This sweet Caramel Popcorn contains only five ingredients and is a great snack to share with friends and family. Wonderful for a tasty dessert, this delicious caramel corn can stay fresh about five days when stored in an airtight container.
Caramel Popcorn
Who doesn’t love caramel sauce and popcorn? When you cover popcorn with a delicious, creamy sauce, you will satisfy the biggest of cravings.
Some people add extra ingredients, such as chopped nuts, chocolate pieces or even peanut butter candies to their caramel corn, though I prefer it more plain.
For a delicious salted caramel popcorn, add a pinch of pink Himalayan salt to the caramel sauce.
Making Caramel Popcorn
To make this delicious flavoured popcorn, you only need 8-9 cups of plain popcorn – already popped. I do this in my Instant Pot. You will also need some butter, brown sugar, vanilla extract and bicarbonate of soda. Salt is an optional extra, especially if you want to make salted caramel popcorn!
Once you boil the butter and brown sugar together for five minutes, then you add the vanilla extract and bi-carb soda.
To coat the popcorn, place it in a bowl and pour this syrup over the top. Gently mix the sauce through and then pour the popcorn out on a lined tray to cool, if you can wait that long!
To make this delicious popcorn extra crispy, try baking it in the oven.
After pouring the caramel popcorn on a lined tray to cool, place it in an oven instead. Heat the oven to 110ËšC (230ËšF) and bake, tossing the popcorn every five minutes for around 30 minutes. If you have added any extra ingredients such as the honey, or golden syrup, you may need to bake the popcorn for a little longer, around 30 to 45 minutes to make it nice and crispy.
More Recipes
- Make Popcorn in an Instant Pot
- Caramel Fudge
- Puff Pastry Apple Turnovers
- Baked Donut Bites
- Raspberry Cream Biscuits
- Chocolate Chip Cookie Slice
- Chocolate Weet-Bix Slice
- Chocolate Mousse
- Churros with Hot Chilli Chocolate
- Chocolate Brownies
Caramel Popcorn
Simple Living. Creative LearningIngredients
- 8-9 cups popped popcorn, plain
- 1 cup butter
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Place the popped popcorn into a large bowl, removing all the unpopped kernals and set aside.
- Line a baking tray with baking paper and set aside.
- Place the butter in a medium saucepan and melt over medium heat.
- Add the sugar and mix together well.
- Bring to the boil while stirring.
- Boil, without stirring, for 5 minutes.
- Add the vanilla and the bi-carb soda and mix well.
- Drizzle over the popcorn in the bowl and gently mix through to coat the popcorn.
- Carefully, tip the coated popcorn onto the baking tray and let cool.
Nutritional information is an estimate and provided as a courtesy. The values may vary according to the ingredients and tools that are used. Please use your preferred nutritional calculator for more detailed information.
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