Nan's Caramel Corn
Nan's Caramel Corn

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, nan's caramel corn. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Nan's Caramel Corn is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Nan's Caramel Corn is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have nan's caramel corn using 7 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Nan's Caramel Corn:
  1. Take 24 cup popped popcorn (do NOT use microwave popcorn!!)
  2. Make ready 2 stick butter
  3. Get 1 1/2 cup packed dark brown sugar
  4. Take 6 tbsp white Karo corn syrup
  5. Prepare 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
  6. Prepare 1/2 tsp baking soda
  7. Make ready 1 kosher salt
Steps to make Nan's Caramel Corn:
  1. Preheat oven to 275°F.
  2. Spread popcorn in TWO large roasting pans (I use the disposable aluminum turkey roasting pans).
  3. In a medium saucepan, combine the butter, brown sugar, and Karo syrup. Cook over medium heat, stirring only until the butter’s fully incorporated (then you don’t need to stir anymore). Cook until mixture reaches 255°F (essential to use a cooking/candy thermometer).
  4. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla. Then dump in the baking soda and quickly stir until the mixture foams up and it all becomes a lighter brown color, pretty much the same color as peanut butter (about 30 seconds of stirring).
  5. Quickly pour caramel evenly over all the popcorn. Toss and mix until all the popcorn is fairly evenly coated. (Won’t be super-well coated at this point.)
  6. Place in oven for 10 minutes, then toss/stir again to better coat the popcorn. Bake another 10 minutes.
  7. Remove from oven, stir again, and quickly sprinkle with kosher salt. Toss for about a minute, allowing the caramel corn to cool off, scraping the bottom of the pan to keep it from sticking.
  8. Cool completely and store in airtight containers.
  9. My assembly line!
  10. POPCORN BRANDS: I grew up in Indiana, where all the best popcorn is grown, and I tried dozens of brands over the decades. My favorite is the brand sold by the Boy Scouts. Large, consistent pop, great flavor, and perfectly shaped for candy coating. When I run out of Boy Scouts popcorn and can't get more quickly, I buy Yoder brand at the grocery because it's nearly identical. Those are my preferences, but feel free to use whatever popcorn you prefer, as long as it's not microwave!

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