Butter Caramel Puff Corn – No Kernels, No Hulls!
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I posted my caramel corn recipe on Facebook yesterday (click here to get it if you’d like) and realized that I’d never posted my Butter Caramel Puff Corn recipe on here! Oh mercy, where has my head been? This stuff is absolutely divine, with a capital “D”. It has a delicious honey taste to it (regardless of which ingredient options you use) and none of the pesky hulls or kernels you encounter with traditional caramel corn. Also, since you buy the puff corn in a bag, there is no popping popcorn in preparation for making it. Just walk into your kitchen, put some stuff in a pot, pour the puff corn in a baking dish and proceed as directed!
Personally, I like this better than caramel corn because it is easier on your teeth.
Oh but Christy, have we really got to the age where we have to worry about whether or not something is hard on our teeth? I don’t know about you but I sure have!
Warning: make this early in the day because you may end up eating it all yourself and if you do, you’ll need plenty of time to hide the evidence that you made it and didn’t share.
Recipe Ingredients:
Corn Syrup or Honey
Light Brown Sugar (the world won’t end if you use dark though)
Butter
A wee bit of Baking Soda.
and Puff corn…
This isn’t popcorn. There are no hulls or anything and it is baked. It sure is good!
What Kind of Puff Corn Do I Get?
Sometimes puff corn can be hard to find, though. My Wal Mart carries the cheese flavored kind but not the butter flavored kind you need for this recipe. I got these are Krogers for $2 a bag. Each bag is 3.5 ounces, so you end up with 10.5 ounces, which is what you need for a single recipe of Caramel Puff Corn. However, Mama’s Foodland carries bags twice this size for the same price so maybe you’ll get lucky and find the bigger, cheaper bags. They’re all good. Check online at our grocer too.
By the way, if you’ve never looked for this before, it is usually near the cheetos and such.
See? Oven baked, no hulls, no kernels.
Easy on your teeth 🙂
Place brown sugar, butter, and honey or corn syrup in a medium sauce pot.
Stir constantly while bringing to a boil over medium high heat.
Once boiling, allow to boil for one minute.
Remove from heat and stir in baking soda.
This will get it kind of foamy.
Stir until it’s all dissolved in there, which will just take a minute.
Spray a large roasting pan or two 9×13 baking dishes with cooking spray.
Divide puff corn among the two dishes.
Pour topping evenly over all of the puff corn.
Stir really well until it is well coated.
Place in 250 degree oven and bake for 45 minutes, stirring really well every 15 minutes.
Allow to cool and store in an airtight container.
Ingredients
- 3 Bags Butter Flavored Puff Corn 3.5 ounces each
- 2 sticks butter 1 cup
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup light corn syrup or honey
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
Instructions
- Spray a large roasting pan or two 9x13 pans with cooking spray. Divide puff corn up between two dishes.
- In medium sauce pot, combine butter, brown sugar, and corn syrup (or honey). Stir constantly while bringing to a boil over medium high heat. Once boiling, allow to boil for one minute. Remove from heat and stir in baking soda. Mixture will foam. Stir until well blended.
- Pour over puff corn. Stir really well to coat. Bake at 250 for 45 minutes, stirring well every 15 minutes. Allow to cool and store in an airtight container.
- If you eat it all before everyone gets home, just make sure you clean up the kitchen really good so they never knew it existed. Make double next time so you can share 🙂
Nutrition
“When tempted to fight fire with fire,
remember that the fire department usually uses water.”
~Unknown
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This sounds like a wonderful recipe to make and send to my granddaughter in college so I’ll be trying it soon. It sounds yummy!
Sounds terrific! I have pretty much stopped eating popcorn because the hulls get down into my gums around my teeth. OUCH!!!
Yum-O! Sounds like it could be a good solution for kiddos with braces too.
I use ditch the box and use a mason jar for my baking soda :-).
Thank you for this recipe, Christy. For some reason regular popcorn causes my daughter terrible stomach pain. She loves popcorn & misses it so much. This will be a wonderful treat!
If your daughter is older she may have early signs of diverticulosis. I have had it for 3.5 yrs and can’t eat popcorn or peanuts. Have wound up in the ER a few times until figuring out this was what was causing me problems. I can eat this type of corn puff without any trouble.
Definitely going to try this. But on another note..the baking soda box thing. I Do a lot of baking, and buy my baking soda in bulk. I used to use a storage container and just dip from that, but have you ever noticed how great the containers are that baking POWDER comes in? I saved a few, cleaned them out and tore the label off. Using these for baking soda is so cool, and easy to measure because of the built in lip.
Cat, where did you find baking soda in bulk? I can’t find it in my town. A Web search turned up only the industrial kind, which cannot be used in the kitchen.
Bonny, I buy my baking soda at Sam’s. I comes in 13.5 pound bags. I use it for everything. Wal mart even has it in bigger boxes in the detergent section.
Thank you!
Oh my gosh that is genius!! Why didn’t I think of that?! I’m definitely going to try it. Thanks!
OH, this looks great. I was about to say that it looks like a wonderful snack for a party, but who am I kidding, a munchie this good may not make it to party time! 😉 Maybe I’ll take your advice and make a batch early-early, polish it off, and make another batch for our guests. 🙂