Kelly Ripas Popcorn Snowman Recipes

Steps:

• Melt butter or margarine in saucepan over medium-low heat.
• Add the marshmallows, stirring with a wooden spoon until melted.
• You can add food coloring if you want to make color popcorn snowmen.
• Pour mixture over 15 cups of popcorn and stir to coat evenly.
• When the mixture is cool enough to touch, rub a little margarine on your hands (or dishwasher gloves) and start making balls.
• For each snowman, stack 3 popcorn balls on top of each other on a sheet of wax paper.
• Push pretzel sticks in the middle for arms.
• Use the rest of the candy (mini jawbreakers, gumdrops, red hots, raisins, fruit leather, candy corn, M&M's, etc) to decorate the eyes, nose, mouth and buttons.

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, melt the butter over low heat.
• Add the marshmallows and cook, stirring often, until melted and syrupy, about 5 minutes.
• Place the popped popcorn in a large lightly greased shallow pan.
• Pour the syrup over the popcorn, tossing to coat evenly.
• While still warm, form 6 balls about 5" in diameter for the coated popcorn for the bottom sections, giving the balls flat bases so the snowmen will stand.
• Form 6 balls about 3-1/2" in diameter for the middle sections.
• Then form 6 balls about 2" in diameter for the top sections.
• Stir in the confectioners sugar and milk together until smooth (skip this step if using pre-made frosting).
• Use the icing to stack three popcorn balls of decreasing sizes into a snowman, then attach candies to decorate.
• (Gumdrops for hats, Fruit leather for scarves, cinnamon candies for eyes etc).