Ingredients:
- 1½ cups sugar
- 1 cup light corn syrup
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1½ teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon green food color (optional)
- 3½ quarts popped popcorn (remove any unpopped kernels)
- 1 cup candy corn
- Licorice ropes (black)
- Small black gum drops or other small black candies
- Red decorating icing
- Tiny red jaw-breakers candy
- Worm shaped candies
Directions
In a Dutch oven, bring sugar, corn syrup and butter to a boil; boil 2½ minutes. Stir in pumpkin pie spice, vanilla, salt and food coloring (if desired) mix until evenly colored. Add popcorn and toss until evenly coated.
Spread popcorn mixture in a single layer on greased sheets of foil and allow to cool and harden. Break into bite-size pieces and mix with candy corn in a wide shallow bowl; set aside.
To make spiders, cut licorice into 2 inch lengths. To make legs, starting at one end, make three ½ inch to ¾ inch cuts to make four legs. Repeat cuts at opposite end. Leave about ½ inch in center uncut. Gently pull legs apart and curl down.
Push a wooden pick through center of body, leaving about ¼ inch exposed on top. Push one gumdrop onto exposed pick to make a body. Using writing tip of decorating icing, squeeze two small dots of icing into gumdrops. Press jaw-breakers into icing to make eyes.
Place "spiders" and worm-shaped candies in popcorn.
Remove wooden picks before eating.