Haystacks, the EASY candy

OLS · 11-26-2008, 11:47 AM

My mom makes these all the time, well, holidays, anyway, and the other day, Chow mein noodles were on a display at the mart, so I got them, found the cashews and a bag or two of butterscotch chips. If you have no double boiler to melt the chips, just nuke em, BUT WATCH EM! These F'ers burn long before the whole container is melty, so stir every 15 secs or so if Nuke-ro-waving. Anyway, just mix a bag of chow mein noodles and a can of cashews in a bowl, then stir in your melted butterscotch chips(bag, bag and a half), and keep stirring til the dry stuff is coated and pretty evenly sticky. Then just form/drop little haystacks onto wax paper and let cool. YOU talk about GOOD! NO salt or sugar or nothing, but the noodles have just that hint of salt so they are really excellent. Three ingredients and no real work. What a candy/cookie. If you like em, let me know. These are LITTLE KNOWN, and I am happy to have people get into them like I do. They seem to be good in their un-browned form when you have a double boiler, or the slightly caramelized version of "nearly burnt the chips in the micro". If you accidentally burn a patch of chips, just scoop it away before mixing. NO WAY do you try to salvage burnt parts. but darker than normal brown is OK.

11-26-2008, 11:47 AM	#1
OLS Suck It Join Date: Oct 2008 First Name: Brad Location: TN Posts: 7,912 Trading: (19)	Haystacks, the EASY candy My mom makes these all the time, well, holidays, anyway, and the other day, Chow mein noodles were on a display at the mart, so I got them, found the cashews and a bag or two of butterscotch chips. If you have no double boiler to melt the chips, just nuke em, BUT WATCH EM! These F'ers burn long before the whole container is melty, so stir every 15 secs or so if Nuke-ro-waving. Anyway, just mix a bag of chow mein noodles and a can of cashews in a bowl, then stir in your melted butterscotch chips(bag, bag and a half), and keep stirring til the dry stuff is coated and pretty evenly sticky. Then just form/drop little haystacks onto wax paper and let cool. YOU talk about GOOD! NO salt or sugar or nothing, but the noodles have just that hint of salt so they are really excellent. Three ingredients and no real work. What a candy/cookie. If you like em, let me know. These are LITTLE KNOWN, and I am happy to have people get into them like I do. They seem to be good in their un-browned form when you have a double boiler, or the slightly caramelized version of "nearly burnt the chips in the micro". If you accidentally burn a patch of chips, just scoop it away before mixing. NO WAY do you try to salvage burnt parts. but darker than normal brown is OK.