Critters in the hay
Yield: 4 Quarts
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 kernels
- 1 c Candy corn
Instructions:
-Licorice ropes;black -wooden picks -small black gum drops or -other small black candies -red decorating icing -tiny red jaw-breakers candy -wormshape candies 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 gumdrops. Press jaw-breakers into icing to make eyes. Place"spiders" and worm-shaped candies in popcorn. Remove wooden picks before eating. Makes 4 quarts.
