Popcorn snowman
Popcorn snowman recipe in the christmas category
Recipe ingredients:
- 32 cups popcorn, about 1 1/2 cups unpopped
- 4 cups sugar
- 1 1/3 cups light corn syrup
- 1 cup margarine or butter
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/3 cups water
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/3 cup confectioners sugar
- 2 cherry or raspberry flavor chewy fruit rolls
- 1/2 pound green gumdrops
- 2 purple gumdrops
- 3 dark seedless raisins
Recipe method:
- Place popped corn in a large open roasting pan and set in 225 degrees F oven to keep warm.
- Meanwhile, in a 5 quart Dutch oven over medium heat, heat sugar, corn syrup, margarine or butter, salt and water to boiling, stirring constantly until sugar completely dissolves.
- Set candy thermometer in place and continue cooking, without stirring, until temperature reaches 250 degrees F or hard ball stage.
- Remove saucepan from heat. Quickly stir in vanilla.
- Pour hot syrup mixture over popcorn, tossing to coat well.
- Set aside about 2 cups popcorn mixture for snowman’s hat.
- Wearing clean rubber gloves, for handling hot mixture, shape remaining mixture popcorn into 2 balls, one slightly larger.
- On large plate, place smaller popcorn ball on top of larger popcorn ball to form snowman’s body.
- Shape reserved popcorn mixture into coneshaped hat. Place on top of snowman’s head.
- In a mall bowl, mix confectioner’s sugar with 1 1/4 teaspoons water to form a thick pasty frosting.
- Cut snowman’s mouth from fruit roll.
- Cut remaining fruit rolls into strips. Attach strips around neck for scarf and on hat for decoration.
- With frosting, attach one green gumdrop to snowman’s face for nose and 2 purple gumdrops for eyes.
- With frosting, attach remaining green gumdrops around base and on tip of hat.
- With frosting, attach raisins to snowman’s body for buttons.
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