Toffee Apple Dipping Chips - Get the hand wipes ready, these sticky Toffee Apple Dipping Chips are a crispy & sweet clean eating treat!
Remember the Toffee Apples you got as a kid at the funfair? Here's the clean eating guilt free version in the form of Toffee Apple Dipping Chips!
These chips take minutes to prepare and are perfect for those moments when the kids want something sweet.
Use these healthy chips instead of traditional ones. They're a great way to get some fruit into the kids, give them their own pot of maple syrup to dip and you'll be a hero for the day. And who doesn't want to be a hero?
The sweetness in these apple chips comes from maple syrup, which fits well into a clean eating diet when eaten occasionally.
Find out here why not all clean eaters quit sugar.
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I tend to make enough of these Apple Chips to last, at least for a little while. It doesn't happen that way a lot, but I try. I use an apple per person loosely, maybe a little more...
How To Store Toffee Apple Chips
Once your Toffee Apple Chips are ready and your home is filled with the sweet smell of apple and maple syrup, you need to store them somewhere (or hide them)!
I use glass airtight jars to store these chips, amongst other things. We changed all our food storage containers and jars over to glass ones as we're trying to reduce our plastic use. And they look lovely...they really do!
These ones come with cute chalkboard sticker to use as labels.
You just need your storage container to be airtight, so they keep their crunch. No one likes a soggy toffee apple chip!
How Long Do Homemade Apple Chips Last?
Your chips will last for a few days. If they do I'd be surprised, they're so moorish. Keep them out of the fridge, and treat them like a regular bag of chips.
Because they've been dried out, the apples won't lose their lovely golden color, but I'll say it again...keep them airtight!
How To Make Toffee Apple Chips Crunchy
The crunch you get from apple chips is because they've been dried out and all the moisture has evaporated.
You can use a food dehydrator but you don't need one. All you need is a warm oven and you can get the crispest crunchiest sweetest apple chips you've ever had.
Soggy apple chips tend to happen for a couple of reasons:
- The apples haven't been cooked for long enough
- The apples have been layered to deeply in the baking tray
How to layer your apple chips for cooking
Your apples don't have to be laid out singularly on your baking tray, but they do need to be not too thickly layered, or they can't dry out.
I tend to layer them about 2-3 deep, and turn them gently every 30 mins. This is what my baking tray looks like before it goes in the oven:
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Toffee Apple Dipping Chips
Ingredients
- ⅘ Apples medium, locally grown where possible
- Maple syrup
Instructions
- Wash your apples. I use one apple per person, and slice about 4-5 medium size apples per batch as this is what fits onto a standard baking tray
- Slice the apples. You can use a mandolin but I simply slice the apples as thinly as I can using a really sharp knife
- Lay your apple slices on the baking tray. You can use a teeny bit of Olive oil, but I prefer to use a good non-stick baking tray like this one. Your apples won't stick much to the pan, so if you do need to use an oil, use it sparingly
- Layer the apple slices in your tray no more than 2-3 slices deep
- Stick your tray in the oven. Your oven needs to be on very very low. The natural sugars in apples mean it's easy to burn your apples if the heat's to high. Your oven should be warm, rather than hot
- Cook for 1.5 hours. Turn your apples gently (they can be delicate before they're fully dried out) every half hour
- 15 minutes before they come out. Drizzle a table spoon of maple syrup over the apples. This gives them a lovely shine and the maple syrup cooks right into the apple slice
- Take out of the oven. Your apples will harden as they cool
- Serve! In our house our kids like to have their own tiny pot of Maple syrup on the side for dipping!
