Been on a deep fried tangent since the deep fried Twinkies. I'm pretty sure this will be my last deep fried recipe for the year. I looked into it, and yeah, you really can deep fry anything! With boom! Deep fried candy corn just in time for Halloween.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED:
-Instant Pancake mix
-1 bag of candy corn (I used "Brach's")
-Corn Flakes
-1 48 FL. OZ. of pure vegetable oil (I've heard using peanut oil is even better)
-1 egg
-1 boiling pan
-1 sharp chopping knife
-1 cutting board
-1 ice cream scooper
-powdered sugar

STEP 1:
Pour the entire bottle of oil into the boiling pan. Heat oil on high. (I didn't have a thermometer, so I just determined when the oil was hot by flicking drops of water at the oil. It will pop a little when ready.)

STEP 2:
While the oil is heating up make your pancake batter. Use 2 cups of mix and 1 cup of water. Make sure that the batter is thick like pudding but not too thick like dough. Add more mix and/or water accordingly. Set aside for now.

STEP 3:
Take 1 cup of candy corn (maybe a little over the cup) and chop up the candy corn with a knife. The easiest way is to press hard on the knife as it cuts through the corn. When fully chopped, it will resemble a large pile of eraser shavings. Scoop the chopped corn into your pancake batter. Next, add a cup of corn flakes and 1 egg to the batter and mix all together. The corn flakes will give it a nice crunch, and the egg will act as glue to hold it together.

STEP 4:
Once the oil is heated, take the ice cream scoop and drop a scoop of the batter mixture into the oil. Turn the fried ball evenly to give it a nice coating until golden brown, this will take about 30 seconds to a minute. strain with a straining spoon onto a plate. Repeat the process until your out of batter. Note: The batter and candy corn will leak out of the main fried ball, don't worry about it, just strain the excess floaters every so often so they don't burn.

STEP 5:
Dash with preferred amount of powdered sugar and consume.