A few days ago I made a Pinterest board dedicated to popcorn.  We have an air-pop popcorn maker and it hasn’t been used much this summer.  When I ran across the Twix popcorn recipe, the kids started begging.

 

I found a recipe over at Six Sisters, but I altered it slightly.  Here’s my version.

 

Twix Caramel Popcorn Recipe
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups popcorn kernels – or enough popped popcorn to fill two large pans
1 cup butter
2 cups light brown sugar
1/2 cup light corn syrup
A pinch of salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla
24 “fun size” Twix candy bars, chopped into bite-size pieces (unless you have a family like mine – which will require you to buy 2 packages of 24 fun size candy bars, because they can’t stop eating the little bite sized pieces long enough to get them into the recipe)
2 cups chocolate chips, melted

Directions: 

Preheat oven to 250 degrees and place the popped corn into two large pans.  I use both halves of my roasting pan for this. Lining the pans with foil and spraying them with cooking spray will save you a lot of time when it comes to clean up.

In a saucepan melt butter over medium heat. Stir in the brown sugar, corn syrup, and salt. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Let mixture boil for about 3 minutes. Remove saucepan from heat and mix in baking soda and vanilla extract. Pour caramel over popcorn and stir until all of the popcorn is evenly coated.

Bake the popcorn/caramel mixture at 250 degrees, stirring every 15 minutes, for an hour. Spread caramel corn onto parchment paper and cool completely.

Break popcorn into pieces and mix in chopped Twix candy bars. Drizzle melted chocolate chips all over the popcorn. Let the popcorn cool until the chocolate hardens (which seems to take forever!)

 

Enjoy!