Caramel Popcorn

5.00 (6)
⏱ 75 mins 🍽 5 Quarts 🏷 Snack

This recipe guides you through making a large batch of homemade caramel popcorn. You will create a rich caramel sauce from butter, brown sugar, and corn syrup, which is then poured over freshly popped corn. The coated popcorn is baked slowly to achieve a wonderfully crisp texture. The final result yields five quarts of sweet, sticky, and utterly moreish popcorn, ideal for a lunchbox treat or a cosy snack.

Caramel Popcorn

Ingredients

  • 6 quarts popped popcorn
  • 1 cup margarine or 1 cup butter, melted
  • 2 cups packed brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup corn syrup
  • 1 teaspoon salt

Method

  1. Place all the listed ingredients, excluding the popcorn, into a saucepan and bring to a boil while stirring continuously.
  2. Allow the mixture to boil for five minutes, but do not stir it during this time.
  3. Take the saucepan off the heat source.
  4. Mix in one teaspoon of vanilla extract.
  5. Add half a teaspoon of baking soda.
  6. Stir the caramel mixture thoroughly until everything is well combined.
  7. Pour the hot caramel over the popped popcorn and mix until every piece is evenly coated.
  8. Transfer the coated popcorn into shallow baking pans and bake at 250 for 1 hour, remembering to stir the contents every 15 minutes.
  9. Allow the baked popcorn to cool down fully.
  10. Break the cooled popcorn into pieces and place it into an airtight container for storage.

Nutrition (per serving)

Sodium706500 mg

Recipe details

CategorySnack
Authorsnuqueen