A drizzle of chocolate makes everything taste better!
No one can refuse a delicious mixture of chocolate and caramel, especially when it is on a favorite snack food like popcorn. Cooking up a batch of chocolate caramel popcorn might make your hands a little messy, but that's a small price to pay for such a savory after-dinner snack.
Making Caramel
Anyone who has made caramel will tell you that it can be a sticky affair, which makes sense, considering it is mostly hot sugar. In a large saucepan, you need to mix 1 cup sugar, ½ cup corn syrup, and ¼ cup water. This mixture will need to be cooked on medium-high heat. Please note that caramel is prone to excessive bubbling, so a large pot will help alleviate that concern, as well as giving you enough space to add 4 cups of popped popcorn. Do not add the popcorn until the mix achieves a nice, golden-brown color. Pour the warm caramel-covered popcorn onto a sheet of wax paper so that it does not form a massive popcorn clump in the saucepan.
Choosing the Chocolate
The wonderful thing about chocolate is that it comes in different varieties. You can choose white chocolate, dark chocolate, milk chocolate--whatever pleases your palate. Simply warm up one pound of the chosen chocolate and drizzle it over the cooled caramel popcorn with a large spoon. Continue to leave the popcorn on the wax paper to cool.
What Now?
Now you can eat the popcorn, or you can put it into containers to send to friends and neighbors. If you put the cooled popcorn into goodie bags for party favors, people will always want to attend the parties you throw. Whatever you choose to do with it, just make sure the kids don't eat it on your new, white furniture!
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