toffee apple BrE
candy apple AmE

This probably originated when the toffee apple was a popular type of candy.

"You wouldn't like to give me a toffee apple to suck?"

Isaac saw that she had a toffee apple gripped in her mandibles.

The children were prancing and tearing chunks out of the toffee apples.

The working title of the instrumental backing was "Toffee Apple".

Cheery cherry red toffee apples, just the thing for bonfire night.

Other traditions include making toffee apples and apple tarts.

Or should she have a toffee apple?

"And then I suppose that three little pigs with wings flew down and gave you a toffee apple each?"

She smelt - curiously - of toffee apples.

Candy apple which corresponds to the British "toffee apple"

A mixture of traditional toffee apples and bric-a-brac is laid out up and down the main street.

They can't exist on ice creams and toffee apples.'

'You look like a toffee apple,' he said.

One apple and one banana, toffee apple if you've got no banana.

Tastings, cider and juice making, toffee apples, cheeses.

But despite uniting the family and closing the age gap, there is something divisive about toffee apples seldom mentioned around the bonfire.

I remember toffee apples, fire-eaters, iced wine, jugglers and horses racing on a grass track.

Ideas which didn't fly in consumer testing included tropical fruit, toffee apple and square, toaster-friendly buns.

Toffee Apple (1987)

I stumbled over a 'toffee apple' - a spherical mortar-bomb complete with its firing pole - and left it well alone.

Lots of sticky pots t' be washed; they've been making honey pudden an' maple toffee apples.

Strawberries and cream, toffee apples, yellow dandelion bread, and dark, fizzy elderberry cordial.

I pushed my way through the munching hordes, ice-cream, gingerbread men, toffee apples and potato crisps parted to let me pass.

Toffee Apple is an album by the Australian children's musician Peter Combe.