Time
0 min
Serving
8 persons
Calories
395
This caramel corn recipe is easy to make and tastes better than what you'd get at the country fair.
Ingredients
- Mazola Pure Cooking Spray:
- quarts popped popcorn: 4 piece
- brown sugar: 1 cup
- Karo Light or Dark Corn Syrup: 0.5 cup
- butter: 0.5 cup
- salt: 0.5 tsp
- Spice Islands Pure Vanilla Extract: 1 tsp
- baking soda: 0.5 tsp
Metric Conversion
Stages of cooking
-
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.
