4th of July Popcorn

Kenny created this for our fireworks party tonight and it's fun and yummy, so I wanted to share.  We did this recipe twice, once with cherry Jello, and once with berry blue Jello.  When they were both cooled off, we mixed them together.

*We did add a few drops of blue food coloring to the blue jello to give it a more patriotic blue hue.

Ingredients

1 c	sugar
1/2 c	powdered sugar
2 Tbsp	light corn syrup
1/4 c	water
3 oz	package of jello
1/2 c	unpopped popcorn

Directions

1.  Pop popcorn into a large bowl, set aside.

2.  In a medium size sauce pan, mix together, sugars, jello, water, and corn syrup. Cook on medium heat, stirring constantly until lightly boiling. Don't over cook.

3.  Pour jello mixture over popped popcorn stirring continuously until evenly covered. Continue stirring until popcorn has cooled down and dried to keep popcorn from sticking together. Popcorn should have a sugary, crispy coating, not gooey. 

Stays-Soft Caramel Corn

Pop 4 bags microwave popcorn

1 stick of butter in large saucepan, melt completely then add
1 can sweetened condensed milk and
1 cup corn syrup, then
2 cups brown sugar

Stir well and heat through, but don't boil much at all, just enough to dissolve the sugar.
Pour over the popcorn and enjoy. Keep leftover popcorn in an airtight container.