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| Prep Time: | 10 mins |
| Cook Time: | 36 mins |
| Additional Time: | 10 mins |
| Total Time: | 56 mins |
| Servings: | 8 |
| Yield: | 8 cups |
Ingredients
- cooking spray
- 8 cups popped popcorn
- 1 cup white sugar
- ¼ cup water
- ⅓ cup Buffalo wing sauce (such as Frank’s®)
- 3 tablespoons butter, cut into small cubes
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper (Optional)
Instructions
- Spray a large bowl with cooking spray. Fill with popcorn.
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone pad.
- Combine sugar and water in a saucepan and bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Cook, without stirring and swirling pan gently as needed, until sugar has melted and the caramel is a deep amber color, 8 to 12 minutes. Remove from heat.
- Stir Buffalo sauce and butter carefully into the caramel; it will spit and bubble and may form a ball. Return to heat; bring to a boil, stirring until caramel is dissolved, about 3 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in the baking soda and cayenne pepper.
- Pour spicy caramel mixture carefully over the popcorn. Toss to completely coat, guarding your hands from the hot caramel. Spread the coated popcorn onto the prepared baking sheet.
- Bake in the preheated oven until dry, 15 to 20 minutes. Let cool for 10 minutes; stir.
- You can also pop about 1/2 cup of unpopped popcorn to yield 8 cups.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 210 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 32 g |
| Cholesterol | 11 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 1 g |
| Saturated Fat | 4 g |
| Sodium | 503 mg |
| Sugars | 25 g |
| Fat | 10 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Can you use caramelized sweetened condensed milk instead of caramelized water and sugar?
The recipe is supposed to serve 8. There are only 2 of us and it is not last long. I will definitely be making this again, and soon. Great recipe!
Wow! This didn’t last long with my family!! I saw that this didn’t have any reviews and created an account just so that I could be the first. 🙂 . We made this vegan just by using Smart Balance butter. Fantastic and easy to make!