What does candy corn go with?
If you like salty and sweet types of snacks, you will love this recipe for Candy Corn Snack Mix. The sweetness of the chocolate chips and candy corn go perfectly with the salty peanuts. When you mix the ingredients together, you get the taste of a Snickers candy bar.
Why are candy corns called candy corn?
Oral histories identify the inventor of candy corn as George Renninger, an employee at Wunderle Candy Company in Philadelphia. In 1898, Goelitz picked up the recipe and started marketing the kernels as a candy called “Chicken Feed,” writes Rebecca Rupp in National Geographic.
Is there peanuts in candy corn?
Most candy corn seems to carry peanut and/or tree nut allergy warnings, such as the Brach brand, which is widely available but off-limits to the nut-allergic.
What does candy corn and peanuts taste like?
I had a co-worker who made this snack mix every fall. It is like crack. She called it PayDay mix because the combination of the salty peanuts and the candy corn tastes like the candy bar PayDay. Mock PayDay Bar Mix is totally easy and totally delicious.
What’s the best way to eat candy corn?
As it happens, the most popular way to eat a piece of candy corn is simply popping the whole shebang into your mouth and eating it all at once (gulp) in its entirety.
Is Brach’s candy corn peanut free?
This product was manufactured in a facility where milk, eggs, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat and soy are used in the production of other products.
Can you digest candy corn?
But one reader said there’s a not-so-secret candy corn mix that’s addicting and makes candy corn tolerable to digest. All you have to do is mix a small bag of candy corn with a can of salted, dry-roasted peanuts in a bowl – at least 50-50, but maybe try 60-40 peanuts.
Is candy corn bad?
A serving size of candy corn — 19 pieces—is 140 calories and 28 grams of sugar. Since candy corn comes in a bag (and not in smaller portions), this one doesn’t get very high marks. “If you have three pieces, it’s not so bad, but most people don’t do that,” says Rizzo.