toffee apple

noun2

1. •
   (UK, Commonwealth) A candy apple.

   • Toffee apples and fairy floss are often sold as fairground snacks.
2. •
   (UK, slang) A kind of British trench mortar used in World War I.

   • Here we would find, perhaps, three 18-pounder guns dug in as antitank defences supplemented by 60 lb "toffee apple" trench mortar bombs buried as makeshift anti-tank mines. — 2014