You can make any occasion more fun by adding popcorn.To celebrate Christmas, pastels for a baby shower, or create a snack for the Super Bowl, try a bunch of red and green.You can choose between standard popcorn, sweet caramel corn or fruit-flavoured popcorn in any colour of the rainbow.
Step 1: Take your ingredients.
If you want a caramel corn taste with a twist, this recipe is for you.Popcorn with a sweet and salty flavour is always a hit.You can use liquid food colouring to dye it.You'll need butter, canola oil, corn syrup, salt, liquid food colouring, and 1/3 cup of popcorn.
Step 2: The butter, oil, syrup, and salt should be melted together.
Put the butter, oil, syrup and salt in a pot.Once they're completely combined, melt the ingredients together.To incorporate the ingredients, stir occasionally.
Step 3: Add food coloring.
Stir in a small amount of liquid food coloring.Add more or less if you want the popcorn to have a deeper colour.Use a spoon to mix the food.
Step 4: Pop some popcorn.
Put 1/3 cup of popcorn into the pot and stir it around so that it's coated in the syrup mixture.Put a tight-fitting lid on the pot.The kernels begin to pop as you shake the pot.Remove the pot from the heat when the popping slows.If you don't want to use the microwave.Put the syrup mixture and popcorn in a microwave safe bowl.For three to four minutes, pop the popcorn on high.Since the syrup will get very hot, do not use a plastic bowl, even if it's microwave safe.It's important to use a glass one.
Step 5: The popcorn should be put on a baking sheet to cool.
You can line the baking sheet with paper to keep the popcorn from sticking.Allow it to cool completely by spreading it into a thin, single layer.As it cools, the popcorn will get crisp.Store it in a container.
Step 6: Pick up your ingredients.
There is a way to add flavour and colour to popcorn.The bright flavours and colors make this recipe perfect for parties.You'll need 8 cups of popped popcorn, butter, corn syrup, sugar, and fruit drink mix.
Step 7: The temperature in the oven should be 300 F.
Prepare a baking sheet by lining it with paper or cooking oil, and then setting it aside.
Step 8: The popcorn needs to be put into a bowl.
You should be able to reach in and mix the popcorn with the flavouring if it's big.
Step 9: The butter, syrup, sugar, and flavouring should be melted together.
Put them in a small pot and heat them up.Bring the mixture to a boil and then reduce the heat.Bring the mixture to a boil for 5 minutes.
Step 10: Put the mixture over popcorn.
If you want to make sure every piece of popcorn gets coated, use a long-handled wooden spoon to stir the mixture with the popcorn.
Step 11: The popcorn is spread on the baking sheet.
Spread it out in a single layer with the spoon.Pick out the popcorn that isn'tpopped.
Step 12: Popcorn should be baked for 10 minutes.
The popcorn becomes harder to eat, rather than softer.If you want it to be more tender, bake it for 15 minutes.Take your popcorn out after 5 minutes if you like it.
Step 13: Popcorn should be kept cool.
Store the popcorn in a container until it's cool enough to handle.
Step 14: Get your ingredients.
This simple recipe is for classic salted popcorn and it's colourful.This popcorn will turn out delicious and vibrantly coloured, but unlike the sweet caramel version, it will dye your fingers and mouth with food coloring.This recipe will make you want to have green, red or blue fingers and lips.You can make the sweet caramel or fruity kind.Here's what you'll need to make buttered popcorn with a pop of colour.
Step 15: Put a small amount of butter in a bowl.
If you want to pop the popcorn, place the butter in a stockpot or large bowl.If you're using a pot, melt the butter on the stove.You can melt a big plastic bowl in the microwave.
Step 16: The food coloring is in the mixture.
You only want to use a few drops of food coloring since the popcorn will stain your fingers and lips.If you want to give your popcorn a burst of colour, pour in five to ten drops.If you're using red food coloring, make sure it says "unflavoured" on the label.Red food coloring has a bitter flavour, but if it's labeled as unflavoured, it won't.
Step 17: The popcorn needs to be popped.
Stir the 1/3 cup of kernels into the butter mixture and they will be completely coated.Popcorn can be cooked in the microwave or on the stove.If you're using a pot, cover it with a tight-fitting lid and place it on the stove.As the popcorn begins to pop, shake the pot every few moments.Remove the pot from the heat when the popping slows.Place a bowl in the microwave if you are using it.The kernels can be microwaved for two to three minutes.Remove the bowl from the microwave when the popping stops.
Step 18: To enjoy the popcorn, put it into a bowl and salt it to taste.
The popcorn will taste the same as regular popcorn.You should wash your hands after eating popcorn to remove food coloring from your fingers.