TOOTSIE ROLL CARAMEL CORN

Tootsie Roll Caramel Corn image

Time 40m

Number Of Ingredients 7

Steps:

Pop all three bags of pop corn and pour into a large bowl. Sift out seed as you pour and discard them as no one wants to break a tooth! In a medium non-stick pot add corn syrup, brown sugar, butter, salt and tootsie rolls. Heat over medium-high heat, stirring constantly until mixture begins to bubble. Turn heat down so that it simmers but does not splatter you with hot syrup from boiling. Continue to stir and cook until the tootsie rolls have melted. This should not take more than a minute once the mixture is simmering (at most). Remove the mixture from the heat. Add the vanilla, stir, then pour over the popcorn. Stir to coat the popcorn. Allow the caramel to cool to warm and eat. If you prefer a crunchy caramel corn, then on an edged cookie sheet {jelly roll sheet} place a layer of non-stick foil down. Place 1/3 of caramel corn onto foil and spread out. Bake at 200*F for 10 minutes. Remove it from oven and stir. Return to oven and do this 2 more times for a total of 3 baking cycles. After it's done baking, stir one final time and continue to coat and stir your caramel corn ever 3 - 5 minutes as it cools to ensure that your entire pan does not settle into one giant crunchy clump of caramel corn. Continue this method two more times until all the caramel corn has been baked.