Monster Green Popcorn Food

MONSTER GREEN POPCORN

Steps:

• Heat oven to 300°F.
• Cover rimmed baking sheet with foil; spray with cooking spray. Place popcorn in large bowl.
• Cook butter and corn syrup in small saucepan on low heat until butter is melted, stirring occasionally. Add sugar, cream and dry gelatin mix; cook and stir 2 to 3 min. or gelatin is completely dissolved. Bring to boil on medium heat, stirring constantly; simmer on low heat 5 min., stirring frequently. Remove from heat. Add food coloring; mix well. Pour immediately over popcorn; toss to evenly coat popcorn with glaze. Spread onto prepared baking sheet, using 2 forks to evenly spread popcorn onto bottom of prepared baking sheet.
• Bake 20 min.; cool completely.
• Meanwhile, place sprinkles in small bowl. Melt chocolate as directed on package. Dip tops of ice cream cones, 1 at a time, into chocolate, then into sprinkles, gently tapping cone after dipping in chocolate to remove any excess chocolate. Place in single layer in parchment-lined pan. Refrigerate until chocolate coating is firm. Reserve remaining melted chocolate for later use.
• Pour reserved melted chocolate into small resealable plastic bag; cut small piece off one bottom corner of bag. Use to secure candy eyes to cones as shown in photo. Draw the mouths with remaining chocolate. Let stand 15 min. or until chocolate is firm.
• Break glazed popcorn into small pieces; place in prepared cones. Serve any remaining glazed popcorn on the side.

CARAMEL APPLE MONSTER MUNCH

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a large heavy-bottom pot over medium heat until very hot and shimmering. Add the popcorn and immediately cover with a lid. Shake the pot constantly, holding the lid on with a heatproof holder, until the popping starts, about 1 minute. Reduce the heat to medium and continue to shake the pot until the popping slows to just a few per 5 seconds, 1 to 2 minutes more. Remove from the heat and let stand for another minute to allow any last kernels to pop.
• Spray a very large bowl with nonstick cooking spray. Put the popcorn in the bowl and remove any unpopped kernels. Add the peanuts. Spray a rubber heatproof spatula with the cooking spray and place next to the bowl.
• Combine the brown sugar, butter, corn syrup and salt in a medium saucepan and set over medium heat. Cook, stirring, until melted and the edges of the mixture begin to bubble. Clip a candy thermometer to the pan so the bottom of the thermometer is resting in the sugar syrup but not touching the bottom of the pan. Boil, stirring, until the thermometer registers 300 degrees F (the hard-crack stage), about 8 minutes.
• Turn off the burner and add the vanilla. Stir briefly--about 5 seconds--being careful not to burn yourself as the mixture bubbles up.
• Immediately pour the caramel evenly over the popcorn and quickly stir with the prepared rubber spatula until the pieces are mostly separated, about 3 minutes. Pull apart any larger clumps, being careful because the caramel will still be hot in spots. Stir in the apple chips.

SLIME POPCORN

Steps:

• Pour popcorn into a large bowl.
• Melt brown sugar and butter together in a saucepan over medium heat, stirring often. Stir in marshmallows until melted and smooth. Stir in green food coloring until color is evenly distributed. Pour mixture over popcorn and stir until evenly coated. Sprinkle in candy eyeballs.

HALLOWEEN POPCORN HANDS

Steps:

• Push 1 piece of candy corn, pointed side forward, into the ends of each finger and thumb of the plastic gloves to make fingernails. Mix remaining 25 candy corn pieces with popped popcorn in a bowl. Fill the remaining space in the fingers and hands of the gloves with the mixture, pushing the popcorn mix into the voids. Leave a little space at the wrists. Tie each popcorn hand at the wrist with a twist tie. Serve on a platter and scatter plastic insects around the hands.