Dessert Old-Fashioned Popcorn Balls
Bake about 10 min. Makes about 16 popcorn balls. 1cp pecans 1cp sliced almonds 1 1/2cp sweetened flaked coconut 16 cups popped corn, (about 3/4cp un-popped kernels) 1 1/4cp packed brown sugar 1 1/4cp dark corn syrup 6tbs butter or margarine 1/2tsp salt 1/2tsp vanilla extract 1/4tsp baking soda. 1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Place pecans and almonds in a 17 inch by 11 and 1/2 inch roasting pan. Place the coconut in a 15 and 1/2 inch by 10 and 1/2 inch jellyroll pan. Place both pans on 2 oven racks and bake the nuts and coconut for 10 to 15 min or until toasted, rotating the pans between upper and lower racks halfway through baking and stirring occasionally. Stir nuts into the coconut on the jellyroll pan. Cool completely. 2. Line a large cookie sheet with foil. Spray lined cookie sheet and same roasting pan with non-stick cooking spray. Place the popcorn in the roasting pan. Discard any un-popped kernels. Sprinkle the nut mixture over the popcorn. 3. In a heavy 3 quart saucepan, heat the brown sugar, corn syrup and the butter and salt to boiling over medium-high heat, stirring frequently. Reduce the heat to medium. Boil for 5 min. Remove saucepan from heat. Stir in vanilla and baking soda. The mixture will foam up. Pour the hot caramel syrup over the popcorn mixture. With 2 forks, toss the popcorn mixture, while hot, until evenly coated with the caramel. 4. Working quickly, scoop up the hot popcorn mixture by level cups. Place popcorn mounds onto the prepared cookie sheet. When the popcorn mixture is cool enough to handle, coat your hands with non-stick cooking spray. Shape the mounds into balls, pressing lightly SO THAT THEY HOLD TOGETHER. Cool completely. Wrap each ball in plastic wrap. Store in a tightly covered container at room temperature up to 1 week. Enjoy. -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. SPAMfighter has removed 3281 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len Do you have a slow PC? Try Free scan http://www.spamfighter.com/SLOW-PCfighter?cid=sigen _______________________________________________ Cookinginthedark mailing list [email protected] http://acbradio.org/mailman/listinfo/cookinginthedark
