Caramel Corn "Puffs"

photo by Chef floWer




- Ready In:
- 55mins
- Ingredients:
- 5
- Serves:
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8
ingredients
- 1 bag unflavored corn puffs
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 cup corn syrup
- 1⁄2 cup butter
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
directions
- Bring the brown sugar, corn syrup and butter to a boil.
- Add the baking soda and stir.
- Pour the corn puffs into a cake pan and pour the caramel over, stir to coat
- Bake at 250F, stirring every 10 minutes for 45 minutes.
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Reviews
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Don't pull this off the heat as soon as it begins to boil. Boil it for about 2 - 2 1/2 minutes, whisking as it boils. Then, pull it off the heat, whisk in the baking soda and go from there. Allowing the butter and brown sugar to boil a bit guarantees the sugar 'melts' so that it's not gritty, and it also deepens the flavor a bit.
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These are OUTSTANDING! Made it twice this week. Once for our teacher luncheon (gave the teacher bags to munch on during the breaks at the conferences) and for a Halloween party. The first batch was completely consumed by my husband and 2 kids in under an hour... had to hide the rest! I live in Michigan and used Better Made Corn Puffs. There is a similar recipes on the bag except it calls for 1/2 POUND of butter. I like this recipe better (literally half the fat). I had to use 2 bowls to coat the puffs and baked on a rimmed non stick cookie sheet I stirred every 15 minutes. Thanks for posting MissErin!
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************ WARNING! These are totally addictive ************. I made these because the recipe was recommended in the Aussie/Kiwi thread (Thanks **Jubes**) and because I wanted to bring a plate to my daughters friends birthday party. I used 170 gram bag of organic corn puffs and I substituted the corn syrup with glucose syrup (which is derived from corn). I baked them in a lined large flat tray at 130oC. I'm glad I used baking paper as I would of had a hard time removing the left over caramel off the tray. They turned out crunchy and delicious. Thanks Miss Erin for sharing your yummy recipe.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Miss Erin C.
Minneapolis, Missouri
Mom to 4 boys, city dweller, eater, craft beer enthusiast, original Recipezaar member.