Get in the spirit of the season
by treating the hungry ghosts and
goblins in your home to a homemade
Halloween caramel popcorn recipe.
To die for TV chef and entertaining Guru
Guru Kristi Ross shares the details.
Hi, I'm Christy Ross.
I'm basically a kid at heart but
never more so than at Halloween.
I love everything about it decorating
dressing up usually in something scary.
The little kids who come to the door and
most of all making fun to eat treats.
Today I'm making Halloween caramel popcorn.
Melted 3/4 cup of unsalted butter and I'm
going to stir in two cups of brown sugar.
Always be sure to pack your brown
sugar when you're measuring it.
Stir this, make sure to get all of the
brown sugar moistened with the butter.
Then I will add in half a cup of corn
syrup and a half teaspoon of salt.
Salt.
And the corn syrup, and it's easier
to get the corn syrup out of the
measuring cup if you've sprayed
the inside first of all.
With a little bit of nonstick spray,
I'm going to stir this.
Make sure it's all incorporated
and then I'm going to turn up
the heat just a little bit to
about medium or medium low.
Perhaps turn up the heat and I'm
going to bring this to a boil.
And let it cook for five
minutes without stirring.
The caramel has cooked for five minutes,
so I'm turning off the heat.
I'm going to remove it from the heat
and add vanilla and stir this in.
And it'll really bubble
up when you do that.
Stir really well to get all that
beautiful vanilla flavor in there.
And then immediately pour it
over the popcorn very slowly.
Oh, this smells divine.
Here we go.
Preston, Madeline.
K.
I have a spatula, wooden spatula and I have
sprayed it with nonstick spray
because otherwise this caramel will
stick to it and just give this up.
Really good stir. In the meantime,
I preheated my oven to 250 degrees.
Kids are gonna love this and I might
have a couple of pieces myself.
OK, this is ready.
Now I'm going to pop this in the oven.
It will be for one hour and every 15 minutes.
I'll give it a really good toss
with that spatula so that all of the
caramel that has dripped down to the
bottom of the pan will be incorporated
back into the pump.
The caramel corn has been in
the oven for an hour and I
stirred it every 15 minutes.
So now I'm going to give it its final
stir and then I'll set it aside.
Let it cool until it's
just warm to the touch.
At that point, I'll go ahead
and break it up with my hands
and let it cool the rest of
the way before I package it.
Well, that was fun.
You know when it comes to treats,
the simplest recipes can be
extra special when they're
packaged attractively like
this Halloween caramel corn.
It's so irresistible it's downright scary.
Happy Halloween.
Take care buying the joy.