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Christmas crunch is essential a remix of my caramel crunch. All I add is a cup of Christmas-colored M&M’s.
This festive mix is great for watching holiday movies with the family, or for bringing to a holiday get-together.
Put it in a popcorn bucket and add a gift card to your local movie rental place, for giving to families.
Or divide up a batch in clear bags, place inside red plastic cups and tie with a ribbon to give as gifts to several people.
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Christmas Crunch
Ingredients
- 8 cups plain popped popcorn
- 1 box Cascadian Farms Multi Grain Squares
- 1 1/2 cups brown sugar
- 12 tablespoons butter 1 1/2 sticks
- 6 tablespoons corn syrup
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1 cup peanuts
- 1 cup holiday M&M's
Instructions
- Mix together cereal and popcorn in a large microwave friendly bowl and set aside
- Lightly grease 2 cookie sheets and set aside
- Mix together brown sugar, butter and corn syrup in a microwave friendly bowl
- place mixture in microwave 1 minute on high
- take it out and stir
- place mixture in microwave another minute on high
- take it out and stir
- Repeat one more minute in microwave if needed, when finished the ingredients should stir into a smooth mix.
- stir in baking soda
- pour over cereal and popcorn
- stir well
- place in microwave on high one minute
- take out and stir
- place in microwave on high one more minute
- take out and stir
- place in microwave on high one last minute
- take out and stir
- stir in peanuts
- pour mixture out onto two lightly greased cookie sheets
- allow to cool
- break up mixture and place in bowl
- mix in M&M's
I don’t have a microwave. can I heat everything on top of the stove? if so, what length of time?
I suppose you could, I wouldn’t know the length of time since I just use the microwave.