How to Make Baked Caramel Corn

Instructions

• 1

  Pop the corn
  
  The first step in the preparation of caramel corn is to pop the corn. You can use a specially designed popper or an air popper depending on the availability. Whatever the case is, make sure that you remove the flop corn from the mix. Also set the oven to preheat at 250 degree centigrade.
• 2

  Prepare Caramel
  
  Take the sauce pan and add the mentioned quantities of brown sugar, butter, corn syrup and salt. Heat till the butter is melted. Once melted, let the mixture boil for 5 minutes.
• 3

  Add baking soda
  
  Remove the pan from the heat and add baking soda to it. The soda will give the mixture a foamy texture upon stirring.
• 4

  Add caramel to corn
  
  After the mixture has achieved a good consistency, add caramel to the corn and fold together, ensuring a nice mix.
• 5

  Bake
  
  Now add the mixture of pop corn and caramel into the oven which is already at 250 degree centigrade. Take out the mixture after 15 minutes and stir it.
  
  Now put it back into the oven and bake it for another 15 minutes, followed by stirring. This process has to be repeated two more times, meaning that there will be a total of 4 cycles.
  
  Add the peanuts after the third cycle.
• 6

  Cool
  
  Immediately remove the caramel corn from the oven and allow it to cool on a wax paper.