Once you have had home-made caramel corn- you will never eat the "other stuff" again - unless you really miss that silly surprise inside. This is light, crunchy and addicting. You have been warned.
This is gluten free and can be made weeks in advance - but it won't last that long!
Home made Caramel Corn
- Servings: handfulls at a time
- Yield: About 8-9 cups
- Prep Time: 20 min
- Cooking Time: 1 hr
Ingredients
- 2 sticks of butter
- 2 cups firmly packed light brown sugar
- ½ cup light corn syrup
- pinch of salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1-2 teaspoons of flavor - I use vanilla butternut. You can use plain vanilla, coffee, caramel, butterscotch - be creative.
- 3 bags of regular size popped microwave popcorn
Preparation
- Pop the 3 bags of popcorn and place in a large bowl
- In saucepan, on medium heat, melt and mix butter, brown sugar, corn syrup and salt
- When it begins to boil, leave it alone for 5 minutes
- Remove from heat and add baking soda and flavor and mix well. It will become foamy and light (the kids love this part!))
- Carefully pour over popcorn - it is hot! Take the time to mix well, coating the popcorn with the caramel. I use two large serving forks.
- Put all popcorn in a large baking sheet and bake at 225 degrees for 1 hour, tossing and mixing every 15 minutes.
- When done, spread out on counter and let cool. Try a piece. Yep. Have another. It's that good.
- Place in ziplock bags or package in airtight bags/containers for gifts.
- It is delicious alone, but you can add nuts, dried fruit, hard candies, M &Ms etc for gift giving.
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