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You will want to try this yummy festive Fall flavored popcorn with the taste of caramel apples.

Caramel Popcorn

*1 cup Granulated Sugar
*1/4 cup Water
*1/3 cup Heavy Whipping Cream or Heavy Cream
*1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
*5 tablespoons Butter

In a Stainless Steel Sauce Pot or Caramel Pot, add sugar and water, on medium-low heat and bring to barely bubbling or until all the sugar is dissolved. (This step takes time to let the sugar dissolve completely, stirring very gently before turning up the heat. This is the step if not followed will make the caramel grainy.)

Turn the heat to high and bring to boiling point without stirring. Let mixture continue to boil until it turns a rich amber color, remove saucepan from heat. (I removed on a light rich amber color for making popcorn.)

After removing the amber sugar syrup mixture from heat, waiting about 30 or so seconds before adding the cream slowly while stirring, being careful the mixture is very hot and will bubble-up, then add butter and vanilla.

In a greased large bowl add 6 of the 12 cups of Popped Popcorn, then a drizzle with half of the caramel, then add 6 more cups and drizzle the rest of the caramel and mix together.

For a dry caramel place the caramel Popcorn on a Silpat covered half-baking sheet and place in a 225* F. oven and bake for 10 minutes and stir/turn over and bake another 10 minutes. Remove from oven and break-apart/stir caramel popcorn and allow cooling and then store in an airtight container or Enjoy eating it right-away!

Recipe slightly adapted from Passion for Baking

See our Jars of Colorful Jell-O Popcorn for how to make the Green Apple Jolly Rancher Popcorn, replacing Jell-O with the box 2.79 ounces Green Apple Jolly Rancher Gelatin and follow the same directions.

Enjoy!

Jessica and Lindy

White Chocolate covered Caramel Apples

*15 Apples, Granny Smith or Red Delicious
*1 1/2 bags (12 ounce bags) fresh Guittard White Chocolate Chips
*2 1/2 packages fresh Kraft Caramels (13.5 ounce bags), unwrapped
*1 tablespoon Water, per package of caramels to be used when melting
*3/4 cup fresh Brown Sugar
*3/4 cup Granulated Sugar
*1/2 to 1 tablespoon Cinnamon
*15 Wood Apple Sticks, or sticks of your choice

Wash and dry apples. Tip: if you are using purchased apples with a wax on them use 1 tablespoon Lime Juice and 1 tablespoon Baking Soda in a large glass bowl of water. Place apples into bowl and let sit a minute or so and wash/scrub apples, this will help the caramel to stick better to the apples.

Melt 1 bag of caramels, plus 1 tablespoon water at a time in the microwave (in a small round glass bowl that apples will be able to be dip in easily) removing stirring occasionally with wooden spoon until melted. (Dip as many apples as you can with one bag of caramels before melting another bag of caramels for dipping.)

Push apple sticks into bottoms of apples and dip into melted caramel 1/2 to 3/4 of the way up the apple or more if desired.

Let caramel set, meanwhile melt white chocolate chips in another small glass bowl in the microwave, watching and stirring occasionally until chips are melted.

Dip the set covered caramel apple into melted white chocolate, dipping as high-up on the apple as desired.

Apple “Pie” Sugar-Coating Mixture:

Combine and mix well the granulated sugar, brown sugar and cinnamon in a bowl or container. Place or set the caramel/wet white chocolate covered apples one at a time into mixture and scoop/sprinkle apples with apple “pie” sugar-coating.

Drizzle on white melted chocolate, as desired.

Place covered apples on (Pam (cooking spray) sprayed if desired) parchment paper or use Silpat on 1/2 baking sheet for easy removal and allow to dry and Enjoy!!!

Recipe adapted from Your Hone Based Mom

Also see Joy in my Kitchen