Easy Homemade Caramel Corn Recipe

Ingredients

• Mazola Pure® Cooking Spray
• 4 quarts popped popcorn
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 0.5 cup Karo® Light OR Dark Corn Syrup
• 0.5 cup butter OR margarine
• 0.5 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon Spice Islands® Pure Vanilla Extract
• 0.5 teaspoon baking soda

Instructions

1. Prepare all of your ingredients.
2. Preheat your oven to 250 degrees F (120 degrees C). Coat a large, shallow roasting pan with cooking spray, then add the popcorn. Keep it warm in the oven while you make the caramel.
3. In a heavy 2-quart saucepan, mix the brown sugar, corn syrup, butter, and salt over medium heat. Stir constantly until the mixture boils.
4. Once boiling, stop stirring and let the mixture boil for 5 minutes.
5. Take the pan off the heat, then stir in the baking soda and vanilla until everything is well mixed.
6. Pour the caramel syrup over the warm popcorn and stir until the popcorn is evenly coated.
7. Put the caramel corn back in the oven and bake for 45 minutes, stirring every so often.
8. Take the pan out of the oven and spread the caramel corn onto a large sheet of foil that has been sprayed with cooking spray.
9. Let it cool completely, then break it apart. Store in an airtight container.

Nutrition

• Calories: 395 kcal
• Fat Content: 21 g
• Fiber Content: 2 g
• Sugar Content: 32 g
• Sodium Content: 567 mg
• Protein Content: 17 g
• Cholesterol Content: 31 mg
• Carbohydrate Content: 52 g
• Saturated Fat Content: 9 g
• Unsaturated Fat Content: 0 g