Description
Sweet and crunchy, this caramel corn is easy to make and tastes better than the county fair’s.
Ingredients
- Mazola Pure® Cooking Spray
- 4 quarts popped popcorn
- 1 cup brown sugar
- ½ cup Karo® Light OR Dark Corn Syrup
- ½ cup butter OR margarine
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon Spice Islands® Pure Vanilla Extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 250 degrees F (120 degrees C). Spray a large shallow roasting pan with cooking spray
- then fill with popcorn.
- Place in the preheated oven while preparing caramel.
- Mix brown sugar
- corn syrup
- butter
- and salt together in a heavy 2-quart saucepan over medium heat; stir constantly until mixture comes to a boil.
- Stop stirring
- and boil mixture for 5 minutes.
- Remove from the heat and stir in baking soda and vanilla until well combined.
- Pour syrup over warmed popcorn and stir until evenly coated.
- Return to the oven and bake for 45 minutes
- stirring occasionally.
- Remove from the oven and spread onto a large foil sheet greased with cooking spray.
- Cool
- then break apart and store in a tightly covered container.
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 45 mins
Total Time: 1 hr
Servings: 8