My adventure for today was super cute Jack-O-Lantern popcorn balls. It began several days ago in attempting to locate corn syrup, which they evidently do not sell here. "No problem," I thought. A little google and wallah - a recipe (it's basically sugar syrup).
Next we popped our own popcorn (this is very simple, but I felt quite accomplished). So far, so good.
Then the next step...was to make candy syrup to make the popcorn stick. This was not so simple, and it took FOREVER! I have a whole new appreciation for candy makers. After forty-five minutes of boiling a sugar mixture, food coloring, and several burned fingers (complete with blisters), we had some sticky candied popcorn!
The end result tasted yummy... the presentation needs a bit of work! And the clean up...let's just say I married an amazing man who diligently worked to chip away at some very hard candied pans so I could nurse my poor fingers (which will be recovering for the next few days) and saving our pans. But, we do have one very happy toddler! And we even thought we'd share with workers at the Kid's Club tonight.
I'd say you ARE Betty Crocker, Shannon! Making your own corn syrup?! Way to go girl! And Jack O'Lantern popcorn balls complete with cute little tags---I probably would have given up when I couldn't find the corn syrup in the store. Mom-Power!
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