
How To Make Caramel Popcorn
Make movie nights special with a bowl of caramel popcorn. It’s crunchy and sweet with a little bit of saltiness, making it a highly addicting snack!
Serves:
Ingredients
- 16cupspopcorn,salted, popped
- 1cupbutter
- 2cupsbrown sugar
- ½cuplight corn syrup
- ¼tspsalt
- ½tspbaking soda
- 1¼tspvanilla extract
- cooking spray
Instructions
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Preheat the oven to 250 degrees F. Coat two sheet pans with cooking spray.
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Place the popcorn in a large bowl. Set aside.
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Cut the butter into 8 slices, then place in a saucepan. Place the pan over medium heat.
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Melt the butter, then add the brown sugar, corn syrup, and salt to the pan. Increase the heat to medium high, then bring the mixture to a boil, stirring continuously.
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Once the mixture comes to a boil, stop stirring, then let it cook undisturbed for exactly 4 minutes.
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Remove the caramel from the heat. Add the baking soda and vanilla extract, then stir.
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Pour the caramel over the popcorn, then quickly toss the popcorn in the caramel mixture to coat.
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Divide the caramel corn between the two sheet pans, then place the pans in the oven.
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Cook for 1 hour. Every 15 minutes, stir the popcorn and rotate the pans from the top to bottom oven racks.
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Remove the popcorn from the oven. Cool, then break into pieces.
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Serve, and enjoy!
Nutrition
- Calories:Â 197.80kcal
- Fat:Â 11.46g
- Saturated Fat:Â 6.18g
- Trans Fat:Â 0.37g
- Monounsaturated Fat:Â 3.20g
- Polyunsaturated Fat:Â 1.33g
- Carbohydrates:Â 24.64g
- Fiber:Â 0.64g
- Sugar:Â 20.69g
- Protein:Â 0.69g
- Cholesterol:Â 24.40mg
- Sodium:Â 71.67mg
- Calcium:Â 16.55mg
- Potassium:Â 36.89mg
- Iron:Â 0.28mg
- Vitamin A: 78.15µg
- Vitamin C:Â 0.02mg
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