Halloween Caramel Popcorn Munch Recipe

It’s Halloween, and there’s nothing better than a homemade caramel popcorn munch recipe to eat at home or take to a party.

 

This recipe is a part of #HalloweenTreatsWeek, a yearly online get-together of bloggers sharing fun and delicious treats for the holiday.

Get Out The Candy Corn

You can have a lot of fun with this holiday recipe. Get some fun candy sprinkles, plenty of candy corn, and lots of drizzled chocolate.

• Green and orange M&M’s make a fun addition to this treat, if you want to add more candy options.
• You can choose to drizzle white chocolate over the top or change it out for milk chocolate.
• Or, you can add orange food dye to the white chocolate and make it even more Halloween-ish.
• I found some fun googly candy eyes on Amazon that was a perfect addition to the treat.

Homemade Caramel Popcorn

This recipe starts out with the bones, or in other words, the tasty homemade caramel that holds the popcorn together. And, it’s a wonderful buttery flavored caramel that coats the popcorn made out of brown sugar, corn syrup, and of course, butter.

How To Make Caramel Popcorn

Start the homemade caramel recipe by adding two sticks of butter to a saucepan on medium-high heat.

Once the butter starts to melt, pour in the light corn syrup.

Next, add the brown sugar and salt and stir everything together. The combination of the three ingredients makes a rich and flavorful caramel sauce that is out-of-this-world.

Bring the caramel mixture to a boil and let it boil for five minutes, stirring occasionally.

Pour the hot caramel sauce over the popcorn and stir to coat as much of the popcorn as possible.

You might not get all of the popcorn coated, and that’s ok. I used 30 cups of popcorn, so I had to pour half of the caramel over a bowl and half over another bowl.

You can also add the peanuts, almonds, and pretzels to the popcorn before adding the caramel if you’d like to coat those pieces, as well.

Once you spread the popcorn out on the cookie sheet, top with the pretzels, almonds, candy corn, googly eyes, and peanuts.

I used parchment paper underneath the popcorn because it comes right off, and you won’t have to spend half of your night cleaning caramel off of cookie sheets.

Add the white chocolate chips to a small bowl and melt in the microwave in increments of 30 seconds.

If you’re going to add food coloring, add it right after you melt the chocolate.

Drizzle the melted white chocolate over the popcorn, pretzels, peanuts, almonds, and candy.

Cover the white chocolate with sprinkles while it’s still warm, and they will stick nicely.

Let the popcorn cool on the counter or in the refrigerator until the chocolate and caramel harden.

Once the caramel and white chocolate harden, break the popcorn apart and place it into containers or a baggie.

We ended up with three and a half large gallon bags of caramel popcorn.

If you love popcorn recipes, give this caramel chocolate popcorn recipe a try or some cinnamon sugar popcorn during the Autumn season, from All Recipes.