Critters in the Hay

Ingredients

 * 1 1/2 cup Sugar
 * 1 cup light corn syrup
 * 2 tbsp butter
 * 1 1/2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
 * 1 tsp vanilla
 * 1/2 tsp salt
 * 1/2 tsp Green food color(optional)
 * 3 1/2 quart Popped popcorn, remove any -unpopped kernals
 * 1 cup 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

Directions
1 In dutch oven, bring Sugar,corn syrup and butter to a boil; boil 2 ½ minutes. 2 Stir in pumpkin pie spice,vanilla,salt and food coloring(if desired) mix until evenly colored. 3 Add popcorn and toss until evenly coated. 4 Spread popcorn mixture in a single layer on greased sheets of foil and allow to cool and harden. 5 Break into bite-size pieces and mix with candy corn in a wide shallow bowl; set aside. 6 To make spiders, cut licorice into 2 inch lengths. 7 To make legs, starting at one end, make three ½ inch to ¾ inch cuts to make four legs. 8 Repeat cuts at opposite end. 9 Leave about ½ inch in center uncut. 10 Gently pull legs apart and curl down. 11 Push wooden pick through center of body, leaving about ¼ inch exposed on top. 12 Push one gumdrop onto exposed pick to make a body. 13 Using writing tip of decorating icing, squeeze two small dots of icing into gumbrops. 14 Press jaw-breakers into icing to make eyes. 15 Place"spiders" and worm-shaped candies in popcorn. 16 Remove wooden picks before eating. 17 Makes 4 quarts

Ingredients

 * 3  egg whites
 * dash salt
 * 1 2/3 cups firmly packed, light brown sugar, sifted
 * 1/2 tsp vanilla
 * 1 cup roasted & chopped Oregon hazelnuts (about 4 ounces)
 * 2 cups corn flakes

Directions
1 Beat egg whites and salt together until soft peaks form. 2 Gradually add brown sugar, about 3 Tablespoons at a time, beating well after each addition. 3 Fold in vanilla, hazelnuts and corn flakes. 4 Drop by heaping teaspoonsful onto greased baking sheets. 5 Bake in a 325 oven for 20 minutes, or until lightly browned.