Recipe: Delicious Aunt Jerry's Popcorn Balls

Aunt Jerry's Popcorn Balls.

You can have Aunt Jerry's Popcorn Balls using 6 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Aunt Jerry's Popcorn Balls

1. It’s of 1 large bowl of popped popcorn.
2. It’s 1 stick of butter.
3. You need 1 cup of sugar.
4. You need 1/3 cup of white karo syrup.
5. You need 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
6. It’s 1 of water or candy thermometer for testing soft ball stage.

Aunt Jerry's Popcorn Balls instructions

1. Boil butter, sugar, and syrup to "soft ball" stage (when you drop ? a bit into cold water and it forms a soft ball rather than dissolving).
2. Remove from heat and cool 1 minute. Add vanilla, then poor over popcorn..
3. Butter hands before making into balls. (Otherwise it will stick) Set each ball on wax paper to cool..