Have you ever had one of 'those' moments when sanity and reason are entirely abandoned for a few delicious minutes of magnificent munching on some sinful food? No? Really? I'll go first...
Yesterday I had my annual flu shot - they are usually without issue but this one left me with a sore arm and little fever and generally out of sorts. Caramel corn seemed like the perfect balm.. all I wanted, perfect in fact. I don't stock caramel corn but it's pretty easy to make... so I put the microwave in gear and got busy.
I popped up some fresh corn in coconut oil and a little salt, spread it out on wax paper and then made some fast microwave caramel. I used a fork to drizzle it over the corn, added a handful of sliced almonds and tried it. AWESOME! Perfect. The entire pan was gone in about 40 mins... embarrassing..
Here's the caramel recipe:
3/4 C sugar
1/4 cup molasses
2/3 of a stick of butter
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
In a glass bowl melt the sugar, butter and molasses together and mix to combine. Make sure the bowl has lots of room for the boil to expand.
Boil the caramel in microwave stopping every 30 secs to stir once for about 2 mins.
Remove from microwave, add vanilla and baking soda and stir. It will foam.
Quickly drizzle over popped corn. Eat.
What's your favorite guilty pleasure?
Yesterday I had my annual flu shot - they are usually without issue but this one left me with a sore arm and little fever and generally out of sorts. Caramel corn seemed like the perfect balm.. all I wanted, perfect in fact. I don't stock caramel corn but it's pretty easy to make... so I put the microwave in gear and got busy.
I popped up some fresh corn in coconut oil and a little salt, spread it out on wax paper and then made some fast microwave caramel. I used a fork to drizzle it over the corn, added a handful of sliced almonds and tried it. AWESOME! Perfect. The entire pan was gone in about 40 mins... embarrassing..
Here's the caramel recipe:
3/4 C sugar
1/4 cup molasses
2/3 of a stick of butter
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
In a glass bowl melt the sugar, butter and molasses together and mix to combine. Make sure the bowl has lots of room for the boil to expand.
Boil the caramel in microwave stopping every 30 secs to stir once for about 2 mins.
Remove from microwave, add vanilla and baking soda and stir. It will foam.
Quickly drizzle over popped corn. Eat.
What's your favorite guilty pleasure?