hi bold bakers! when you want popcorn at home, you usuallyhave to buy one of those microwaveable packets. but did you know that you can actually makeyour own homemade microwave popcorn using just a brown paper bag and some popcorn kernelsand that is it! and i'm going to show you how to make different flavors including caramelcorn. so let's get started!
paint color brown paper bag, popcorn is a fantastic snack food. it doesn'tcontain any fat, it is inexpensive and it's quick to cook. the best thing about makingit yourself is that you can add in any ingredients that you like. it is the ultimate meaningof the word: fast food. ok, so i'm going to show you how easy it isto make your own microwave popcorn. all you
need is a brown paper bag and some popcornkernels, that is it. so just stand your paper bag upright and thenpour in your popcorn kernels. now what you want to do is just gently fold the top ofthe bag to make sure it's nice and sealed. and what we're trying to do here is keep inall the steam when the popcorn is cooking. and there you have it, your own homemade bagof microwave popcorn. now this guy is ready to be cooked off. my microwave is 1200 watts so i'm cookingmy popcorn for 1:40-1:50 roughly. your timing may vary depending upon the wattage of yourmicrowave. you'll know when your popcorn is almost donebecause you won't hear it popping as much,
usually i give it a second in between popsand that's when i know it's done. our microwave popcorn is done and now forthe moment of truth. just in case you didn't believe me. just look at this white fluffypopcorn. it smells fantastic. can you believe we made this in a microwave with just a brownbag and we didn't need to add any extra fat to it. it is incredible! now i'm going to take this popcorn and showyou how you can make different delicious flavors. to make traditional buttered popcorn, allyou do is take some melted butter and pour it into your bag of popcorn. then give yourbag a bit of a shake. and then you add in your salt. you add your salt after the butterso the salt has something to stick to. give
it another nice big shake up. make sure allthe butter and salt is all mixed up. oh, my gosh. this is just like cinema popcorn.you can actually bring this bag to the cinema with you. ok, now that we have the traditionalflavor we're going to move onto a more sophisticated flavor. this next one is a flavorful parmesan androsemary popcorn. just like before, we're going to pour our melted butter all around.and then give it a shake so it gets on all the popcorn. nice! into our popcorn, i'm going to add dried parmesan.it has really good flavor. a little dried mustard for extra flavor and heat. some finelychopped, fresh rosemary. it goes really well
with the cheese. and then of course, somesalt! then just shake the bag so all the flavors get to know each other in there. this popcorn tastes so good. the rosemaryand the cheese and the little bit of salt. it has such a nice, savoury flavor to it.but i'm not going to fill up on this popcorn because next we are going to make caramelcorn in the microwave. it is so fantastic and crispy you're not even going to believeit. in a bowl, we're going to add in butter, brownsugar and maple syrup. we're going to pop this guy in the microwave until the sugardissolves and the butter melts and it actually starts to bubble up a bit. while your mixis still hot out of the microwave, add in
your salt, vanilla extract and baking soda.and then whisk all of these ingredients together. here i have a new bag of freshly popped popcorn.i'm just going to take my caramel and pour it all over the popcorn. make sure you getit all around the bag. then take a spatula and mix up your popcorn really well so youmake sure that all the popcorn gets covered in caramel. ok, all of our popcorn is coveredin caramel. so now we're going to pop this guy into the microwave not into the oven likeyou might have been thinking. back into the microwave. we're going to cook it a littlebit. then we're going to go and stir it really well and make sure all the caramel is on thepopcorn. pop it back into the microwave and keep on cooking and stirring until it comesout golden brown.
you can find all of my recipes including thispopcorn on www.biggerbolderbaking.com. our caramel corn is done and i'm really excitedto show you how it turned out. check this out. can you believe that? can you believewe made this in a microwave? it is beautiful, golden caramely and it's even crispy. it justastonishes me that you can make this in a microwave. now for your caramel corn you wantto get this lovely golden brown color but just be very careful not to go too dark oryou'll actually burn your popcorn. whether you prefer sweet, salty or even somewherein between, there's a popcorn flavor here for everyone. i really hope you try them out.
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