Cinder Toffee

Every year Hull fair, one of Europe's largest travelling fun fairs comes to Hull and it's a major event for young people in Hull. One of the youth asked if we could mark the visit of Hull fair by making Toffee Apples at youth group but everybody knows the trouble with toffee apples is after you eat the toffee you have to eat an apple as well (some kind of parental ruse).

So... We made cinder toffee instead.

Cinder toffee is mostly made of sugar (shhhh! don't tell the parents!)

After boiling up sugar, butter and golden syrup in a pan you add vinegar and bicarbonate of soda which fizzes up and causes the bubbly goodness.

Yum!
I would like to tell you that we finished the evening with a profound moral lesson based upon the experience of making cinder toffee but we played ping pong instead!