Sweet and Salty Caramel Popcorn

I really wish I could bake, but I can't. Every time I try the item I am baking comes out of the oven as hard as a rock and ready to be used as a weapon. While I was making caramel popcorn for the girls I suddenly realized why I am so terrible at baking. I hate measuring!! I am terrible at making sure everything is measured, I like to throw things in a pot and call it a day. So, I will probably never be a great baker but at least I can make sweet treats for the kids that don't need to be baked.

Here's the recipe for my Sweet and Salty Caramel Popcorn. It is so gooey and delicious I could eat it all day long!!

Ingredients:

About 10 cups of air popped popcorn (this is a complete guess, I was going to measure so my recipe would be accurate but I forgot to. I filled my popper to the max fill line and used most of what popped out of the machine!)

One stick of unsalted butter

One cup of white sugar

Coarse salt

Directions:

Cook sugar on medium heat until it is completely melted. Make sure to stir the sugar constantly. (A took all my pictures so I could keep stirring).

Once the sugar is melted, add butter. Continue stirring and cooking over medium heat for five minutes. Remove from heat and allow to cool for five minutes.

Arrange popcorn in a shallow layer in baking dish. Sprinkle salt over the popcorn and then drizzle with some of the caramel sauce. Add another layer of popcorn and sprinkle with salt and caramel. Continue layering until all the popcorn and caramel are gone. Mix with two forks to distribute the caramel to all the popcorn.

After the caramel is all mixed in I let it sit for a few minutes before letting the kids dig in.