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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Can’t wait to try this. My husband has diverticulitis and has not been able to eat popcorn for 7 years. I think he will love this.
I save Coffee Mate refrigerated non dairy creamer containers to use for baking soda and sugar. Has a flip top lid and spout to pour from. Also saw a craft using them to make snowmen out of…too cute.
My mom gave me this recipe a few years back. IT IS THE BEST! And very addicting! Everyone who tries it asks for the recipes. And if you add some peanut butter (maybe 1/4 – 1/2 cup) to the melting mixture……OMG! Tastes just like Captain Crunch’s peanut butter cereal! Thanks for posting the recipe Christy!
My 13 year old just got her braces and you should have seen her face light up when she saw this recipe and realized she could eat it!!!! Thanks Christy
FYI….I have seen the Arm and Hammer in a plastic container! Not sure if it was in Wal-Mart or Food Lion.
Love the idea that you could use an extra baking powder container for baking soda!! Also that Trader Joe’s sells baking soda in a nice container. Look how long it took for Argo Cornstarch to ditch the ugly box and sell their product in a nice plastic container!
THANKS CHRISTY for another goodie!!! I love Puffcorn because of no husks and have hooked several elderly neighbors on it as it is easy for them to eat. I will definitely be sending my daughter out to make her rounds to the shut ins with a brown paper lunch bag of cheer decorated with a couple of silk fall leaves and tied shut with raffia. What a better way to celebrate fall than caramel corn. Thank you Christy your recipes are so inspiring along with your journals and stories between the two it makes a person want to cook and give it all out!