Sweet & salty dark chocolate salted caramel corn made with dark brown sugar and delicious dark chocolate. The perfect treat for sharing with friends and watching your favorite movies!
Course Dessert
Cuisine popcorn
Keyword caramel corn, dark chocolate, dark chocolate salted caramel corn, homemade popcorn
Prep Time 15 minutesminutes
Cook Time 1 hourhour
Total Time 1 hourhour15 minutesminutes
Servings 4
Author Monique Volz of AmbitiousKitchen.com
Ingredients
1/2cupunpopped popcorn, or 1 bag of popcorn
1/2cupMelt spread, or butter
1/3cupdark brown sugar
1/4cuplight corn syrup
1tspbaking soda
1/2-1tspsea salt
2tablespoonsdark chocolate chips
Instructions
Pop your popcorn with whatever method you choose. Place half of the popcorn in a 9x13 baking pan.
In a saucepan heat Melt or butter on low until all of it is melted. Add brown sugar and corn syrup and stir for about 2 minutes, or until sugar is dissolved and well combined.
Add baking soda and stir for 30 seconds until caramel becomes bubbly. Turn off heat and pour half of the caramel sauce on popcorn in pan.
Add the rest of the popcorn and caramel sauce and fold popcorn over until it is fully coated with sauce.
Sprinkle sea salt over caramel popcorn and again fold over.
Place in oven making sure to stir popcorn every 10 minutes for about 40 minutes.
Take out of oven and immediately remove popcorn from baking pan and spread evenly on wax paper. Allow to cool for 10 minutes.
Take your dark chocolate chips and melt them in a microwave safe dish for 20-30 seconds, stirring until chips are all melted.
Drizzle melted chocolate all over caramel corn and allow to harden for 20 minutes. Enjoy! Serves 4.