Caramel Suckers!!! Just like having your own Sugar Daddy, but better!

Caramel Suckers........Just Like Having Your Own Homemade Sugar Daddy

* You CAN use this recipe for dipping Caramel or Caramel apples......it all has to do with what temperature to cook it to.

220 degrees for runnier Caramel perfect for apple dippers or on top of ice cream

234 degrees for Caramel Apples on a stick

245-250 degrees for stiffer Caramel Suckers or Caramel Squares.

This Caramel recipe comes from my sister LaVon's best friend Korrie who has some of the BEST recipes. Whenever I eat something extremely good at LaVons it usually is a concoction from Korrie!!!! These suckers are NOT rock hard, but still have a bit of chew to them, but they keep there shape. Yum Yum Yummmy!!! I made this batch for my mom to sell some Caramel Suckers at her Holiday Boutique.

Supplies

1 can Sweetened Condensed Milk

2/3 Cup Heavy Whipping Cream

1/2 Cup Butter

1 Cup Karo Syrup

1 Cup Brown Sugar

1 Cup White Sugar

1 tsp Vanilla

Candy Thermometer

Glass measuring cup with spout...at least 4 cup capacity

Hard Candy Molds...............you will need about 5-7 molds for this size recipe

Sucker Sticks

Pam Spray

 

Start with getting your candy molds ready. Spray all cavities lightly with Pam and have all sticks ready. My Owl molds have space to put candy eyes......get that ready as well.

Let's get started!!!! Combine in a glass measuring cup the Sweetened Condensed Milk with Heavy Whipping Cream and stir until blended well. Set aside.

In a large pot combine Karo syrup, White Sugar and Brown Sugar. Mix and cook on a high heat.

Once mixture starts boiling add butter. Once butter is melted allow mixture to achieve a hard boil, then turn down to a medium/high heat.

Gradually add condensed milk/heavy cream mixture so that it always has a slight boil. Make sure you are stirring constantly. Once all the cream mixture is added (clean measuring cup for later use) attach Candy Thermometer so that it is NOT touching the bottom, but is completely covered by the caramel mixture. Continue to stir until you reach desired temperature. See temperature chart at begining of post. You may have to turn heat up slightly, but don't go too high or you will burn it. It may take 7-10 minutes to reach the right temperature. Be patient. 

Once you reach desired temperature...remove pot from heat and stir in vanilla. Transfer caramel to glass measuring cup.

If you are making caramel apples.....you can start dipping and swirling them in the pot right now. If you want caramel squares.....put it in a deep cookie sheet lined with wax paper or a Pam sprayed container.

To make Suckers....................................

Start pouring Caramel into candy molds slowly until you get the hang of it's thickness.

Let Caramel set up for 2-3 hours inside molds.

Pop them out and

Hooray......Your cute Owl Caramel Suckers are done. Place them in sucker bags and crank the twist ties on.

This Caramel recipe has made me many friends. Enjoy!!!

We've Been Booed!!! Part 2

Here is my version of the "We've been boo'ed" 

I created a nifty ghost owl that will hang on there doorknob. 

the ghost front even can be flipped up and you can see the whole owl. 

Each of them will receive (1) package of peppermint foot soak. I did a post on this earlier this month.

Each packet includes 1 soak worth = 1/4 cup of soak mix.

then I am also including (1) of the following goodie baggies

So much fun to be had

You've Been BOOED

You've Been BOOED

So we recieved a little treat the other day saying that we had been Booed. We are suppose to "Boo" other people and here are some of the fun Halloween treats we  came up with. We made 10 different bags full of 5 treats. The kids had such a fun knocking and running when they dropped the Boo bags on the front step.

I did this in one night and the kids and hubby helped........it is not going to be the cutest or fanciest treat bags made.... BUT the candy and concept are pretty cool. I used large bead bags or sandwich bags. Halloween print paper folded over and stapled. I printed off  Avery 5160 labels and used various fonts for the wording.

So so simple, but could be modified with a cricuit or stickers to be totally awesome.

Bubble, Bubble, Toil & Trouble
Bubblegum, gummy frogs, Chocolate eyeballs and a gummy spider. Could also be labeled as witches brew and make a cauldron to put them in.

Zombie Food
Chocolate ears, Big Toe, Eyeball, Mouth and a gummy Nose. My husband thought it should say "Zombies....Eat Flesh."

Pumpkin Poop
Orange and Black Jelly Beans. Many versions of this on the web.

Bride of Frankenstein
Ring Pop and a Chocolate Finger. I had fun with this one.....it's like Frankenstein robbed it from a grave and it still had the finger with it!

Witch Doctor "Tooth: Collection

Caramel Apple Candy Corns, candy teeth and pineapple candy slices

Witch Hair
Black candy licorice and a gummy spider

Pumpkin Smore Kit
1 mini Hershey bar, 1 Large Pumpkin marshmellow and 2 graham cracker halves.
I saw this with a ghost marshmellow, but I could only find the pumpkin ones at my store.

Owl Treats
Gummy worms in yellow, orange and brown

Vampire Teeth
Caramel Apple Candy Corns

Scabs
Peanutbutter cups...generic, but in brown, gold and copper wrappers

Pumpkin Seeds and Spider Eggs

Orange and White Tic Tacs.......I planned on the labels going the other way, but forgot to make the print smaller

And last, but not least my favorite

Treats from Hell

Devil head Cinnamon gummies and firehot balls