Halloween-Candy Corn: Homemade Candy Corn

If Candy Corn was a person, I'd be arrested for stalking.  I mean, I'm obsessed.  Fortunately, I've convinced myself it's a seasonal candy.  Please don't tell myself it's not.  In the fall, I can't resist it.  It's too late for intervention.  First, I buy a bag, and I spend about a week smelling it before I open it.  I mean, really, I sit it on my desk at work and I pick it up about 15 times a day just to smell the sweet goodness.  Yes, while it's still closed....I don't want anyone to be disturbed if they ever ate any I provided....not that the rest of this isn't disturbing, but AT LEAST it's not germy.  And then I usually buy a can of peanuts, and I mix the sweet candy corns with the salty peanuts.  I invent a reason why I need people to meet in my room at work.  I give them half a dixie cup of candy corn, and then eat the rest all by myself.  And then I spend the next 364 days complaining about how I can't lose any weight even though I try really hard, I mean, April 14, 2008 I even brought my gym bag to work and thought about working out.  I must just have one of those slow metabolism thingies.  As if I don't have enough quirks, and obsessions, Making Memories With your Kids had to go and make a homemade version of my very favorite treat, (not to be confused with Skittles and Cadberry Eggs, my other very favorite treats).  This is her fun recipe, with fun color twist for for all the holidays.....and if that isn't the best bad news my diet ever heard...I don't know what else would be. The best part is, the recipe worked exactly as she said it would.  I love that! 

Here's the recipe for Homemade Candy Corns. 
Ingredients:  1 c. sugar, 2/3 c. light corn syrup, 1/3 c. butter, 1 t. clear vanilla, 2 1/2 c. powdered sugar, 1/3 c. powdered milk, 1/4 t. salt, food coloring. 
Instructions:
1. In a saucepan, combine sugar, butter, corn syrup.  Cook on high heat, stir constantly and bring to boil.  Reduce to medium/low heat and cook 5 min. more.  Stir occasionally.  Remove from heat and add vanilla. 
2.  Sift powdered sugar, powdered milk, salt into pan, and mix thoroughly.  Allow dough to cool 30 minutes. 
3.  Divide into 3 parts, add 3 drops of yellow to one, 2 drops of yellow and one drop of red to make the orange, and leave the third white.  It felt sort of like playdough, and I just kneaded it into the color I liked. 

4.  Roll into slender rope.  Line ropes together, and cut into triangles with a sharp knife. 

5. Let the candies dry for 1-2 hours until hardened so they don't stick together.  I also made a few 'bigger candy corns' and I slipped them on sticks to make candy corn suckers. 

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