Spiced Toffee Apple Bonfire Cakes
Little chocolate chip cakes, filled with spiced apple sauce, then drizzled with salted caramel. What’s not to love? These spiced toffee apple bonfire cakes are perfect for munching around the fire on cold autumn nights.
During chocolate week this year, I reviewed a bar of Divine spiced toffee apple chocolate that I’d been sent. Delicious as it was eaten straight from the packet, I knew I had to make something with it. And that something needed to be suitable for bonfire night on 5th November.
As it happened, I made these gorgeous little apple cakes for a presentation I was giving at the end of a course I’ve recently been attending. If you want to keep an audience sweet, you can always try distracting (read bribing) them with cake. That’s my philosophy and it seemed to work.
Spiced Toffee Apple Bonfire Cakes
I had apples from my mother’s trees, salted caramel leftover from this salted caramel cake and a lovely bar of Divine chocolate. It was time to get creative.
Toffee apple chocolate chip cakes with a pool of apple sauce in the middle and salted caramel dripping down the sides was my vision. You can see how I made them in the recipe below.
The spiced toffee apple bonfire cakes were sticky, soft and chewy all at the same time with lots of different appley and toffee flavours bursting out of them. They were both sweet and slightly tart and the salted caramel set them off nicely.
I made an apple sauce specifically for this recipe. It includes a tot of rum to warm things up a bit. But it’s fine to leave it out if you prefer. Alternatively, if you have a lot of apples, why not make up a batch of apple sauce. It keeps in the fridge really well.
The recipe makes a lot more apple sauce than you’ll need for these toffee apple cakes. But a spoonful is very nice atop a bowl of steaming porridge at this time of year. Enjoy.
Sticky as these cakes were, I’m not at all sure they’d be suitable for eating around the bonfire, not with gloves on and scarves flying about. However, they’d be perfect to welcome you in from the cold afterwards or to set you up before going out.
What Chocolate To Use?
If you can’t get hold of spiced toffee apple chocolate, go with some sort of salted caramel if you can. However, any good quality plain milk chocolate works fine too.
Other Apple Cakes You Might Like
- Apple crumble & custard cakes
- Dorset apple cake
- Honey cardamom apple cakes
- Irish apple cake
- Toffee apple hazelnut cake
- Upside-down apple cake
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Spiced Toffee Apple Bonfire Cakes. PINIT.
Spiced Toffee Apple Bonfire Cakes – The Recipe
Spiced Toffee Apple Bonfire Cakes
Ingredients
Apple Sauce
- 1 kg cooking apples
- 100 g light muscovado sugar or to taste
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tbsp rum optional
Cake Batter
- 275 g flour half wholemeal, half white
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)
- 2 tsp mesquite powder optional
- 100 g golden caster sugar (I used cardamom sugar)
- 2 large eggs (I used duck eggs)
- 75 g butter melted
- 140 ml milk
- 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 60 g milk chocolate chopped (I used Divine spiced toffee apple milk chocolate)
Topping
- 12 tsp salted caramel
- 20 g milk chocolate chopped (I used Divine spiced toffee apple milk chocolate)
Instructions
Apple Sauce
- Peel, core and chop the apples. Place in a pan with a dash of water, the rum, sugar (add more if you prefer it sweeter) and cinnamon. Simmer gently until the apples are soft. Make sure they don’t catch on the bottom of the pan, but don’t add too much extra water as the sauce needs to be thick. Purée with a stick blender and set aside.1 kg cooking apples, 100 g light muscovado sugar, 1 tsp ground cinnamon, 1 tbsp rum
Cake Batter
- Pour the vinegar into the milk, stir and leave to curdle. This is a quick way of making cheat’s buttermilk.140 ml milk, 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- Sieve the dry ingredients, including the caster sugar into a large bowl and make a well in the centre.275 g flour, 2 tsp baking powder, ¼ tsp bicarbonate of soda (baking soda), 2 tsp mesquite powder, 100 g golden caster sugar
- Break in the eggs, add the melted butter and stir gently from the middle outwards adding the milk gradually as you go until everything is just mixed. Gently stir in 60g of the chopped chocolate.2 large eggs, 75 g butter, 60 g milk chocolate
- Place a tbsp of batter at the bottom of twelve muffin cases. Drop in a heaped tsp of apple sauce and cover with the remaining batter. Take a cocktail stick and swirl the batter and sauce around a little.
