Happy National Popcorn Poppin’ Month everyone! To help with the celebration I asked my friend Lauren to create some spooktacular Halloween goodies using a Kathy Kaye™ Popcorn Ball available at your local Walmart. Simply follow the step by step instructions to enjoy some holiday fun that is sure to be all Treat and no Trick!
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Creations by Lauren Whiting
Pumpkin
Materials Needed:
Kathy Kaye™ Popcorn Ball available at Walmart, orange and green food coloring, tootsie roll, melted chocolate, green laffy taffy (dilute food coloring with a little almond extract for flavor).
- Paint the Popcorn Ball with orange food coloring and let it dry.
- Mold the tootsie roll to look like a stem, give it a little bend, attach to top of popcorn with melted chocolate.
- Mold the green Laffy Taffy to look like a leaf, use melted chocolate to attach.
- Paint some veins on the leaf with green food coloring. Looks so real
EEK! Spider
Materials Needed:
Kathy Kaye™ Popcorn Ball available at Walmart, white chocolate, mini Oreos, black string licorice, pink Laffy Taffy, candy eyes, dark chocolate to write with.
- Dip the Popcorn Ball in melted white chocolate wafers and let dry in the fridge for a few minutes.
- Stick a mini Oreo cookie on top of the popcorn ball and attach with a dab of melted chocolate.
- Bend the black string licorice to form its legs and attach with melted chocolate.
- Shape the tongue out of pink Laffy Taffy and then paint a dab of chocolate in the middle of the tongue to accent it, attach with melted chocolate.
- Paint the word “EEK” with some dark chocolate.
Jack-O-Lantern
Materials needed:
Kathy Kaye™ Popcorn Ball available at Walmart, orange chocolate, tootsie roll, dark chocolate.
- Dip the Popcorn Ball in melted orange chocolate wafers and let dry in fridge for a bit.
- Form the stem out of the tootsie roll and attach with orange melted chocolate.
- Draw the face with a paintbrush using dark chocolate.
Eyeball
Materials Needed:
Kathy Kaye™ Popcorn Ball available at Walmart, dipping chocolate or almond bark, red string licorice, candy eye (or mini marshmallow and mini chocolate chip)
- Dip the Popcorn Ball in white chocolate, almond bark or leave it plain.
- Cut strips of red string licorice to create the veins of the eyeball and attach using melted chocolate.
- Attach candy eye using melted chocolate, (which you can purchase where they sell cake decorating supplies or take a mini marshmallow and attach on a mini chocolate chip.)
Crazy Goon
Materials Needed:
Kathy Kaye™ Popcorn Ball available at Walmart, green food coloring, purple, pink and yellow Laffy Taffy, black string licorice (dilute food coloring with a little almond extract for flavor)
- Paint the Popcorn Ball with green food coloring and let dry for a few minutes.
- Flatten out the purple Laffy Taffy to form the face and center it on the ball then attach with melted chocolate.
- Form mouth out of the pink Laffy Taffy and attach with melted chocolate.
- Attach candy corns for the arms with melted chocolate.
- Mold yellow Laffy Taffy into cylinders to form three legs for the Goon and attach with melted chocolate.
- Cut strips of black string licorice, dip end in melted chocolate and attach on top of its head.
- Last but not least create his sight with five candy eyes.
Goofy Monster
Materials Needed:
Kathy Kaye™ Popcorn Ball available at Walmart, purple, yellow and red food coloring, candy eyes, pink Laffy Taffy, cheese puffs and candy corn (dilute food coloring with a little almond extract for flavor).
- Paint the Popcorn Ball with purple food coloring, and let it dry a bit.
- Paint the whites of the candy eyes with yellow food coloring and let dry for a minute.
- Form the tongue out of softened pink Laffy Taffy and paint a strip of red food coloring to form a crease. Attach to the Popcorn Ball with melted chocolate.
- Attach the cheese curls on for arms using melted chocolate.
- Using melted chocolate attach the candy corn on the monsters head.
Kooky Witch
Materials Needed:
Kathy Kaye™ Popcorn Ball available at Walmart, green food coloring, candy eyes, candy corn, red string licorice, tootsie rolls, black string licorice, chocolate waffle cone, orange food coloring and M&M’s (dilute food coloring with a little almond extract for flavoring).
- Paint the Popcorn Ball with green food coloring and let it dry a bit.
- Soften the tootsie roll and mold into a hat brim.
- Wrap the red string licorice around the tootsie rolls (for the legs) and attach with toothpicks. (If you do this first, it will prevent the ball from rolling )
- Cut the black string licorice and attach to the sides with melted chocolate.
- Attach the molded brim to the ball and then cut the chocolate waffle cone to even the opening, (using scissors), so it sets on top of the brim.
- Paint the trim around the hat with orange chocolate.
- Attach the M&M’s to the orange trim while still melted.
- Attach candy eyes, candy corn nose, and a red string licorice frowny face using melted chocolate.
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