#34 - Try 20 New Desserts 1 of 20

Hailey and I made the best caramel popcorn in our Christmas candy extravaganza.  I am pretty sure its what crack is made of.  We went through two batches in about a day.  I thought I would post the recipe because it's amazing.

1 cup butter
2 cups brown sugar
1/2 cup corn syrup
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla
2 cups unpopped popcorn

Use a popcorn popper to pop the popcorn kernels

Preheat oven to 250 degrees

In a medium sauce pan melt the butter.  Once melted stir in the brown sugar, corn syrup and salt.  Bring to a boil stirring constantly.  Once it's boiling let it boil without stirring for 4 minutes.  Remove from the heat, stir in the baking soda and vanilla.  Place popcorn in a single layer on a cookie sheet ( I had to use two cookie sheets).  Pour the caramel over the popcorn in a thin stream.  Place cookie sheets in the oven.  Bake for one hour, stirring the popcorn every fifteen minutes.

Popping the corn

Drizzling the caramel

In the oven

Fifteen minute stirring session

Holy crap it's good!!