Guest Blogger! Butterscotch Chow Mein Candy
Today we have our first guest blogger! My son, Brady, has always loved to tinker about in the kitchen. He comes up with fabulous recipes (like when he slices bananas, mixes them with raisins, and tops our waffles with them!). This is his favorite candy to make and so I am very pleased to introduce him as Southern Plate’s first guest blogger!
You will need: Bag of butterscotch chips, little bit of shortening, and chow mein noodles!
Stir until it looks like this!
YUMM!! These are super simple and my kids go crazy over them! A great cooking project for any kid to do with their parents!
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Tomorrow, I’m going to give you a recipe that is economical, delicious, men ♥ it, kids ♥ it, AND it will save you from having to cook this weekend!
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Posted by Christy Jordan
on Jul 17 2008. Filed under Dessert, Holiday Favorites!, Misc, Southern Plate Kids.
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These treats are always yummy and so easy to make! I am glad to have the reminder and will probably be making some this weekend. Glad to see little ones getting to start cooking/baking early!
Thank you for reading!! My son would be in the kitchen every day if I let him! Unfortunately, with only 5×8 feet floor space, its not too conducive to family cooking experiences!
Have a great weekend and enjoy your candy!
Hi Christy , I love my kids helping out in the kitchen. Our space is small as well but I can never keep them out. It so funny all it takes is the sound of the mixer going and they come a running. I love that candy and its so simple to make. Great post.
Hi chef Brady!!
That’s the best candy recipe I’ve ever seen.
It sounds and looks very tasty, and I’m sure I’ll give it a try soon, because now I want to eat them too!
Thanks for sharing and keep on cooking
Mommy’s Kitchen: Thank you for reading Brady’s post! He is thrilled with all the comments! He’s famous now! ~grins~
Someday we’ll have the kitchens we deserve…
That’s the cutest guest blogger I’ve ever seen!
These look good! I’ve done something similar, except I used chocolate chips, then turned the mass of chocolaty chow mein noodles into nest shapes and filled them with mini robin eggs and marshmallow Peeps for Easter. I’ll definitely have to thy these with butterscotch chips. Yumm!
Stephanie:
You know, I keep looking at that pic and thinking about how cute he is. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve pulled up my site just to see that cute little pic, lol! I’m so biased but at least you agree!
I LOVE your idea!!!!! I think I’m going to do that at easter this year. I’ve done something similar with rice krispie treats as the nest but I have no idea why I didn’t think of chocolate and chow mein noodles!! I bet they are so cute!!! Thank you!!
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
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…
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!
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!!
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;)
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!
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!
Hi, I’m new to your site, but I feel like I’ve known you for years after reading your recipes and the funny stories that go with them. I LOVE the pictures. I don’t know why more cookbooks don’t do it!
My husband it not a “sweets” person, but he has to have a batch of “butterscotch” candy every Thanksgiving. His aunt made them by combining butterscotch chips, smooth peanut butter, the noodles and mini marshmallows. No one can pass the bowl without grabbing some!
Thanks again for your site–I think I’m addicted!!
Thank you so much for sharing this recipe! My granddaughter is turning 3 and her birthday party is tomorrow…she is having a Cow Party so this hatstack candy will go perfectly with the theme!!!
They are so delicious!!!!!
Hey Christie!! These treats I grew up on and NO ONE knew what they were when I asked to bring them one year after I got married…lol! My granny always had these ready for me when we visited on Thanksgiving and Christmas. I asked for the recipe and she puts Butterscotch, crunchy peanut butter, mini-marshmellows, and chow mein noodles. She called them “Haystacks” and to me thats exactly what they actually look like!lol
) Ashley
[...] get a guest blog spot out of him and this was the perfect recipe. Last year Brady brought you his Chow Mein Candy (sometimes known as “haystacks”) and this recipe is much like that one but with a little [...]
We do this but use 1 bag of semi sweet chocolate chips and 1 bag of butterscoth chips and call the scotch crunchies. They are so good! Anything with butterscoth and chocolate usually is good.
Love these! Good call Brady! Thanks for sharing with us
Oh, boy! Does this bring back Christmas memories! My Mom used to make these every Christmas when we were kids! These and the No-Bake Chocolate Oatmeal cookies, Candy Cane cookies and the Pecan Mexican Wedding Cakes and then a couple store bought cookies…probably because the Candy Cane Cookies were more ‘labor intensive’. Thanks for reminding me of this recipe, Christy and its wonderful memories!!
These are an easy favorite. We called them haystacks and sometimes added nuts for a salty/sweet combination.
My family makes these, but instead of the noodles, we use potato sticks ( you know, the ones that come in a can and look like teeny fries). Both butterscotch or chocolate are delicious with the potato sticks.
Can;t wait for the recipe tomarrow!
Oh I love these, so yummy! Need to make them! Thanks Christy and Brady!
Oh boy…Holly Jollies with butterscotch instead of chocolate! Yumm! (I made the same thing last night for a party only used the chocolate.)
I just did this but I used 2 cups of butterscotch and 2 cups of chocolate chips. Tried to melt it in the microwave and it got a bunch of oil/water on top and i threw it out. What did i do wrong. I was doing it at 30 secs. and then stir and do another 30
How cool that lil Brady was your first guest blogger. Tell him hi for us!
I’m sooo making these today to give as gifts!!
I always substitute Organic Coconut Oil for any recipe that calls for shortening. If you buy the Coconut Oil that has NOT been refined it will have the coconut flavor and it is awesome in recipes like coconut cake, but for using in recipes that I prefer not to have the coconut flavor, I use the one that is minimally refined and takes out the taste and smell of the coconut. Hence, you get the healthy benefits of the coconut oil and it not being “hydrogenated” with 0 trans fats.
Wow! What a great idea. I love butterscotch, and I’m the kind of person that really REALLY needs to keep it simple when it comes to candy making. Thanks for this Brady, I’ll definitely be giving this one a try
And so very cool that you were the 1st guest blogger 
We made these every year but instead of butterscotch my Mom always used the white chocolate bark, coating stuff that comes in a brick. They were so easy and good and no one ever realized just how easy they were to make. Love butterscotch, so I really should give this version a try, too!
Christy,thanks so much for posting.I use to make these when the kids were younger and its one of my daughters favs! I have always called them haystacks and put in peanuts..love the sweet/salty thing.I miss my kids being in the kitchen with me,especially at the holidays! Enjoy every nano second you have yours around! Merry Christmas to everyone on here,its a great group of foodies!
I was looking for this receipe in my books yesterday and couldn’t find it. Thanks
Wow, good idea, Brady. The yumminess of butterscotch with the crunchiness of chow mein noodles. Sounds fantastic!
Brady, thank you for the reminder for this candy! I have made them before and put them in cup cake liners. We call them “bird nests”.
Haystacks are good with peanuts too! Yum, Yum
Thank you, Brady! You did a good job. They look good…I’ll try them soon. Merry Christmas!
We call them haystaks as well but use a bag of butterscotch and a bag of peanut butter chips and use the potato sticks like the other lady said. Its got a flavor combination that cant be beat.