Caramel Popcorn Recipe

Easy Caramel Corn Recipe Everyone Will Love

Oct 12, 2009 Carol Hilker

Caramel pop corn makes a delicious snack for everyone. This easy caramel corn recipe makes a great snack, and is very easy to make at home.

This recipe, inspired by Paula Deen and an old family favorite circa 1922 is the perfect snack everyone will be sure to love. Caramel Corn is a great nosh for football games, late-season baseball games, Halloween parties, Christmas decorating or gift giving, or even just as a snack during a family movie night. Caramel corn became a household name during the Chicago Columbian Exposition World Fair of 1893 under a symbol known as CrackerJack. The 1893 Fair hosted some of the most popular household names we still use in every day life like the Ferris Wheel, Shredded Wheat and Pabst Blue Ribbon (where do you think it got the blue ribbon?). But nothing has ever been so tasty as caramel popcorn.

This traditional and easy Caramel Popcorn Recipe is sure to be a hit for everyone, big or small. So pack it into a tin for a trip to the football field or add it to your Holiday or Christmas Recipe for presents, or pop a bag of it to bring along on the hayride, or just make it for the fun of it.

Caramel Popcorn Recipe

Ingredients

• 2 c. popcorn kernels
• 4 T vegetable or olive oil
• 1.5 cups packed brown sugar
• 1.5 sticks butter or 12 T
• 6 T light corn syrup
• 1/2 tsp. sea salt
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• toasted peanuts or almonds (optional)

Directions

1. Preheat your oven to 300 degrees F.
2. Air pop popcorn or pop microwave white, non-buttered, non salted until completion. To pop on the stove: Heat vegetable or olive oil in a large pot over high heat. Add the popcorn and rotate the pan in a circle, constantly moving around to heat popcorn. When popping slows, remove and let remaining kernels pop.Spread out over a Silpat or well greased baking sheet.
3. Mix sugar, butter, corn syrup, and salt into a large saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring until mixture starts to boil. Continue cooking for 5 minutes without stirring. Remove mixture from heat.
4. Stir in baking soda and vanilla extract
5. Pour over the popcorn.
6. Bake your caramel corn for about 25 to 30 minutes, checking the corn and giving it a stir about every 10 minutes, so that popcorn gets even coating, and the caramel gets even distribution.
7. Remove from oven, let cool.
8. If you are adding nuts, shake them in now.
9. Bag it, or eat it right away, it also makes a great Halloween or Christmas present for someone.

Makes about 6-8 cups.

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