Caramel Popcorn With Chocolate Drizzle
- 1 cup Butter
- 2 cups Brown Sugar
- 1/2 cups Corn Syrup
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 1/2 teaspoons Baking Soda
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- 5 quarts Popped Popcorn
- 12 ounces, weight Ghirardelli Melting Wafers (or Chocolate Chips)
- 19 ounces, weight M&Ms
- Preheat oven to 250u0b0F.
- In a medium saucepan over medium heat, melt butter. Stir in brown sugar, corn syrup, and salt. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Boil without stirring for 4 minutes. Remove pan from heat and stir in baking soda and vanilla.
- Pour in a thin stream over popcorn, stopping a stirring to coat popcorn. Place on 2-3 cookie sheets lined with parchment paper. Bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour, stirring every 20 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool.
- Place approximately 4-5 feet of parchment paper on cabinet, spread caramel popcorn in one layer on it. Break up popcorn into chunks.
- Melt chocolate according to package instructions. Drizzle chocolate over popcorn with a spoon. Drop M&Ms into melted chocolate that was drizzled onto the popcorn. Let chocolate cool for 2-3 hours.
- Place yummy popcorn into bowls or goodie bags.
- Notes:
- 1. To make this a quicker project, I used pre-popped, bagged popcorn. There are a lot of brands that are at the grocery store (Skinny Pop, which is what I used, Fit popcorn, Boom Chicka Pop).
- 2. To make coating the popcorn easier with caramel, place popcorn in warm oven for 5 minutes prior to coating with caramel. I placed the popcorn on the cookie sheets I was going to use to bake in.
- 3. For the chocolate drizzle, you do not have to use melting wafers. They are just easier to work with. If you are competent enough of a cook to melt chocolate chips (unlike myself), feel free to do so.
- 4. To stir caramel onto popcorn, you will need a very large bowl. I prefer to use grocery store brown paper bags. At the checkout, they will be happy to give you a couple.
- Recipe adapted from AllRecipes.
butter, brown sugar, corn syrup, salt, baking soda, vanilla, wafers
Taken from tastykitchen.com/recipes/desserts/caramel-popcorn-with-chocolate-drizzle/ (may not work)