Candy I Will Never Make Again, Part II

I am pleased to present Act II of Candy I Will Never Make Again. This candy was not planned. We really wanted to make Butterscotch Haystacks. For those of you who have been under a rock, haystacks are made with crunchy chow mein noodles and melted butterscotch chips. After mixing in all up, you drop them into...wait for it, little "haystacks". No, I haven't been drinking but that might help. So, I guess we waited late about getting the chow mein noodles. A week ago we began our search. On Monday my husband visited the 11th grocery store. Sold out again. I had no idea that these little treats were that popular. Maybe it's just the ease of making them, who knows. All I knew was that I had butterscotch chips and nothing to do with them. This afternoon I turned to my husband and said what about popcorn. "For what?" "For the haystacks silly." "Hmm, yeah I guess. You could call them 'popstacks'." After graciously, OK not so graciously, popping my popcorn (I have microwavable popcorn issues) off he goes to his brother's house. Good thing. I had, let's just say a fit, over these stupid little "popstacks".

First of all, my butterscotch would not melt properly. No worries, a little shortening will fix that. No dice. That's weird. Oh well, onward. I should have seen this as a sign to abandon ship immediately and make more fudge. I dumped the glop of hot butterscotch into a big bowl, mixed it up. Everything looked fine so far. Then, I tried to drop it into little balls. OMG!!! It would not stick together. Ok, what am I'm going to do? The captain goes down with the ship right? After several minutes of pleading the popcorn to hold together with my hand and a spoon, I got out my ice cream scooper. I packed the mixture using the back of a spoon and carefully plopped the little domes out. Seemed OK, for about 3 min. Oh well, I got probably a dozen, very fragile, clementine sized mounds.

They are very tasty, buttery and sweet. Not worth it to me though. It probably took 2 years off my life and if you factor in college and working with teenagers everyday I don't have that many more years to waste.

Makes ~1 dozen mounds

11oz butterscotch chips, melted
2 (3.3oz) bags popcorn, popped and cooled.

1. Mix the ingredients together and somehow, magically form little mounds on wax paper. (I used the packed ice cream scoop/pleading method)