HM Popcorn?

Vibrant

My popcorn maker is shaped like a duck, wearing a red bow tie and hat. I bought it when my trusty Remington blew up.
Everyone who goes in the kitchen, looks around, points, and says "what the hell is that!"
I never realised you could have so many toppings, I usually have mine plain, or with a drizzle of margarine, I will have to experiment.

wigglywoozle

I have a bag of popping corn which has been in the cupboard forever and OH and I have decided to stay in tonight and watch a movie (free Tesco rental trial ), have HM fish and chips and popcorn but how do I make it toffee/sweet style?

I know I could just put sugar on it, but I want a proper coating. I have light and dark muscovado sugar, butter, milk, condensed milk, white sugar, light brown sugar, demarera sugar, treacle, golden syrup, maple flavoured golden syrup (I make a lot of Nigella's recipes, hence the vast amounts of sweet syrupy stuff lol!). I think I could make some sort of coating from that lot(!), but of anyone has a tried and tested recipe, I'd love to know

Thanks

Kate x

Rikki

Butter, brown sugar and syrup.

I don't really have a recipe.

2-3 oz butter - melt in a saucepan
1/2 cup brown sugar - add to melted butter
1/4 cup golden syrup - add to melted butter and sugar

Gently mix until the butter is fully melted and the sugar has liquefied. You may need to briefly increase the heat to medium. Once everything is well blended your toffee sauce is done.
Drizzle the hot toffee mixture over the popcorn and stir simultaneously with the mixing spoon. Continue until the popped corn is evenly coated with the toffee sauce.


Edit:
Its the same as you make for chocolate rice crispies but with out the cocoa powder.

Butterfly_Brain

What I normally do is start the sugar & water boiling, then cook the popcorn, tip the popcorn out into a bowl to stop the cooking... when the caramel is a light golden colour, I cut the soft butter (not cold from the fridge) into small bits, tip it into the caramel, then tip the popcorn back into the still warm saucepan you cooked it in, quickly pour in the caramel, stir, tip everything out onto a baking tray, then into the fridge or freezer to cool it quickly.

wigglywoozle

Fab! I'll give this a go later

Penelope_Penguin

We have an existing thread on making popcorn, so I'll merge this to keep ideas together.

Enjoy your evening in :beer:

Penny. x

wigglywoozle

Sorry. I did search but nothing came up! Please do move it. Thanks

wigglywoozle

Rikki wrote: »

Butter, brown sugar and syrup.

I don't really have a recipe.

2-3 oz butter - melt in a saucepan
1/2 cup brown sugar - add to melted butter
1/4 cup golden syrup - add to melted butter and sugar

Gently mix until the butter is fully melted and the sugar has liquefied. You may need to briefly increase the heat to medium. Once everything is well blended your toffee sauce is done.
Drizzle the hot toffee mixture over the popcorn and stir simultaneously with the mixing spoon. Continue until the popped corn is evenly coated with the toffee sauce.


Edit:
Its the same as you make for chocolate rice crispies but with out the cocoa powder.

Tried this last night and it was FANTASTIC! We'll defintely be doing this again! I have some toffee mixture left over so I'm going to add some chocolate and make crispie cakes for dd to take to school this week, and possibly OH to take to work if there's enough

Kate x

thriftlady_2

I do something very similar to Rikki but a bit more instant.

I just put a couple of tbsp of butter plus a tbsp of golden syrup in a microwaveable bowl, melt and toss in the popcorn. The kids love it.

Btw, when I put 'popcorn' in the search box the first result is this thread.

xxvickixx

I bought a bag of popping corn from asda (rolled back from £2 to 30p) and I just made a tiny amount, however then it popped and I have a saucepan full of the stuff!
What can I put on it to make it more tasty?
Can I make a toffee type sauce or something?

Thanks