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     Title: Critters in the Hay
Categories: Popcorn, Holidays, Kids, Halloween
     Yield: 4 quarts

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 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

 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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