Critters In The Hay
Source of Recipe
Yum Yum
List of Ingredients
1 1/2 c Sugar
1 c Light corn syrup
2 tb Butter
1 1/2 ts Pumpkin pie spice
1 ts Vanilla
1/2 ts Salt
1/2 ts Green food color(optional)
3 1/2 qt Popped popcorn; remove any
-unpopped kernals
1 c Candy corn
-Licorice ropes;black
-wooden picks
-small black gum drops or
-other small black candies
-red decorating icing
-tiny red jaw-breakers candy
-wormshape candies
Recipe
In Dutch oven, bring sugar,corn syrup and butter to a boil; boil 2 1/2 minutes.
Stir in pumpkin pie spice,vanilla,salt and food coloring(if desired) mix until evenly colored.
Add popcorn and toss until evenly coated.
Spread popcorn mixture in a single layer on greased sheets of foil and allow to cool and harden.
Break into bite-size pieces and mix with candy corn in a wide shallow bowl; set aside.
To make spiders, cut licorice into 2 inch lengths.
To make legs, starting at one end, make three 1/2 inch to 3/4 inch cuts to make four legs.
Repeat cuts at opposite end.
Leave about 1/2 inch in center uncut.
Gently pull legs apart and curl down.
Push wooden pick through center of body, leaving about 1/4 inch exposed on top.
Push one gumdrop onto exposed pick to make a body.
Using writing tip of decorating icing, squeeze two small dots of icing into gumbrops.
Press jaw-breakers into icing to make eyes.
Place"spiders" and worm-shaped candies in popcorn.
Remove wooden picks before eating.
Makes 4 quarts.
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