- Bake at 180℃ (350℉, Gas 4) for 23 minutes or until the cakes are well risen and firm to the touch. Leave to cool for a couple of minutes, then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Topping
- Drizzle the salted caramel over the tops whilst still warm, then scatter over the remaining chocolate.12 tsp salted caramel, 20 g milk chocolate
Notes
Nutrition Estimate
Link-ups
Bonfire Night is the theme for this month’s Tea Time Treats with Janie over at The Hedge Combers and Karen at Lavender and Lovage. These spiced toffee apple bonfire cakes fit right in.
My salted caramel is languishing in the fridge and needs using up. So I’m joining in with this month’s No Waste Food Challenge which is hosted by Manjiri of A Slice of Me.
With Bonfire Night being all about light, these cakes fit in nicely to Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights. So I am entering these into Dish it Out – Diwali Bash over at Cooks Joy.
These also goes to Love Cake over at JibberJabberUK where the theme is In with a Bang this month.
And these go off to Lucy for #CookBlogShare over at Supergolden Bakes.
Spiced toffee apple chocolate? YES PLEASE! Love what you turned that bar into too, good job 🙂
Janie x
Cheers Janie 🙂
I need some of these now to warm me up! I love the chunks of chocolate on top. These look like a real lick-your-fingers-afterwards sort of muffin. Thanks for linking up.
Finger linking is most definitely required Ness 🙂
You had me at toffee… and then chocolate… and then apple. Yum. These sound perfect cold weather snacks with some tea (or better yet, spiced cider!)
thanks for linking to #CookBlogShare
Thanks Lucy. It’s got to be the spiced cider – sounds wonderful.
Mmmm.. toffee and apple, I like that. I could have it at any time of the day. Great way to use apples too.
You’re right Alida, these would be good at any time of day and any time of year too 😉
Salted caramel should ALWAYS be languishing in the fridge. That way you know you have got life right. x
I hope you’re not trying to say, it shouldn’t be topping any cakes or puds Kath!
Good heavens no! It should always be present, whether in the fridge, on a cake or on my spoon! x
Ah, what a relief! I think I’m inclined to agree with you.
What a decadent treat! I would fight the wind and scarfs for these any day 🙂
Haha, thank you Sandra – worth it indeed 🙂
I love the sound of your cupcakes but my problem is I don’t know if I could give up that bar of chocolate to cupcakes – sounds like a great flavour
It was a tough one Johanna. I did get to eat 20g of it and it was very good.
What a fabulous idea and they look amazing. Pass one this way!
Whizzing through the ether as I type Jac 🙂
these are gorgeous!… LOVE the kick of spice and the toffee apple flavour. Practically perfect little buns x
Ah thank you Dom 😀
Divine bonfire cakes with divine chocolate. Love the idea.
And hopefully there will be a divine bonfire and firework display tonight Bintu 🙂
These look divine!!!
Thanks Jennifer 🙂
These sounds really yummy! And so pretty!
Thank you Debi 🙂
I’m all in with caramel. Please bake these for me! Drooling over the pooling! 🙂
Thank you KC, drooling over the pooling was the very effect I wanted to achieve 🙂
Wow what a lovely little cakes! Wish my oven wasn’t broken 🙁
Oh no Sylvia, what a huge pain. I hope you get it fixed soon.
Wow, these sound delicious! I love cakes with apple, love salted caramel and love chocolate… Seems I NEED to give these a go!
Sounds like these might be perfect for you Kevin 🙂
Yummy!! im going to try it.
Let me know how you get on Pat.
Stop, stop, I can’t keep up! I have just been reading your tiffin post (again), distractedly stuffing my face with our equivalent of rich tea biscuits and dark chocolate because I felt a) inspired but b) too greedy to wait to make it!
Haha, your version sounds a lot healthier than mine Lucy.
Yes please! My order is on its way! These look amazingly good….. that little pool of caramel…… and such an inviting list of ingredients….. Very dangerous recipe (in the nicest possible way).
Well it’s always good to have something up your sleeve for a bonfire festive occasion Kate 🙂
These sound SO good! Perfect for bonfire night (and lunchboxes too!).
Might be a bit sticky for lunch boxes, but worth a go 😉
mmmmmm these sound gorgeous, please send some in the post 😉
I can send some virtually Gem!
Chewy, moist and sticky…that sounds just as good as pudding. These apple muffins look glorious!
Yes, these are definitely pudding cakes Angie 🙂
These look absolutely delicious! Definitely going to try them out.
Would love to know how you get on if you do try this Jessica.