Chocolate Drizzled Caramel Popcorn

I love making Caramel Popcorn. This recipe is really good. It's a nice crispy caramel on the popcorn.

First off you need these items.

A popcorn popper. You can use microwave but use the natural unsalted type.

Popcorn.

Candy Thermometer 

Pot

Pan (9x13)

Tin Foil

Brown Sugar

Corn Syrup

Butter

Baking Soda 

Vanilla

First off you need to line your 9x13 pan with foil. It makes clean up a lot easier.

Pop your popcorn (1/3 cup to 1/2 cup unpopped). You will need about 8 cups. Carefully put popcorn in 9x13 pan so you don't get the kernels that didn't pop. Place in a preheated oven (300 degrees) to keep warm  till you get your caramel ready.

To make your caramel put 

3/4 cup packed brown sugar

3 Tablespoons Corn Syrup

1/3 cup butter

Stir your mixture, over a medium, heat till it starts to bubble. Put in the candy thermometer and stop stirring it. Wait till it gets to 255 degrees. Take it off the heat and stir in  1/4 teaspoon vanilla and a 1/4 teaspoon baking soda.

As soon as you stir it in pour the caramel mixture over the popcorn. Stir till coated. Bake in a 300 degree oven for 13 minutes. Take out and stir. Bake for another 5 minutes.

 Lay out a couple of sheets of foil on your counter. When the popcorn comes out of the oven give it another stir and then pour on the foil to cool. Break it into pieces. Take Chocolate and White bark and melt it in the microwave.  You can use a spoon to drizzle it all over or place it in a small sandwich type bag and seal it up, cut off the corner and drizzle it on that way. Let the chocolate set up and then enjoy.

Happy Baking!