Halloween Pumpkin Popcorn Balls

Popcorn always goes great at a Halloween party. These are festive and make great table decorations even at Thanksgiving and they taste darn good too! You can spruce them up with some frosting leaves or decorate them with scary faces with the kids either way a fun and easy project.

Popcorn marshmallow balls:

Old Fashioned way:

Add vegetable oil to a 4 quart saucepan, and heat over high heat. When oil is hot, add popping corn. Keep pan moving constantly. When corn stops popping, remove from heat. Put popcorn in prepared pan.

• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 1/2 cup unpopped popcorn approximately 8 cups of popped
• Grease a 9x13 inch baking dish. Set aside.
• Popcorn options:
• Microwave the popcorn or use a hot air popper.
• Marshmallow Recipe:
• 6 tablespoons butter
• 5 cups miniature marshmallows
• Red and yellow food coloring (use 2 drops of red 3 drops of yellow)
• Optional flavoring: 1 or 2 cinnamon oil drops, orange extract or any other flavor you like to add
• Garnish for making the pumpkin:
• mini tootsie rolls
• eyeball candies
• optional: sprinkles, melted chocolate to dip bottoms with
• nuts chopped, candy corn, m & m for eyes. Also green frosting to make leaves for stem on pumpkin

Melt butter In a medium saucepan over low heat. Stir in orange food coloring(mixture of red and yellow) marshmallows and cook until melted, stirring constantly. Pour marshmallow mixture over popcorn and mix with spoon to coat evenly.

Let mixture cool slightly. Smear butter on your hands or spray with non-stick cooking spray. Mix popcorn with your hands so that it is evenly coated.

Form popcorn into 8 balls or make mini ones. I used a ceramic measuring cup to form mine. Add mini tootsie rolls and candy corn to decorate or whatever you like with options above.