Dark Chocolate Covered Popcorn Snack

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 8 cups popped popcorn
• 1 cup nuts, toasted (pecans,peanuts,cashews or almonds)
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup light corn syrup
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 6 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 250 degrees.
• 2 place the popped corn and nuts in a large roasting pan and mix together.
• 3 in a medium saucepan over medium heat, combine the sugar, corn syrup, salt, and butter.
• 4 bring to a boil, stirring constantly. stir in the chocolate. continue to cook, stirring constantly, until the chocolate is completely melted and the mixture becomes very thick.
• 5 remove from the heat and stir in the vanilla. pour the chocolate syrup over the popcorn and nuts in the roasting pan and stir to coat evenly.
• 6 bake for 1 hour, stirring occasionally. place the hot poppycock on a large cookie sheet, lined with foil and lightly coated with a nonstick cooking spray, to cool. store poppycock in a plastic ziploc bag.