just to flavor it all. So, I’m going to let this melt and then I’ll come back when it’s time to put the spices in. Right, that’s the sugar and the butter melted. Now, you only put that on for about a minute. Just ensure that the sugar’s all melted. Done with the butter. And then we’re going to add the spices. Now, as I said before, I’m only using the cinnamon sticks, the ground ginger, the ground cinnamon, and the cardamon pods. So, I would say that’s the sugar well melted with the butter. So, I’m just going to pop all these in together. Stir it for about a minute. If it starts to get foamy, then it’s time to take it off or until it smells fragrant as it said in the Tesco magazine. I would have added the cloves for myself, but there’s no point if Tom doesn’t like cloves and he doesn’t like well star and is a licorice. Um, so Tom doesn’t want licorice. So I didn’t put them in, but it’s entirely up to you what you add to your sauce if he’s making this. Now that looks as if it’s going foamy to me. Oh, smells lovely. And that’s without the cloves and the stars. I’ll just keep it going just a wee bit longer. Then I’ll put it aside. Prepare my apples. I’ll add lemon juice to this. It’s a tablespoon of lemon juice according to the recipe. And we’ll get the apples in the oven. I’ve got my oven on just now preheating. Right. So, it’s brown. Nice brown color and fragrant. So, right now I’m going to add in the lemon juice. tablespoon of lemon juice, a pinch of salt, and just a pinch tablespoon of lemon juice. Oops. Okay, I’ve washed the apples. I’m only going to use this is two apples half obviously and I’m just going to use the two. So that’ll be two. Well, it’ll be an apple each for Tam and I. I’ve ced it the inside of it just with a a melon bowler. So, I’ll do the other three halves. I’ve greased a tray. They’ll go on that. Some of the spice butter will get poured over it. It’ll get covered with tin foil and then into the oven. So, I’ll just let you see that as I’ve done it. Right. So, just trim off any bits on the apple like at the edges there. It might be quite hard to eat. This isn’t easy for me to do this, but just use your melon bowler. Take out the seeds. Oh, I like see that. But there I would just use a knife and cut that off. Okay, got my tray. So, I’m going to pop the two ready on that. And then I’ve just got two to do it. Okay, apples are ready. And I’m just going to put the sauce over the apples. Well, it’s actually spiced butter. it’s called. Um, remember you’ve got cinnamon sticks in there. They’re just to flavor so they’re not going on. I mean, there’s enough there for four apples. Um, but I just decided to put these on and we’ll see how it turns out. Going to cover it with tin foil now. Just let you see the way the sauce oops sorry has been the butter spice butter all over the apple. Cover it with tin foil and it goes in the oven for 30 minutes as per the Tesco recipe instructions. Just having a we cup of tea before I make the toffee sauce. Um because I don’t need the toffee sauce until the apples are ready and we’re going to have our dessert which won’t be later on. So, you can keep the toffee sauce in the fridge for a week. I think it’s all in the Tesco. The instructions there. Just pause the video and you’ll see them all with all the ingredients as well. And uh so, but I’m going to make it show you getting made. And the apples, they’ve just got about another 10 minutes. Then I take them out the oven, remove the foil and just base it, you know, with the spice butter that I poured over it before it went in the oven. You give it a base, you cover it again, and you pop it back in the oven for a further 10 minutes, I think it is. Um, and we’ll have that for a dessert today after I make Sunday dinner. I’m going to be making bra steak for the dinner today. I would like roast potatoes. Tam won’t just normal whole potatoes. Uh so I don’t know what I’ll do. But I am going to have some of that asparagus roasted in the oven. I’m going to have that with it. So nice big cup of tea. Then I’m going to melt those toffes with the single cream and we’ll see how that turns out. It’s Tesco’s recipe. It’s not mine. We can only try it. And it’s a nice thing to make at this time of the year. I think Halloween’s coming up and it’s winter. Coming into winter. Hope you changed your clocks last night. Did you turn them back an hour? Hope so. Right. I’ve just taken the apples from the oven. That’s 50 minutes um roasting now. You can base it. I’ll just let you see those. Bring you in a we bit closer. I’m going to base it. The still the spice part. Baste it. Cover it and pop it back in the oven for 10 15 minutes. But they’re actually nice and soft. So I might not need to do that. Not for 15 minutes anyway. I might basee them and then pop them in just for another five. Sorry, another five minutes. Depends if this is the kind of dessert you like. I mean, I like warm apple pie with ice cream. Um, just depends on your taste. So, I know I’ll enjoy this. Not too sure about my husband. Right. So, just maybe 5 minutes, I think. just because I’ve based it. But they are ready. They’re ready to eat. They’re nice and soft, nice and tender. Just ready to eat. So, pop them back in the oven. Then I better make this toffee sauce. Right, toffes are there. 