Use up some of that leftover Halloween candy by making a batch of TWIX® Caramel Popcorn!
Looking for more Halloween-themed treats? Be sure to check out our Graveyard Dirt Cake, Haunted Halloween Gingerbread House, and Halloween Sugar Cookie Bars!
TWIX® Caramel Popcorn
Who else is excited for Halloween already?! October is my favorite month, and Halloween is my favorite holiday. I love to celebrate with spooks and scares all month long, not just Halloween night.
We make a fall bucket list at the start of the season, and so much of what is on there is typically specific to the month of October.
Some of the fun things we do during October include our annual visit to the pumpkin patch, hayrides, baking Halloween cut-out sugar cookies, boo’ing friends and neighbors with goodies and treats, finishing up costumes, and hosting our annual Halloween party where everybody gets to make their own gourmet caramel apple.
And then of course, there are Halloween parades at school and trick-or-treating on Halloween night!
Personally, I’m partial to TWIX, which is always the first candy bar I go for, but all of them are delicious added into a batch of chewy caramel corn. This is also a good recipe to have on hand for after Halloween when you have leftover Halloween candy as well.
This recipe for TWIX caramel popcorn is perfect for parties from game day to Halloween. You can put out a big bowl and guests can munch on it all they want or divide it up into cellophane bags and tie the tops with some black and orange curly ribbon to deliver to neighbors.
We love the tradition of “boo’ing” where you drop off a plate of goodies anonymously with a note to pass it on so that other families can be “boo’ed” before Halloween. My girls love ringing the doorbell then running away cackling to try to hide around the corner before our target gets to the door.
How to Make Homemade TWIX Caramel Popcorn
This is the best caramel corn recipe ever if you like sweet and crunchy caramel corn. If you have never tried it before, it is so easy to learn how to make caramel popcorn at home. Once you have the hang of it, it can be a blank canvas for you to switch it up by adding nuts, candy, chocolate or white chocolate drizzles, etc. Here’s how you do it!
- Melt 2 sticks of butter in a medium saucepan, then add brown sugar, corn syrup, and salt. Stir constantly until everything combines and comes to a boil.
- Stop stirring and let the caramel bubble for 4 minutes over medium heat without stirring. Set a timer because those 4 minutes go pretty fast when you aren’t stirring!
- A soon as the timer goes off, remove the caramel from the heat and stir in the baking soda and vanilla. The caramel will bubble up for a few seconds when you first start stirring the baking soda and vanilla in, so be careful!
- Pour the hot caramel over a big bowl of popcorn. We just use plain popcorn that we pop on the stove in a large pan with a couple tablespoons of oil, but you can use the microwave kind or pop it in an air popper if you have one. It helps to drizzle the caramel over slowly, stirring the popcorn with a long wooden spoon as you go to help coat it evenly. You don’t need to worry about every piece of popcorn being coated with caramel just yet.
- Divide the caramel popcorn evenly between two baking sheets and pop them in a 250°F oven to bake for 1 hour. Stir every 15 minutes to help the caramel corn bake evenly. The low oven temperature keeps the caramel soft so it’s easy to stir and the popcorn continues to be coated with caramel until it’s all evenly enrobed in sweet, cararmely goodness.
- Once the hour is up, sprinkle the caramel corn with chopped TWIX bars and pop it back in the oven for 3 minutes to help the candy melt just enough to stick to the caramel corn really well. This is going to help create clusters of caramel popcorn that have chunks of TWIX bar in them rather than having all the candy fall to the bottom of the bowl.
- Melt some chopped milk chocolate, drizzle it over the baked caramel corn, and stick it in the fridge until the popcorn is completely cool and the chocolate has hardened. Break up the caramel corn, then store in an airtight container.
Keep in mind that the caramel corn will be still be soft when it comes out of the oven but will harden fast once it cools and become crunchy, wonderful caramel corn that is perfect for snacking!
More Halloween Treats
- Halloween Poison Candied Apples
- Halloween Chocolate Cherry Hand Pies
- Halloween Chex Mix Muddy Buddies
- Halloween Chocolate Blossom Sprinkle Cookies
- Dark Chocolate Halloween Chip Cookies
- Chocolate Lofthouse Frosted Sugar Cookies
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TWIX® Caramel Popcorn
Ingredients
- 15 cups plain popped popcorn about 1 cup of unpopcorn kernels
- 1 cup salted butter
- 2 cups light brown sugar packed
- 1/2 cup light corn syrup
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 24 fun size Twix candy bars chopped into bite-size pieces
- 2 cups milk or semisweet chocolate chips melted
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 250°F and place the popped popcorn in a large bowl, discarding any unpopped kernels. Set bowl aside.15 cups plain popped popcorn
- In a medium saucepan, melt the butter over medium heat. Stir in the brown sugar, corn syrup, and salt, then stir constantly until the caramel comes to a full boil.1 cup salted butter, 2 cups light brown sugar, ½ cup light corn syrup, 1 teaspoon salt
- Stop stirring and let the caramel mixture boil for 4 minutes without stirring. Remove the caramel from the heat and stir in the baking soda and vanilla. Pour the caramel over the popcorn in the bowl and gently stir to coat the popcorn.½ teaspoon baking soda, 1 teaspoon vanilla
- Divide the caramel popcorn evenly between two large baking sheets and bake at 250°F for 1 hour, stirring every 15 minutes. Remove from the oven and sprinkle with the chopped TWIX candy bars. Return the popcorn to the oven for 3 more minutes to let the TWIX just begin to melt into the popcorn.24 fun size Twix candy bars
- Remove the TWIX caramel corn from the oven and drizzle with melted chocolate, then cool completely until the chocolate hardens. This can be sped up by sticking the caramel popcorn in the freezer or fridge. Break up into smaller chunks and store at room temperature in an airtight container.2 cups milk or semisweet chocolate chips
This looks dangerous! Dangerous, but good!
Lol – thanks, Val!
This popcorn looks like a Halloween necessity! I can see it becoming quite addictive! Love the Halloween popper idea also. I better get to Walmart and stock up so we can try out all the different variations of popcorn!
This is such a fun idea! Awesome treat!
Looks delicious! Also, was wondering where is your front door “BOO” mat from? It’s so cute!!
Thanks, Katie! I found it at JoAnn’s just this year. They might still have some!