Licorice Popcorn

Ingredients

16 cups Popped popcorn, *
1 cup Sugar
cup Water
cup Butter
teaspoon Baking soda
teaspoon Anise extract
1 tablespoon Black food coloring

Preparation

1
* 2 Tbls of unpopped popcorn will produce 4 cups (or 1 ounce) of popped popcorn.
2
Place popcorn in large buttered baking pan. Put the sugars, water, and corn syrup into a heavy pan over medium heat and stir. After the mix has boiled, scrape sides of pan. Place a candy thermometer in the pan and cook, without further stirring, to 250 . Remove pan from heat and stir in butter, baking soda, anise extract and food coloring. Pour over popcorn, mixing well.
3
Bake, uncovered, for 1 hour, stirring occasionally. When cooled, store in air-tight containers.

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Comments

Dianne's picture

Everyone's giving the same licorice popcorn recipe. The only problem is, no one's supplying the temperature to bake the coated popcorn at, after the syrup reaches 250.

Yield:

36.0 servings

Added:

Friday, February 12, 2010 - 5:48pm

Creator:

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