Popcorn Balls

LizAnn's Note:

I made these for a Valentine's Day bake sale and they were the first to go! The recipe was given to me by a friend.

• Total Time: 20 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 5 mins

Ingredients:

Yield: 30 Popcorn ...

• ½ cup butter
• 3 cups brown sugar
• 1 cup Karo syrup
• 1 (14 ounce) can eagle brand sweetened condensed milk
• 1 tablespoon vanilla
• 4 -6 quarts popped corn

Directions:

1. bring to boil butter, sugar, syrup.
2. add condensed milk- boil 5 minute.
3. remove from heat and add vanilla.
4. strain seeds from popcorn.
5. pour hot mixture over popcorn and mix.
6. grease hands and make balls out of mixture.
7. *extra note;
8. To remove the seeds, I usually take two bowls and lift out the popcorn by the hand fulls and shaking it, then dumping it into the extra bowl. When I get to the bottom, there lies most of the seeds. I just discard them and go on with the rest.
9. Hope you can visualize that and that it helps!

Reviews

[Jessica Hoylman]

Great recipe. Fun and easy to make with kids, great flavor and they stick together really well. The kids loved them. Thanks for sharing!

[Parrot Head Mama]

Great, east recipe. I used 4 bags of microwave popcorn and also tried coloring them (for my son to take to school for his birthday treat). I followed the tips given in some of the reviews here and waited until the syrup was cool enough to handle and it worked great. My only advice would be to those who are considering trying to color the sugar syrup with Jello is to use SUGAR FREE (I tried both kinds and they worked OK, but the sugared kind sort of altered the coating consistency a bit) and to not expect SUPER bright colors because the syrup itself is a light brown. Thanks for posting this! It will be fun to experiment with.

[4sweeper]

These taste great and they stick together nicely. We will definitely make them again. One thing to watch out for: we found that we had to stir vigorously while boiling to prevent burning....the first batch we tried was ruined because we didn't stir continuously even though we used low temperature and a high quality heavy-bottomed pot.