This sweet and salty harvest popcorn snack mix is your next must-have for fall and Halloween movies. Homemade caramel popcorn is baked and cooled before being tossed with candy corn, salty pretzels, and a variety of chocolate candies.
Ingredients in Harvest Popcorn Snack Mix
- Homemade caramel popcorn - The recipe for this caramel corn is easy to follow and doesn't take very long to make.
- Rolos - A share size bag is perfect.
- Candy corn - I like to use the Autumn Mix that has the pumpkins as well as the caramel corns.
- Pretzel Snaps - swap these out for your favorite pretzel shape.
- M&M's - for this recipe I used M&M Cocoa Crisp but milk chocolate, caramel, and peanut are good options as well.
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How to Make Caramel Corn
It's easy to make homemade caramel corn and it takes a small amount of hands-on time. Only five ingredients are needed to make a homemade caramel sauce that is made on the stovetop and then drizzled onto the popped popcorn.
Simply melt the butter, add the sugar and corn syrup, and then stir in the vanilla and top with the sea salt. Seriously, it's that simple.
For the full easy to follow recipe, click here. For this harvest popcorn recipe, omit the chocolate coating!
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Holiday Popcorn Snack Mixes
It's easy to get creative with popcorn during the holidays. This Harvest Popcorn Snack Mix is great for all of Autumn but there are other versions that are more fitting for the occasion.
Halloween Popcorn Balls are a fun treat for the Halloween season as is this loved recipe for Sweet & Salty Halloween Snack Mix made with Rice Krispy treats and Bugles.
During the Christmas season, this White Chocolate Peppermint Popcorn is made by drizzling peppermint-flavored white chocolate onto the popcorn and topping it off with festive sprinkles.
📖 Recipe
Harvest Popcorn Snack Mix
Equipment
Ingredients
- 10 cups Caramel Popcorn
- 10 oz Rolos
- 8 oz M&M Cocoa Crisp candies
- 11 oz Candy Corn Autumn Mix
- 2 cups Pretzel Snaps
Instructions
- Prepare the caramel corn according to the directions in the link of the ingredients. Omit the chocolate coating.
- Break apart the cooled caramel corn and add to a large bowl.
- Toss together with the M&M's, Rolos, candy corn, and the pretzels and mix it into the caramel corn.
- Store in an air tight container and eat within a week for maximum crunchiness of the popcorn.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutritional information is an estimate based on third-party calculations. Actual values may vary due to ingredients, measurements, and serving sizes.
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Gloria says
What a fun treat of Halloween. We are spending the day with the grandkids. I think we will make this together and enjoy a movie.
Claudia Lamascolo says
This is such a fun snack especially for sports season like football we always have popcorn and this is a nice mix and change
Natalie says
What a lovely fall-inspired snack idea. I'm going to make this for my son. We have a movie night planned this weekend. This will be the perfect snack for him.
Julie says
This is such a great snack for fall. I love how festive it is and how cute it looks!
Melanie says
OMG this is too cute, my kids will love it! I'll make it for Halloween night so we can snack on it while counting the candies ahah!
Liz says
This is so cute! What a fun treat!