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Autumn Spiced Candy Corn with Caramel Drizzle
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Servings:
16 cups
Ingredients
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16 cups popped popcorn (about ½ cup unpopped kernels)
1 cup salted butter
1 cup packed light brown sugar
1/4 cup light corn syrup
2 tablespoons molasses
1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 cup chopped pecans, optional
1 1/2 cups Ghirardelli Dark Melting Wafers
Directions
- Preheat oven to 300°F. Line two large baking sheets with parchment paper; set aside.
- Pour popped popcorn into an extra large bowl.In a medium saucepan over medium-high heat, combine butter, brown sugar, corn syrup, molasses and pumpkin pie spice.
- Bring mixture to a boil. Boil for 4 minutes without stirring.
- Remove pan from heat and stir in vanilla and baking soda.
- Immediately pour caramel sauce over the popcorn and stir to evenly coat the popcorn. If desired, stir in pecans.
- Pour caramel corn onto prepared baking sheets and spread into an even layer with a rubber spatula.
- Bake in preheated oven for 30 minutes, stirring every 10 minutes.
- Allow caramel corn to cool completely.
- Melt Ghirardelli Dark Melting Wafers according to package directions and drizzle candy coating over cooled caramel corn.
- Allow candy coating to set and break caramel corn into pieces before serving.