Caramel Corn

Caramel Corn
adapted from Allrecipes

Ingredients:
1/2 c. butter
2 c. brown sugar
1/2 c. corn syrup
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla extract
3 bags microwaved popcorn
1 1/2 c. honey roasted peanuts, or addin of choice

Directions:
-Preheat oven to 300 degrees
-Pop popcorn and place popcorn and peanuts in a very large bowl.
-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 4 minutes.
-Remove from heat and stir in soda and vanilla.
-Pour over popcorn and stir to coat.
-Place popcorn in two large shallow baking dishes and bake in preheated oven, stirring every 15 minutes, for 45 minutes.
-Remove from oven, stir one more time and let cool completely before breaking into pieces.

Chocolate Caramel Corn

Triple Chocolate Caramel Popcorn
Based on Microwave Caramel Popcorn
Found on allrecpies.com

2 qts popped popcorn
½ c brown sugar
¼ c butter
5 Tbs light corn syrup
½ tsp salt
½ tsp vanilla extract
¼ tsp baking soda

2 oz white chocolate
2 oz semi-sweet chocolate
Milk chocolate chips

Place popcorn into a large microwave-safe bowl.

In a separate bowl, combine brown sugar, butter, corn syrup, salt, and vanilla. Heat for 1 ½ minutes in the microwave. Stir until well blended. Return to microwave, and cook for another 1 ½ minutes. Remove from microwave, and stir in the baking soda.

Pour syrup over the popcorn. Quickly toss to coat all of the popcorn. Place the popcorn in the microwave, and cook for 30 seconds at a time, tossing in between. Popcorn should be heated through and well coated in about 2 minutes (four rounds of heating).

Spread popcorn on a sheet of wax paper. Heat the white chocolate and semi-sweet chocolate in separate bowls, and drizzle each over the popcorn. Sprinkle chips over the popcorn. Let chocolate set (if you can resist).