Smooth Caramel Chocolate Peanut Popcorn

Pop up some popcorn to taste like your customer’s favorite candy bar. It’s easy to make with Gold Medal’s corn treat concentrate mix. With just a few ingredients you can offer this fun treat.

Ingredients

• 5 Gallons of popped mushroom style popcorn (recommend #2031 Monster Mushroom Popcorn®)
• 1 package of  #2096 Basic Corn Treat Mix
• 12 oz. Water
• 4 Cups Sugar (white, brown, or combination)
• #2250 Free ‘N Easy
• 4 oz. of oil
• 2 Cups Salted Peanuts
• 2 Cups Chocolate Morsels
• Milk Chocolate Flavor Wafers #5371 (optional)

Directions

• Take lid off Mark 5 cooker mixer 
• Add the following directly to the cooker mixer
• 1 package of  #2096 Basic Corn Treat Mix
• 12 oz. Water
• 4 Cups Sugar (white, brown, or combination)
• 4 oz. of oil
• Turn on heat/motor switch on
• Place the lid back on the cooker mixer
• When you see steam coming out of the lid (approx. 8 minutes into cooking process), remove the lid
• When buzzer sounds, letting you know the mix is up to temperature, turn heat/motor switch OFF
• Turn motor switch ON
• Add the 5 gallons of popped popcorn to the cooker mixer
• Add 2 Cups of Salted Peanuts
• Tilt Cooker to 2nd position (tumble position) to let popcorn mix
• Spray 10 squirts of #2250Qt Free ‘N Easy into the kettle (this will help the corn from sticking to itself)
• Let popcorn mix for 1 minute inside cooker mixer, or until completed coated
• Dump popcorn into cooling tray
• Cool popcorn for 10 minutes by stirring and separating popcorn constantly
• As the popcorn cools and is dry to the touch add 2 cups of chocolate morsels and continue to stir / separate
• Pump up the flavor by drizzling popcorn with Milk Chocolate flavor wafers – melted
• Bag or store popcorn