Chill with your sweetheart this Valentine’s Day and whip up this special treat to munch on while you enjoy a movie at home! Also, known as Crack Corn around this place, this caramel corn is absolutely delicious, highly addictive and might I say SIMPLE! Here, let me show you how!

Ingredients:

4 quarts popped corn
2 cups dry roasted nuts
1¼ cup sugar
2/3 cup butter
2/3 cup dark corn syrup
1 and ½ teaspoons vanilla

The first thing I’ve done is pop up four quarts of popcorn in the microwave. That’s four quarts (or 16 cups) of already popped corn! That’s very important.  And now that we have that straight, we’ll pour our popcorn in a 9×13 metal pan, toss it with two cups of your favorite roasted nuts and set it aside!

Meanwhile, over here on the stove, I’ve got my sugar mixture boiling. It’s two-thirds cup of butter, two-thirds cup of dark corn syrup and one and a fourth cup of sugar. When it reaches 260 degrees on my candy thermometer I’ll pour it over my popcorn and nuts and slide the whole pan in a 250 degree oven for about an hour. Don’t forget to stir it occasionally. Let it cool, break it apart and store it in a tight container!