How to Make This Organic Maple Caramel Corn Recipe With Evaporated Cane Juice

Call it carmel corn, caramel corn, or caramel popcorn, we grew up with it and love it, and can make our own healthy organic “carmel corn” with this caramel corn recipe.

This article also includes tips for making this caramel corn recipe into a carry-along snack similar to old-fashioned Cracker Jacks that had token surprises inside (see Tips).

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 8 cups organic popped popcorn
• ½ teaspoon sea salt or Himalayan pink salt
• ¼ cup organic butter, plus extra to butter the cookie sheet
• ½ cup pure organic maple syrup
• ½ cup evaporated cane juice (the kind that’s the color of medium brown sugar and largish lumps)
• 4-quart Dutch oven
• Cookie sheet
• Optional: organic roasted peanuts, party favor tokens and food-safe party treat boxes

1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees

2. Butter the cookie sheet

3. Combine the sugar, butter, syrup and salt in the Dutch oven

4. Heat to simmering while constantly stirring

5. Add popped popcorn, stirring constantly until all popcorn is coated

6. Immediately spread onto buttered cookie sheet

7. Bake for about 15 minutes – but watch your caramel corn recipe like a hawk at this stage. It can burn quickly

8. Remove and cool for 10 minutes

9. Loosen caramel corn with a spatula

10. Let cool another hour at room temperature to harden. This caramel recipe makes 8 one-cup servings.

Tips & Warnings

• This caramel corn recipe can mimic healthy old-fashioned Cracker Jacks by adding one cup organic roasted peanuts to the popcorn while coating it with the sweetener. Store single portions in food-safe party goodie boxes (the kind that look like fancier fast-food take-out boxes, but with handles and in brighter colors). Get small child appropriate trinkets at party stores and drop one in the box before adding the caramel corn. Use for kids’ treats at home, during outdoor movies, or to take as a health snack to local outdoor ball games.
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[healthymomof5]

on 2/4/2009 Yummy! I'm going to save this to my favorites and try it.5*