Critters in the Hay Critters in the Hay 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  Licorice ropes; black  Wooden picks  Small black gum drops or other small black candies  Red decorating icing  Tiny red jaw-breakers candy  Wormshape candies    Procedure In Dutch oven, bring sugar,corn syrup and butter to aboil; 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.  Serving Information Serves: Fat: g Calories: Angel_Juli         This webset page was assembled on Sunday June 15, 2008 by BuzyS. with graphics from Hemera using one of the many auto-scripters available at  Chat_Central_Gateway  All rights reserved KENDOC 2005