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Peanut Butter Caramel Corn
December 30, 2014 By Anna 2 Comments
As promised, here’s a recipe for a peanut butter coated caramel corn. I drizzled chocolate on half of it, and a mixture of melted peanut butter chips & coconut oil on the other. It turned out exactly as I was hoping and had a nice, crispy texture.
To get the crispy texture I used the basic Betty Crocker Oven Baked Caramel Corn formula of 1 cup sugar, 1/2 cup butter and 1/4 cup syrup, but used a mixture of regular and brown sugar in place of just brown (to downplay the molasses) and added 1/4 cup peanut butter. For the first batch I used Jif, which has sugar. For the second, I used Trader Joe’s peanut butter, which does not have sugar. Both types of peanut…
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