Caramel Apple Popcorn Balls

You'll find this caramel is the best kind for making popcorn balls, soft and pliable it's easy to bite into, but cools firm enough to hold the balls together. Oh, and it's good. So good. Enjoy! Enjoy!

1 stick butter

1 cup brown sugar

1/2 c. light corn syrup

1/4 c. sweetened condensed milk

1/4 tsp. apple flavoring oil

1/2 tsp. Wilton no-flavor red coloring paste

Combine all ingredients (except apple flavoring) in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring constantly. Once boiling, cook for 2 1/2 minutes (just until soft-ball stage). Remove from heat, add flavoring & coloring, then allow to cool slightly.

Pour caramel over 6-8 cups of fresh popped popcorn. If using an air-popper, 1/3 cup of kernels makes the perfect sized batch of popped corn. Save your teeth: Don't forget to remove any unpopped seeds. When caramel is poured over popcorn, stir until well coated, then begin forming into large, well-packed balls. Stick a wooden dowel into the center of each popcorn ball. (To decorate wooden dowels, simply hot-glue ribbons and a paper leaf on before poking into popcorn balls). If you still know where your self-control is, be sure to cool & set completed balls before serving.

I plan on making these for our Harvest Festival

Pop-Pops
{Vanilla Caramel Popcorn Pops}
I truly love this caramel recipe for it's versatility and taste. It makes a lovely, creamy caramel which is both pliable enough to form shapes, and firm enough when dried to hold those shapes. And, doesn't a stick make everything more appetizing?!

1 stick butter

1 cup brown sugar

1/2 c. light corn syrup

1/4 c. sweetened condensed milk

1/4 tsp. pure vanilla

Combine all ingredients (except apple vanilla) in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring constantly. Once boiling, cook for 2 1/2 minutes (just until soft-ball stage). Remove from heat, add vanilla. Allow to cool slightly.

Pour caramel over 6-8 cups of fresh popped popcorn. When caramel is poured over popcorn, stir until well coated, then begin packing carameled popcorn into a 1/2 cup sized greased measuring cup. I used the cup that sits atop my Popcorn Air-Popper and it worked like a charm. Gently press a sucker stick into the center of each popcorn ball. Allow completed pops to set on parchment paper until cooled.

Creamy Potato Soup...

In a large saucepan cook 4 slices of bacon. Set bacon aside, along with 3 tablespoons of bacon drippings.

Add 3 potatoes, peeled and chopped, 1 onion chopped, 1 carrot chopped, 1 cup chopped celery to bacon drippings. Add enough water to cover vegetables and cook over low heat until tender, stirring occasionally.

Stir in 2 cups milk...

salt and pepper.

Bring to a boil.

Sour cream mixed with flour and paprika is used as thickener.

In a separate bowl, stir together sour cream, flour and paprika.

Gradually stir 1 cup of hot soup mixture into sour cream mixture.

Pour sour cream mixture into soup mixture. Cook until good and bubbly hot. Top with chopped bacon pieces.

Creamy Potato Soup

4 slices bacon

3 large potatoes, peeled and chopped

1 onion, chopped

1 carrot, chopped

1 cup chopped celery

water to cover

2 cups milk

2 teaspoons salt

1 teaspoon ground black pepper

1 cup sour cream

2 tablespoons all-purpose flour

2 teaspoon paprika

In a large saucepan cook bacon until crisp. Set bacon aside, along with 3 tablespoons of bacon drippings.

Add potatoes, onion, carrot and celery to drippings. Add enough water to cover vegetables and cook over low heat until tender, stirring occasionally.

Stir in milk, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil.

In a separate bowl, stir together sour cream, flour and paprika. Gradually stir 1 cup of hot soup mixture into sour cream mixture.

Pour sour cream mixture into sour mixture. Cook until good and bubbly hot. Top with chopped bacon pieces.

The Eatery's Chicken Salad~

This recipe is very easy to cut-down. Just add how much you would like.

Chicken breasts cut up, grapes sliced, celery chopped...

Saute' slivered almonds in butter...

Add to chicken mixture...

Stir...

Add mayonnaise...

and the real whipping cream...

add additional seasoning to taste.

Enjoy on a buttery croissant, nut bread, or a single scoop on a bed of lettuce.

The Eatery's Chicken Salad~

3 pounds chicken breasts, boiled with

Tony's Cajun seasoning

1 1/2 cups mayonnaise

1 1/2 cups real whipping cream, slightly whipped

3 cups grapes, sliced

2 cups slivered almonds, saute' in butter

2 cups celery, chopped

Boil chicken and cut up. Add grapes, celery, saute' almonds, mayonnaise, whipping cream, and additional seasoning to taste.

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