How To Make Caramel Corn
You don’t have to wait for Christmas to enjoy good caramel corn. Salty sweet caramel complete this sticky and crunchy snack.
Preparation: 15 minutes
Cooking: 1 hour 5 minutes
Total: 1 hour 20 minutes
Serves:
Ingredients
- 6qtspopped popcorn,approximately ¾ cup kernels
- 1cupbutter
- ½cuplight corn syrup
- 2cupsbrown sugar
- 1tspsalt
- ½tspbaking soda
- 1tspvanilla
- 1½cupspecans,or peanuts, optional
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 250 degrees F.
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Melt butter, brown sugar, corn syrup and salt in a saucepan over medium heat. Bring to a boil and let simmer for 5 minutes without stirring.
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Remove from heat and stir in vanilla and baking soda.
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Pour over popped corn (and optional mix-ins) and mix well to combine.
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Spread mixture over two 9×13-inch pans and bake for 1 hour, stirring every 15 minutes.
Nutrition
- Calories: 651.29kcal
- Fat: 43.16g
- Saturated Fat: 16.93g
- Trans Fat: 0.93g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 15.53g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 8.12g
- Carbohydrates: 68.52g
- Fiber: 4.18g
- Sugar: 52.48g
- Protein: 4.15g
- Cholesterol: 61.01mg
- Sodium: 300.71mg
- Calcium: 55.24mg
- Potassium: 186.16mg
- Iron: 1.40mg
- Vitamin A: 196.56µg
- Vitamin C: 0.28mg
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