Chocolate Caramel Nut Popcorn

Ingredients

• 8 cups popped popcorn
• 1 cup Fisher pecans
• 1 cup Fisher walnuts, chopped roughly
• 1 cup milk chocolate chips, melted
• 1 teaspoon Sea Salt, optional

Caramel Sauce

• ½ cup heavy cream
• 1 cup brown sugar, packed
• 4 tablespoons butter
• Pinch of salt
• 1 tablespoon vanilla

Instructions

1. Line a cookie sheet with foil
2. Pop the popcorn and remove any kernels
3. In a small saucepan, combine butter, brown sugar, salt and cream
4. Bring to a boil and cook for 5-7 minutes or until thickened
5. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla
6. Let cool about 10 minutes
7. Note: you may have caramel left over, store in fridge, it goes great on ice cream
8. Transfer to plastic squeeze bottle, optional
9. Pour popcorn onto cookie sheet
10. Melt chocolate chips in the microwave about 1 minute or until smooth (see note for tip)
11. Transfer chocolate to plastic squeeze bottle, optional
12. Drizzle popcorn with chocolate
13. Immediately add nuts
14. Drizzle with caramel
15. Sprinkle on Sea Salt, optional
16. Heat oven to 300 degrees and Bake for 15 minutes
17. Cool completely and break into pieces
18. Source: countryliving.com