Oven Baked Caramel Popcorn Recipes

Steps:

• Heat oven to 200°F. Divide popcorn and pecans between 2 ungreased rectangular pans, 13x9x2 inches.
• Heat brown sugar, butter, corn syrup and salt in 3-quart saucepan over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until bubbly around edges. Cook 5 minutes, stirring occasionally; remove from heat. Stir in baking soda.
• Pour mixture over popcorn and walnuts; stir until well coated. Bake 1 hour, stirring every 15 minutes.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 250 degrees F (95 degrees C). Place popcorn 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 in a thin stream over popcorn, stirring to coat.
• Place in two large shallow baking dishes and bake in preheated oven, stirring every 15 minutes, for 1 hour. Remove from oven and let cool completely before breaking into pieces.

Steps:

• Spray large shallow roasting pan with cooking spray. Add popcorn and place in preheated 250 degrees F oven while preparing caramel.
• Mix brown sugar, corn syrup, butter and salt in a heavy 2-quart saucepan. Stirring constantly, bring to a boil over medium heat.
• Boil 5 minutes without stirring. Remove from heat. Stir in baking soda and vanilla; mix well.
• Pour syrup over warm popcorn, stirring to coat evenly.
• Bake for 45 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove from oven and spread on foil that has been sprayed with cooking spray.
• Cool; break apart. Store in tightly covered container.

Steps:

• In a small pot add sugar, syrup, margarine or butter, cream of tarter and salt. Mix and boil until the bubbly stage (about 5 minutes).
• Test a drop in water until (like soft caramel) forms a ball.
• Remove from heat and add baking soda. It will SUDDENLY fluff up. QUICKLY add this to the tall large pot (gumbo or soup size) of prepared popcorn.
• SPEEDILY mix well to coat the popcorn with the syrup mixture. It will be very sticky.
• Pour and spread into a margarine greased 9x12 pan or larger pan. Bake 1 hour at 200 degrees.
• Remove and place cooked caramel popcorn onto a wax paper to cool.
• Once cooled, then crumble (like Cracker Jacks) and place into air tight containers to keep crunchy.
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