Noelene's Christmas Puffs

For me this is a long awaited recipe. Until this week I have only been treated to this little treasure when dear Noelene C. makes them for Christmas and she and Kent come around with their friendly, Christmas greetings and treats. You have to trust me on this one since many of you may not have been as fortunate to taste these. Make them!! Delicious, fast, easy, unique. . . just what we all need these last few days before Christmas. Now, having said that there may be one very big stumbling block, the key ingredient. Not easy to find but trust Noelene to do just that and gift me with 3 bags of corn puffs-Krogers hulless Corn Puff Poppers-extreme BUTTER. Just snacking on these alone made my hips groan as they started spreading. This is what you start immediately hunting down, hopefully you can find them in Arizona at Fry's, Utah will be Smith's and Oregon maybe Fred Meyer's. You need 2 bags for one recipe "batch". SLK is already stopping by a Fry's on the way home from work to purchase more bags.
Recipe:

2 bags (8 oz. each) corn puffs (avoid chesse puffs!)

1 lb. (4 sticks) butter

2 c. sugar

1/4 c. water

Place puffs in two large pans, a turkey roasting pan is great.

Mix butter, sugar and water in large heavy saucepan. Bring to boil over medium high heat stirring constantly. Boil for 7 minutes stirring constantly unless you need to quickly grab your camera and take a picture of what you're doing for your blog but be quick about it. I think I boiled mine 7.25 minutes for good measure.
Pour this delightfully, buttery concoction over the puffs and try to stir and coat well, not easy.

Now don't get to caught up with too much stirring because if you're quick you can rush to the sauce pan and scrap out the leftover buttery concoction. Once it cools it's really hard and you just have to soak the pan and then clean it. But if you get to it in the still-kinda-soft stage you can drag your spoon or even your nails around and have a party. Am I making you kind of sick. Too bad.

Now as it cools you can break it into pieces of appropriate size, whatever that is and then bag and give to delighted friends, family and neighbors. But, if while breaking apart into appropriate size you find one of these gooey bunches with extra goo, don't break it apart, it has your name on it for being the go-to girl or boy that made this and you get to eat it.

I'd love to hear from you if you make this. Merry Christmas all. Thanks for sharing Noelene!