A toffee apple is a fruit coated in hard sweet syrup on a stick. Buy a toffee apple.
The coating has to be poured at hard-crack heat or it will go sticky instead of setting. A toffee apple in America is a candy apple, said to have been invented by a sweet-maker in 1908.
1nountoffee appleA fruit coated in hard sweet syrup on a stick.
“The toffee apple broke a filling and was worth it.”
toffee apple is a sweet.
Toffee plus apple; the American candy apple was reportedly invented by a confectioner experimenting with red cinnamon syrup in 1908.
The weapon is named after the food item, having a similar shape, i.e. a sphere with attached stick or handle.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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