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Diet Theme Pumpkin Popcorn Kids Halloween Yield: 4
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cup Sugar
1 cup Light corn syrup
2 tbl 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 qt Popped popcorn remove any
unpopped kernels
1 cup Candy corn
Licorice ropes black
wooden picks
1 sm black gum drops or other small black candies
red decorating icing
tiny red jaw-breakers candy
wormshape candies
Method:
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" lengths. To make legs, starting at
one end, make three 1/2" to 3/4" cuts to make four legs. Repeat cuts at
opposite end. Leave about 1/2" in center uncut. Gently pull legs apart
and curl down. Push wooden pick through center of body, leaving about
1/4" 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.
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