How do I sweeten or add salt to popcorn?
You can sweeten the popcorn by generously sifting icing sugar over the just cooked popcorn in the bowl and give it a good toss to coat all the popcorn well. If you want a caramel popcorn you need to make caramel (castor sugar and a tiny bit of water, just a few drops) and bring to the boil and simmer until it is a rich caramel colour. From there you need to make sure the caramel is still runny enough to coat your freshly cooked popcorn. The popcorn is best laid out on a flat tray which has glad bake or grease proof paper already on it and drizzle the caramel generously over the popcorn to coat it. To make the popcorn salty and or buttery coat the freshly cooked popcorn with the salt from a shaker and or melt some butter in the microwave (enough to generously coat it) and poor over the popcorn. All of the above are great. I especially like the icing sugar popcorn and the buttery and salted popcorn (the caramel is quite sweet although it does set hard so it has a nice texture, slightly c
