Critters in the hay

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Contents 1 Description 2 Ingredients 3 Directions 4 See also

[edit] Description

Makes 4 quarts.

[edit] Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cup Sugar
• 1 cup light corn syrup
• 2 tbsp butter
• 1 1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp Green food color (optional)
• 3 1/2 quart Popped popcorn, remove any -unpopped kernals
• 1 cup 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

[edit] Directions

1. In dutch oven, bring Sugar,corn syrup and butter to a boil; boil 2 ½ minutes.
2. Stir in pumpkin pie spice,vanilla,salt and food coloring(if desired) mix until evenly colored.
3. Add popcorn and toss until evenly coated.
4. Spread popcorn mixture in a single layer on greased sheets of foil and allow to cool and harden.
5. Break into bite-size pieces and mix with candy corn in a wide shallow bowl; set aside.
6. To make spiders, cut licorice into 2 inch lengths.
7. To make legs, starting at one end, make three ½ inch to ¾ inch cuts to make four legs.
8. Repeat cuts at opposite end.
9. Leave about ½ inch in center uncut.
10. Gently pull legs apart and curl down.
11. Push wooden pick through center of body, leaving about ¼ inch exposed on top.
12. Push one gumdrop onto exposed pick to make a body.
13. Using writing tip of decorating icing, squeeze two small dots of icing into gumbrops.
14. Press jaw-breakers into icing to make eyes.
15. Place"spiders" and worm-shaped candies in popcorn.
16. Remove wooden picks before eating.

[edit] See also