Hi there welcome to Drinks Tube! I'm Melanie. I'm Emile. And together we're Smith and Sinclair.
And we make cocktail based sweets and treats. And for today we are doing you a Halloween
special called Bobbing for Apples.
This one is especially for grownups so here are all
the ingredients you are going to need to make your own edible cocktails. To make the sweet
itself, what you are going to need is some apple brandy, some sugar, liquid glucose and
some powdered gelatine. To coat our finished sweet we've got some more sugar, nutmeg, cinnamon
and citric acid. Right so let's get making it. To start with we've got some liquid glucose.
So this is 300g of glucose going straight in the pan, it's a bit gloopy so just make
sure you have got a spatula on hand. We're gonna have some sugar. This is 250g of granulated
sugar and then we're just gonna add in a dash of water, just to stop the sugar from crystallising.
So I'm just gonna stir this on a low to medium heat. While that's cooking I'm going to get
the next mixture ready. What you're going to need is your apple brandy, 250ml, and that
is 50g of powdered gelatine. Just make sure you whisk that in so that it doesn’t get any
lumps . So back to the glucose and sugar were just gonna leave that you can stop stirring.
We're waiting for it to reach 130 degrees centigrade. You can see it bubbling away. We can leave
it there for about 10 minutes, so now that’s reached 130 degrees you can take the glucose
and sugar off the heat. Whilst that’s cooling there were gonna move on to this pan. This
is the gelatine. We’re gonna keep this on a medium to low heat so as not to burn off
all the alcohol. Now that the gelatine is nice and mixed into the brandy we can take
that off the heat. And we’re gon na mix that into our pan one with glucose and sugar, bit
by bit, wait until the glucose and sugar stops bubbling each time, you can see it getting
active and then as it reduces you can pour a bit more of the mix in. At the end you can
add in the rest of the mixture all in one go, so you've got that lovely brandy smell
coming through. Now that that's done I'm going to get pouring because my pan has got a spout
I’m just gonna pour it straight into the mould. You can get silicon moulds from
any hardware shop, kitchenware or online. We’ve gone with a more traditional look
so you can make it all year round. If you want something a bit more jazzy for your
Halloween party, just have a look online. And now we’re just gonna pass over the sugar,
get that sieved over the bases, just to make sure the bottoms are all covered. Right so
that's done, we’re just gonna pop this in the fridge for about half an hour, so they’re
nice and set. So whilst those are cooling in the fridge, we're just gonna get the sugar
coating ready. You just need your half cup of granulated sugar. It's half a teaspoon
of citric acid – that’ s gonna give it that tangy bite that you get with Tangfastics
or something like that. And then were just going to grate in a pinch of nutmeg and cinnamon.
Do this to taste. Some people like it more spicy than others. Smells so good. You can
buy this pre-ground. Personally I like to use a stick, it's a bit fresher. Right we’re
just going to mix this all in together, get all the spices nice and spread out, so make
sure you do try this to taste, you can always add a bit more citric acid or spice. Right
guys so these are nice and set, they’ve been in the fridge for about half an hour.
If they’re not set in your fridge in a half an hour just put them back for another 5 minutes;
they will be set by then. We’re just going to shake off the excess sugar, and we’re
going to get coating. Right these come out really easily out of the silicon moulds, just
grab a corner, pull out, get everything in, go onto the next. Once you’ve got about
4 or 5 in a bowel just give them a nice shake up. If you can see make sure they are coated
in all the spices, so that’s what they should look like fully coated, the speckles of spice
going through out. Looks so good! Can’t wait to try it! But before you do try it,
what you wanna do is present it amazingly for the party. Now what we’ve got here we
got some crystallized white chocolate, and to make that what we do is get some sugar
in a pan, heat it to 140 degrees and just throw in some white chocolate, and keep stirring,
stirring, stirring and then we get this amazing consistency. And then we’re gonna get all
our pastels into a big handful, shake off all the excess sugar, because you don’t want
that mixed in with our nice white chocolate crumb. And place them - doesn’t that look
beautiful? Have that at the front of your event, but if you want something a bit more
fancy, why not serve your edible cocktail in a cocktail glass. Right, we're all done.
Let’s have a little taste shall we? So you really get the tang coming through when you
first bite into it, the cinnamon and the nutmeg, really strong. And with that he more you chew
that apple brandy really comes through, it's amazing. Make sure you absolutely try this
at home, it's gonna be the biggest success of your party, everyone will be talking about
it and when you do try it for your Halloween party just make sure you let us know how it
goes by leaving all of your comments below. And the check out our mate Karis, she’s
doing a pale ale and blackberry ice lolly. And if you haven’t already what you need
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good luck with making your recipe. Thank you! Bye bye bye bye!