I love caramel corn so much!!!!! An old friend of my mum’s, Linda, used to always give us a box for Christmas. I would always wind up eating all of it, so she just starting giving me my own box for christmas.
After a while, I decided I wanted to learn how to make it and started to package it up as christmas gifts for my friends. It is a really easy recipe to make and is such a nice treat that it is a wonderful option for Christmas gifts. I thought this would be a good post because we only have five days left until Christmas, and this is a really good last minute gift.
Hope you enjoy this lovely caramel treat! I made a double batch because I was making it for a couple of people, which is easy to do if you need to make more. At the end just place the caramel corn in a nice gift bag (I got mine from Flying Tiger) and you have a lovely gift! Also if you make a double batch, you can keep some back for yourself.
Caramel Corn
This recipe makes about 15 cups of caramel corn at 173 calories per cup.
Ingredients:
- 15 cups popped popcorn
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup corn syrup (golden syrup will work too)
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1 tsp. vanilla
Preparation:
- Pop the corn (either in an air popper or a large pot with oil on the stove top) and place in baking/casserole disses that can go in the oven (use enough so that each one only needs to be about half full).
- Preheat oven to 100 C.
- In a LARGE pot over medium heat, combine the sugar, corn syrup, butter and salt and continually mix while the the ingredients combine until the liquid starts to bubble.
- Use a large pot at the caramel will have to bubble up, so if the pot is too small it will boil over.
- Use a large pot at the caramel will have to bubble up, so if the pot is too small it will boil over.
- When the caramel starts to boil, let it bubble up for five minutes without touching it.
- If it starts to smell like its burning, stop early.
- If it starts to smell like its burning, stop early.
- Take the caramel off the heat and vigorously stir in the baking soda and vanilla (carful the vanilla might sizzle when added) until the liquid settles down a bit.
- Pour the caramel over the popcorn and mix through quickly, it cools fast and is much harder to mix as it cools.
- Place the caramel corn in the oven for about 30 minutes, opening the oven and mixing every 10. This allows the caramel to spread over all the corn.
- Again, if you smell the caramel burning, then take it out early.
- Place the corn on tin foil or baking paper on the counter top to cool.
- Put the corn in some nice bags and they are all ready as a gift!
Hope you enjoy this recipe! You can also add nuts to the corn before you mix in the caramel if you want!
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Caramel Corn
Ingredients:
- 15 cups popped popcorn
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup corn syrup (golden syrup will work too)
- 1/2 cup butter
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1 tsp. vanilla
Preparation:
- Pop the corn (either in an air popper or a large pot with oil on the stove top) and place in baking/casserole disses that can go in the oven (use enough so that each one only needs to be about half full).
- Preheat oven to 100 C.
- In a LARGE pot over medium heat, combine the sugar, corn syrup, butter and salt and continually mix while the the ingredients combine until the liquid starts to bubble.
- Use a large pot at the caramel will have to bubble up, so if the pot is too small it will boil over.
- When the caramel starts to boil, let it bubble up for five minutes without touching it.
- If it starts to smell like its burning, stop early.
- Take the caramel off the heat and vigorously stir in the baking soda and vanilla (carful the vanilla might sizzle when added) until the liquid settles down a bit.
- Pour the caramel over the popcorn and mix through quickly, it cools fast and is much harder to mix as it cools.
- Place the caramel corn in the oven for about 30 minutes, opening the oven and mixing every 10. This allows the caramel to spread over all the corn.
- Again, if you smell the caramel burning, then take it out early.
- Place the corn on tin foil or baking paper on the counter top to cool.
- Put the corn in some nice bags and they are all ready as a gift!
