Amy’s Stewed Date Caramel Apples & Spiced Custard

“This delicious, warming dessert is sweetened only with dates and dried apricots, which when heated create a wonderful sticky caramel syrup! It’s lovely with the spiced custard. I made hundreds of portions of this for the Hackney Winter Warmer – an event I lovingly described as Glastonbury for Hackney elders. It was always packed and I had amazing conversations with so many great characters. This dessert went down a treat and many people took the recipe home. These events are a treasured me