Butterscotch Chow Mein Candy
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If you’re looking for a super simple recipe to make with your little ones, this one is basically fool proof and so fun for toddlers!
You will need: Bag of butterscotch chips, little bit of shortening, and chow mein noodles!
Pour chips into saucepan. (You can easily microwave this if you’d rather)
Add one tablespoon of shortening.
Stir over low heat until melted.
Pour in Chow Mein noodles.
Stir until it looks like this!
Spoon onto waxed paper and let dry until hardened.
YUMM!! These Butterscotch Chow Mein Candies are super simple and my kids go crazy over them! A great cooking project for any kid to do with their parents!
Gail: I called my mother and read your comment to her over the phone. We both agree that we LOVE your thinking! I think we may be related – that would explain the fluid retention on our side, too!
Landon’s mommy: I know just what you mean! I have seen such amazing variations posted here, I am going to have to make tons of these at Christmas and try all of them! these are my son’s thing, so he’ll be thrilled to have more opportunities to be in the kitchen!
Oh my gosh, I didn’t think anyone outside of my family knew this recipe! 🙂 These treats have been a staple at family get togethers for as long as I can remember. We’ve always called them Haystacks…and Christmas isn’t Christmas without a BIG batch of Haystacks! 🙂
We’ve been known to have a batch of chocolate and a batch of butterscotch haystacks…and we’ve also done many different variations other bloggers have posted about: adding marshmallows or peanuts. One year my aunt added peanuts and raisin to the butterscotch batch. My favorite’s still the plain ‘ol butterscotch ones, though!
Christy,
I couldn’t imagine the holidays without making these…we call them haystacks or spiders. I mix the butterscotch chips with a bag of milk chocolate chips and add a small bag of chopped salted peanuts (no skins). I’ve never had to add shortening to mine either. My kids (most are grown now) love these and two of them cook them every year at their house. I see so many of my favorite recipes here. I’ve been cooking like a fool all week. The scale was up two pounds this morning. Has to be fluid retention…can’t be all this good cooking;)
You know, I am going to have to try some of these variations, especially since this is such an easy recipe for Brady to do relatively on his own!
Thank you for the ideas!!
When I was a kid, we used half chocolate and half butterscotch, too, but instead of peanuts we added marshmallows. I love recipes that are so forgiving of substitutions!
I have to try these new twists on this! Brady will be thrilled!!
I add the crisco just to make the chips a bit runnier, it stirs and spreads over it a bit easier, but it is not required in any way!
Chocolate and butterscotch…….oh my! We may make more this weekend…
We used to eat these years ago when I was a kid, but we didn’t use Crisco. I bet that makes them easier to adhere to the noodles, though. We used half butterscotch and half chocolate chips, and added some peanuts. I fixed it one night when I was in college and ate the entire batch myself… LOL