Holly Jolly Snowmen

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Prep time: 20 min.
Decoration time: 30 min.
Cooking time: 5 min.
Difficulty: Moderate

What you'll need:
1 bag M&M'S® Brand MINIS® Milk Chocolate Candies
4 DOVE® Brand Rich Dark Chocolates
20 cups of popped popcorn (equals 1 cup unpopped)
1 cup sugar
1 cup light corn syrup
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons butter
4 chocolate wafer cookies
1 tube white decorating frosting
4 wooden skewers
2 sheet pans

hat to do:
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Spread the popcorn on a sheet pan and place in oven to keep warm.
Combine the sugar, corn syrup and salt in a medium saucepan. Bring mixture to a boil over medium heat and cook until sugar is dissolved and mixture becomes thick, about 3 to 5 minutes. Add the butter and stir until melted. Remove from heat.
Transfer the popcorn to a very large bowl and toss with sugar mixture until completely coated. Stir in M&M'S® Brand MINIS® Milk Chocolate Candies, leaving a handful aside for decoration.
With well-buttered hands, shape the popcorn mixture into 3 different size balls: 2-inch balls, 3-inch balls and 5-inch balls.
Stack the popcorn balls in descending sizes, using a wooden skewer pressed through the center as the support. Make some snowmen using three different size balls and others with only two different size balls for variation.
Use decorating frosting to attach M&M'S® Brand MINIS® Milk Chocolate Candies for scarves, buttons and faces. To make the hat, stack a DOVE® Brand Rich Dark Chocolate on top of a chocolate wafer and attach it with frosting.
Makes 4 snowmen (approximately 4 servings).