hey everyone its James from fun food and today I'm going to show you how to make this mountain
Dew flavored candy popcorn now this was a suggested video from Krishna so thank
you so much for that suggestion I really appreciate that now if you'd like to see
me make this keep watching I'll show you step by step how to make this now the
first thing we want to do is start off by making a flavored syrup to do that
what I'm going to do is start off with a medium pan I'm going to add to that two
cups of sugar then a half a cup of light corn syrup next what I'm gonna to add is one cup
of Mountain Dew soda now just bring this over to the stove and stir it as it
comes to a boil okay you just want to stir this until all that sugar has
dissolved and that's right about this point you can just stop stirring and
when it reaches 230 degrees Fahrenheit just turn off your heat this should be
your nice syrup pull our candy thermometer out now take this over to our
workstation alright so now that we have made our syrup I'm just going to put it
in this container right here because I'm going to use this pot for something else
so I'll pour this in here
next what I've done was pop some popcorn you can just follow whatever directions
you have on your popcorn of how to pop it I just did this regular plain there's
no butter on there nothing so I'm just going to take this its freshly popped and
put it on a baking sheet and spread it out
now I've only decided to use about half the popcorn this is about four cups already
poppedI'm just going to take this put this in the oven at 200 degrees this is
just going to keep them nice and warm until we're ready to use them now what we're
going to do is make our candy coating this is going to cover the top of all of
our popcorn and to do that we're going to start with a medium pot we're going
to add two cups of sugar we're going to add two tablespoons of butter 1/2 a cup
of light corn syrup then we're going to add a half a cup of Mountain Dew soda
now just take this over to the stove and we're going to stir it up until it
starts to boil just going to turn our stove on medium high heat and once it
comes to a rapid boil stop stirring and let it boil for another three to five
minutes now after five minutes you just want to turn off your heat and next what
we're going to do is pour in our syrup that we made earlier this is our
Mountain Dew flavor so we're going to pour that in only use a quarter of a cup
of this mountain Dew flavor syrup mix it in really good and just for fun I'm
going to color this green you can skip the coloring if you'd like or you can
color another color when that's all done we'll move on to the next step now we're
going to do is take our popcorn out of the oven it's just been in the oven
warming up our staying warm I should say and I want to put about half of this
into a large bowl I found it easier to do half at a time because if you try to
do the whole recipe all at once it's hard to mix in the flavor so we'll do
about half
now of course you can salt this if you'd like or you can go unsalted
whichever way you like doesn't matter what we're going to do right here is
take our mixture and like I said I'm only going to do about half of this now
because only half of our popcorn is in this bowl so I'm gonna pour this out over top
of it and I'm just going to mix it up really good so just lay it out on your
baking sheet spread it out nice and thin
and when all your popcorn is in one nice even layer you can take this put this in
the oven at 250 degrees for about eight minutes all right so when it comes out
of the oven you just want to let it sit and let it rest and cool down for maybe
about a half-hour or so so after they cooled down for about a
half-hour or so you can just start breaking them apart there will be in
little clusters like that and or you can just eat them in like clusters and you
can fill a container that you're going to serve it in and serve now its time for the taste test
I'm going to dig into this and try it out and let you know what it taste like
it's good it is a bit chewy so be careful if you have braces um it might
stick in your teeth so I wouldn't recommend it if you have braces yeah
be careful and even if you don't have braces it is a bit chewy so understand that it has
good flavour thanks everyone for watching I hope you enjoyed watching me
make this mountain Dew flavored candy popcorn it was a lot of fun making this
thanks again Krishna for suggesting I make this and if you enjoyed this video
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