Decorated Popcorn Balls
Here's a fun decorating project for Halloween. Kids are so creative you just don't know what they will come up with, but it will certainly be fun and perhaps a bit spooky.
Go to your local drugstore or grocery and buy a selection of candies—gummy worms or gummy string for hair, broken chocolate pretzels for ears, lollipops for eyes, or cut out fruit strips for lips or eyes—the possibilities are endless. Candy body parts are attached using purchased frosting.
Popcorn Ball Recipe
8 cups popped corn
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup water
1/3 cup corn syrup (light or dark)
1/4 tsp. salt
In a saucepan, stir sugar, water, corn syrup and salt until dissolved. On medium heat stir constantly until mixture reaches the hard candy stage (250 degrees on a candy thermometer) or a drip of the mixture turns hard when dripped into cold water.
Pour hot mixture over popcorn and mix, coating the popcorn. Cool only a few minutes. Butter hands liberally and shape mixture into 3 or 4 inch balls. Mixture will still be hot, so work quickly.
Decorate as suggested above. |
