Reviewed: Dec. 18, 2007

These are great, not too sweet cuz i love sweet. These were easy i did not have a candy thermometer so i did as the poster said with the waterbath. Also to anyone that wants to know how much popcorn is needed to make 5 quarts you will need to measure your kernals right in between 2/3 and 1 cup on a measuring cup. (4 quarts is 2/3 cup and 6 quarts is 1 cup)

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tonit22

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Reviewed: Dec. 16, 2007

awesome recipe, really easy for a first time candy cook. :D

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Reviewed: Dec. 11, 2007

These are always excellent!!! I use 3 bags of microwave popcorn and wait just long enough after completely the cooking process for the sugar to cool enough to keep from burning and they roll up perfectly well. I do NOT wait until the hard crack stage, as I wanted popcorn balls which are not difficult to eat. Another thing... I do not cook past the soft butter yellow coloring...once it starts to turn clear, then beginning browning, it's well past the point of it staying soft for popcorn balls. Everyone loves, loves, LOVES this recipe. :o)

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Reviewed: Dec. 7, 2007

One thing just made another batch i used 2-1/2 bags of microwave popcorn this time but after reading the reviews some asked how many cups is 5 qts. i would say 12 but the way i measured it was using my kool-aid pitcher and i used 2 1/2 of those since i know it is 2 qts. and i made roughly 14 balls each time. The bag of popcorn each bag was 5 cups popped popcorn.

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Pam

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Reviewed: Nov. 10, 2007

I made these for halloween this year and they were very good. not enough candy for all popcorn, so I made an extra batch and colored it blood red and pored over the balls I already had balled up for a bloody effect and poured the rest into the corn w/ no candy. Good. the second batch I added salt and more vanilla and to me it tasted like worthers original candy(my fav) so I'm gonna try again just for candy

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Reviewed: Nov. 8, 2007

these are very good!! i made them at halloween for the kids party. everyone loved them but i did not go all the way to the hard crack stage i went just below it and they turned out great it was more chewy than crunchy. i am going to try the crunchy ones as well.

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Reviewed: Nov. 7, 2007

This was very sweet. I had a hard time figuring out how much 5 quarts of popcorn was unpopped. (I didn't have microwave popcorn, so I couldn't use others' reviews of how much.) I found one person had said that they used 1/2 cup of kernals, so that is what I used. I didn't have near enough popcorn. Next time I make it I will try at least 1 cup un-popped kernals.

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Reviewed: Nov. 1, 2007

These came out o.k. but my problem was that the balls didn't get evenly enough coated with the glaze. Someone suggested to use 5 bags of popcorn & that was too much. I'd start with 3 bags & add 4 if it needs more. Also, the balls set up so fast that I would highly recommend having another person helping shape balls because the time before set-up is so limited. I took another persons suggestion & shaped them in the sink which worked great. I also took another persons suggestion & made jack-o-lanterns out of them by adding orange food coloring, tying them with green pipecleaners, an drawing faces on the wrappers. They were cute, but a little tough to draw faces because of the bumpiness. Finally, i didn't have a candy thermometer, so I used ANOTHER persons suggestion & used the ice water method to test the glaze and that worked greaT!!!!

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Reviewed: Oct. 31, 2007

I made these yesturday and this morning have had 4 for breakfast! I wanted a more carmely popcorn ball but these are really addictive,chewy and good! I used 4 bags of microwave popcorn and the liquid covered just perfectly and coated great. I followed recipe exact and I would give these 5 but the amount this makes just has to be off. I ended up with 30 huge size popcorn balls. 10 would have been more like it since the kids thought they were too sticky to eat except my 2 year old and I'm eating them like crazy. I'd make again but I would definately 1/2 the recipe or wait to take to some event not just for 4 boys.

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Reviewed: Oct. 28, 2007

These are wonderful and easy to make. If the popcorn balls didn't stick together or were mushy as some of you are saying,maybe the sugar mixture wasn't up to the right temperature. They turned out perfectly for us.

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Reviewed: Oct. 27, 2007

i was worried because they looked a little darker in the photo, but they turned out great! using plastic bags on my hands instead of buttering them worked very well. I also recommend forming them into balls as quickly as possible. They were much more pliable, were able to be smushed together, and held their form. I took them to a Halloween party and they were a huge success! I used non-dairy margarine in place of the butter with no problems. Unpopped, I used 1 cup of corn kernels, but could probably have done another quarter of a cup with the amount of syrup I had.

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Reviewed: Oct. 24, 2007

My kids wanted popcorn balls that they saw the the store, so I decided to make them while they were at school. I made them when the caramel was still a little soft, they seemed to stick together very well. I did not have enough corn syrup to make them so I found a substiution for it... for 1 cup of corn syrup use 1/4 Cup water and 1 Cup sugar. They loved them, especially my picky one who doesn't like popcorn. Now I have to make them for his Halloween party at school.

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Reviewed: Oct. 17, 2007

I have used the butter microwave popcorn about 5 bags. It is best if you put the popcorn in the micowave until the popcorn kernels pop until there is a 1-2-3 second delay of popping time space of time and take it out. I've made these many times and they are the best you can get. I use rubber gloves but I also butter the gloves and the spoon with a little butter. Not so sticky,and it works for me. They are worth it!

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Reviewed: Oct. 7, 2007

These popcorn balls taste just like a gourmet popcorn shop from back home. They really taste rich and buttery! We must have popped too much corn, because ours weren't covered as much as the photo. Does anyone know how many cups of unpopped kernels makes 5 quarts popped?

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Reviewed: Feb. 13, 2006

I think your grandpa and my 92 year old grandma knew each other. She makes these every Christmas, two separate batches, one with green food color, and the other red. My 46 year old husband and 39 year old sister fight like kids over them every year!

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Reviewed: Jan. 3, 2006

The popcorn balls never became balls. I could not get them to stick together, and it was mushy.

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Reviewed: Dec. 13, 2005

The flavor of these is quite nice, however, I would reduce the cooking stage a bit if you are wanting softer popcorn balls. I got something more like candy popcorn, sort of Poppycock or Crunch in munch, without the nuts. It was still delicious, though! You may want to try this recipe a few times, as the firmness of a popcorn ball is a personal preference.

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Reviewed: Dec. 10, 2005

My husband and I have burns on our hands from making the ball shapes... and I have a bowl that is virtually useless now because of the caked on carmel... but those things are absolutely worth it! I will definitely make these again - probably this week!

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Reviewed: Dec. 9, 2005

Very disappointed. I followed the recipe to the T and still they didn't turn out like I thought they would. The mixture tasted good but too hard to work with. The popcorn ball wasn't soft like I thought it should be.

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Reviewed: Oct. 30, 2005

We loved this recipe. I made a few batches for my preschooler to take to his Halloween party. We wrapped them in cellophane and tied them up with green pipe cleaners. I then attatched a green tag cut like a leaf saying Happy Halloween from my son. Next we curled up the pipe cleaners on a pencil to resemble a vine. Finally, we took a sharpie marker and made a jack-o-lantern face. These were so fun!!!!!

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