toffee-apple

British

noun

an apple fixed on a stick and coated with a thin layer of toffee

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Best party The reception for Grant Gee’s Innocence of Memories – a chance to sample toffee-apple figs, truffles à go-go, and make light conversation with the Turkish Nobel prizewinner Orhan Pamuk, who inspired the film.

From The Guardian • Sep. 13, 2015

Kelly Moran chatted to Debby Crombie by the toffee-apple stall.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

I mean the toffee-apple about which, if you remember, Vesta Victoria used to sing so alluringly.

From Nights in London by Burke, Thomas

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