All the sweet and salty taste you love about caramel corn using real ingredients and zero refined sugar!
It’s about that time of year again isn’t it?!
We get through those first couple of months of school and then bam!
Everything from halloween or harvest parties, to Thanksgiving and holiday parties have our kids in a frenzy of festivities…and all the sugar to go along with it.
Unfortunately this is also about the time of year we get less fresh air and less circulating of fresh air indoors, and that coupled with more sugar in our bodies can make for weakened immune systems. I love to celebrate all of the fun fall and winter holidays that come with the end of a calendar year, but I also understand that even with a pretty clean diet and great supplements, even the healthiest kid can become run down when cold bugs have sugar to feast on more frequently.
I don’t, however, want to take the fun out of every holiday!
Food was most definitely made to be enjoyed – and I absolutely believe that. While I still have very little ones at home, I feel pretty responsible for what goes into their bodies at this crucial growing age, so when the holidays come around, we do the fun food in a real food way. This halloween we decided on caramel corn for our special treat! We played around with the ingredients this weekend, and boy was it delicious!
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Homemade Honey Sweetened Caramel Corn
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1/4 cup raw honey
- 1/2 cup non-GMO popping corn
Our local grocer sells non-GMO popping corn which is where I got ours - 1/4-1/2 tsp sea salt to your taste
Instructions
- Melt the butter in a small sauce pan, turn off the heat, and then add the raw honey to melt in. Set aside while you make the popcorn.
- Pop your popcorn in a simple air popper or stovetop, and put into a large mixing bowl.
- Pour half the melted butter and honey into the popped popcorn, toss to coat, and then pour the last half of the butter/honey mixture to toss and coat.
- Sea salt your caramel corn to your taste and toss to coat. You can serve this warm right away, or you can put the caramel corn in the fridge or freezer to harden up a little to feel like the crispier candy shell that caramel corn usually has!
For more real food treat ideas you can follow my Treat Ideas board on Pintrest!
More real food recipes you might like:
Gluten Free Chocolate Chunk Blender Cookies
Gluten Free Thumbprint Cookies
What a perfect treat! Yum!
Love the photos. How much fun!!!
This is such a fun recipe! My family would love this! Pinned and sharing.
Beautiful! As always. Pinned.
I’m going to make this!
I have to agree with you Renee Halloween can be a bit of a nightmare for those on a real food diet. This honey sweetened caramel corn looks like the perfect balance between fun and healthy! I’m sure my daughter will love it!
Your balanced attitude is fantastic! Food is made to be enjoyed, and that can be done in a way that nourishes our little ones. The recipe is so simple, and sounds so delicious!
Oh my gosh, this sounds amazing! I love kettle corn AND caramel corn, but the latter usually ends up upsetting my stomach cause it’s way too sweet & has gross ingredients. Your recipe looks like such a great alternative. I will definitely have to try this the next time I have a sweet tooth.
This sounds wonderful! My dad grows popcorn so we eat it a lot.
That looks and sounds amazing!! Yum!
Delicious sweetened popcorn for trick and treaters.
It is such a great treat. What I do after adding the butter and honey, I put in a baking pan and put in a low temperature oven. This helps to dry the honey onto the popcorn. Stir as it’s in oven.
Great tip Faye! Thanks!