Butter pecan popcorn
Butter pecan popcorn recipe in the popcorn category
Recipe ingredients:
- 8 cups popped popcorn, about 1/3 to 1/2 cup unpopped
- Nonstick spray coating
- 1/2 cup broken pecans
- 2 tablespoons butter or margarine
- 1/3 cup light corn syrup
- 1/4 cup instant butter pecan pudding mix
- 3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
Recipe method:
- Discard unpopped popcorn kernels.
- Spray a 17 x 12 x 2 inch roasting pan with nonstick coating.
- Place the popped corn and pecans in the pan.
- Keep popcorn warm in a 300 degrees F oven while making coating.
- In a small saucepan melt the margarine or butter.
- Remove saucepan from heat.
- Stir in the corn syrup, pudding mix and vanilla extract.
- Pour syrup mixture over popcorn.
- With a large spoon, gently toss the popcorn with the syrup mixture to coat.
- Bake popcorn, uncovered, in a 300 degrees F oven for 16 minutes, stirring halfway through baking.
- Remove the pan from the oven.
- Turn mixture onto a large piece of foil.
- Cool popcorn completely.
- When cool, break into large pieces.
- Store leftover popcorn, tightly covered, in a cool, dry place for up to 1 week.
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