60 ml of single cream. I’ve put the heat on down low just now. You need it low to start with or keep it at low. to the bottom of it already. That’s because they were just sitting there right now. These are just toffes I got from Morrison’s. Hopefully it’ll turn out right. I’ve never heard of making coffee this way. a toffee sauce anywhere, but we’ll give it a go. This is actually melting quicker than I thought it would be. The toff. And it is starting to resemble a toffee sauce. I would never thought of that for making a toffee sauce. Thank you, Tesco. I mean, the bag of toffes was about 89 p or something like that. I’m just going to turn this heat down another we bit. I’ve taken the apples out the the oven, so they’re just sitting on the tray. Um, don’t know what that is. Don’t tell me I’ve left, you know, left a bit of foil on it. See me grossing the finger off myself. Be careful not to leave any foil on the sweets when you put them into the pot before you melt them. But at least I found it anyway. There’s still some toffee not melted. So I’m turning the heat down even lower. You don’t want it to burn at the end of the day. I’ll probably need to reheat this when we’re ready to have our dessert later. You can make it a week in advance. That’s what I meant earlier on when I said you can keep it in the fridge for up to a week. So, you can make it in advance. put it in the fridge and then it’s just a matter I think on the recipe it said heating it up like 10 second bursts. Um you don’t want to burn it. I would say that was all melted. Wouldn’t you look at that lovely toffee sauce? Switch the heat off. Now, there’s still um some spice butter in there, but they’ll probably also be just from the apples in it. I think there’s plenty on it as it is. I don’t think we need any more. Um, maybe just drizzle it. You can do that. You can keep it and drizzle it over it once you’ve put your ice cream and everything. But I think that’s plenty. So that’s the apples. To me, that’s lovely with all the spices in it. Right here it is. We’ve had our main meal. We’ve had the bra steak for our dinner. And now we’re having this spiced apple with ice cream. um and some toffee sauce over it as well. So, we’ll go and try it and I’ll let you know what I think of it. Well, I enjoyed that dessert because I like things like cinnamon and ginger. Tom didn’t because he doesn’t like cinnamon, but I thought you could taste more ginger from it. I thoroughly enjoyed it. The toffee sauce was nice, but I think I would use something different the next time. Morrison’s toffes weren’t that nice to be honest with you. So, maybe a better brand of toffee. Um, dairy toffes. Um, if you want to make your sauce that way, it was quite an easy way of making it. So, yeah, that that was quite good. Um, ice cream was lovely. So, no, I enjoyed mine. Tam ate the ice cream and the toffee sauce, but not the apples because he didn’t like that taste. So, if you’re not into spices, if you don’t like cinnamon or gingerbread or ginger even, don’t go for it. Um, but if you do it as a nice we dessert, what I think was missing was crumble. I think I would stick to making a cinnamon apple crumble. the apples. Now, I didn’t notice on the Tesco magazine in the recipe that you had to peel the apples and it was just half the apples, core them. I felt I would have been happier with the skin off them. Although some of it I did eat with the skin on or most of it at the skin on, but even so, I think it would have been better with no skin. So, if you’re thinking about making it, anyone, it depends on your taste, but I would peel them in half them and core them and then pour the the soft sauce over it. Or the spice butter it was called. Um, maybe I missed that out. Maybe it did see it and I just missed it. So, I don’t think I did though. H But all in all, yeah, it was good. Would I make it again? Yeah, with the skin off the apples, I would make it again. and Tom wouldn’t be getting any cuz he just wasted an apple. He took a taste of it and that was him. So anyway, it’s been a busy day. I’ve been busy in the kitchen today. It’s the busiest I’ve been in a long time. I really think maybe my appetite and my motivation’s coming back a wee bit. But it’s nearly 10 5. Well, it is 10 5 now and it’s dark dark outside because the clocks went back last night. So anyway folks, I am going to love you and leave you. I know I had promised to show in my last video some Halloween things and when my two grand kids went to see um lights, it was called Glasgow Glow. No, Glasg Glow and it was in the botanical gardens in Glasgow. I will show you that but it’ll probably be the next one. I just don’t want this to be too long of a video. So, I’m that tired now and so I can hardly function. Anyway, I love you and leave you. See you in the next one. Take care and I hope you had a lovely weekend. Bye.