Halloween Caramel Popcorn

By Nitaj3

Ingredients

• Popcorn:
• Recipe: Halloween Caramel Corn
• Summary: makes 16 cups
• Ingredients
• 1 cup organic popping corn
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil
• Caramel:
• 1 cup butter
• 2 cups light brown sugar
• 1/2 cup light corn syrup
• 1 tsp kosher salt
• 1/2 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 2 cups reese’s pieces
• 1 cups pretzels
• 1 cup candy corn
• 8 Oreo cookies, crushed (I used Halloween Oreo Cookies)

Details

Preparation time 10mins
Cooking time 60mins

Preparation

Step 1

Instructions
1. Preheat the oven to 250 degrees.
2. Put a large pot over a medium heat, and add the oil and popcorn. Put a lid on the pot, with a small gap so that steam can escape. Pop the corn until there are a few seconds between pops, and it sounds like they are mostly cooked.
3. Dump the popped corn into a large sheet pan and sprinkle with kosher salt.
4. In the same pot that you made the popcorn, melt the butter, sugar, corn syrup and salt together. Let them boil, and continue to stir them for about 10 minutes, until the caramel is bubbling and amber colored.
5. In a tiny bowl, mix the baking soda and vanilla together so that the soda is mostly dissolved.
6. Pull the pot off of the heat, and quickly stir in the vanilla and baking soda. The caramel should get very light and frothy. Then immediately pour the popcorn into the caramel, and gently fold the caramel into the corn to try to coat it.
7. Transfer the popcorn to sheet pans (I divided it between 2) Put the sheet pans in the preheated oven (250 degrees), and bake the popcorn for about 15 minutes. Gently stir the popcorn into the melting caramel until the popcorn is better coated. Repeat this again at the 15 minute mark, after which the popcorn should be quite evenly coated. Bake for another 15 minutes, and then remove from the oven. Give the corn one final stir to coat the popcorn and then add the candy, cookie crumbles and pretzels while the popcorn is still hot
8. When the popcorn is totally cool, it will have a nice, thin, crispy coating. Store in airtight containers.

Preparation time: 10 minute(s)

Cooking time: 1 hour(s)