Right here’s a copycat recipe for Australia’s (present) favorite confectionary – Golden Gaytime Popcorn! Caramel popcorn drizzled with chocolate and sprinkled with biscuits crumbs, it’s ridiculously addictive however somewhat costly. Save a fortune by making it your self!
Golden Gaytime Popcorn
Popcorn and sweet lovers alike have been in a tizzy of pleasure with Golden Gaytime Popcorn was first launched. Yours really included. The chatter between closet popcorn-loving buddies, nonetheless, shortly moved from “Far out, that is loopy good!” to “OMG are you able to consider it’s so costly”??
Named as such as a result of it’s a popcorn model of a beloved Australian’s ice cream known as Golden Gaytime, one packet of the Gaytime popcorn is $5.75 for 100g (3.5 oz). A small bag with simply 2 cups of Gaytime popcorn. I can’t afford to feed my dependancy!!
Which, in fact, result in what was affectionately dubbed The Gaytime Popcorn Challenge – a do-it-yourself model I used to be assured I may create for 80% cheaper. How’d I do? My report card is on the backside of the publish!
Retailer-bought Golden Gaytime popcorn
A fast inspection of the substances label was all I wanted to give you a copycat recipe. It’s actually simply caramel popcorn with a drizzle of chocolate and sprinkling of biscuit crumbs.
Nonetheless, my do-it-yourself Gaytime Popcorn is way extra beneficiant on the chocolate drizzling (oh, why not? 😇). And also you gained’t break the financial institution!
Hmm, I did a “sprinkling of biscuit crumbs”, didn’t I. However it seems extra like I’m assertively throwing biscuit crumbs within the photograph beneath. You need biscuit crumbs? Right here’s your biscuit crumbs!!! 😂
Elements you want
Right here’s what it is advisable make this. The primary half covers the caramel popcorn, then the second half covers the chocolate drizzle and biscuit crumbs.
Caramel popcorn substances
Right here’s what you want for the caramel popcorn:
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Corn syrup – This stabilises the caramel to make sure sugar crystallisation doesn’t happen, offers the caramel a pleasant shiny end that’s crisp somewhat than sticky. Frequent grocery merchandise within the US and Canada ! It may be bought on-line in Australia from USAFoods.com.au and Amazon.
Glucose is an ideal substitute for corn syrup which is offered in Australian supermarkets (baking aisle, clear thick syrup with honey consistency). Just a bit tougher to measure out as a result of it’s so thick. Nonetheless, the popcorn must be baked for quarter-hour longer to ensure the caramel coating dries out and turns into crisp. It’s because glucose has barely increased water content material.
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Baking soda / bi-carb – This makes the caramel coating grow to be form of foamy and enhance in quantity while you whisk it in. It helps get even protection of caramel on the popcorn. With out the baking soda, you find yourself with huge globs of caramel. It could actually’t be substituted with baking powder.
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Toffee, caramel or vanilla essence – Retailer-bought Gaytime popcorn has a stronger albeit extra synthetic caramel flavour than do-it-yourself. To duplicate this, use a caramel or toffee essence. In any other case, simply keep on with vanilla like regular caramel popcorn. It’s actually not a giant deal, the popcorn nonetheless has a beautiful caramel-y flavour.
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Brown sugar somewhat than white sugar, for higher caramel flavour.
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Butter – For flavour. Not margarine or different options. I can’t predict what that can do to the crispness of the caramel coating.
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Oil – Something impartial flavoured like vegetable, canola or peanut oil. That is for cooking the popcorn. It doesn’t work as nicely with butter (as a result of butter is ~15% water and dairy, not simply fats).
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Popping corn! It’s often offered within the potato crisps aisle in grocery shops right here in Australia.
Chocolate drizzle and biscuit crumbs
For the chocolate drizzle and biscuit crumbs, you simply want chocolate appropriate for melting and a few plain biscuits to crush up then sprinkle on the popcorn.
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Chocolate -You should utilize a mix of darkish and white chocolate, as I’ve performed (just like the store-bought Gaytime popcorn combine), or only one or the opposite.
Use a chocolate bought from the baking aisle somewhat than consuming chocolate. Baking chocolate is purpose-made for melting and cooking with, whereas consuming chocolate is definitely usually designed particularly so it doesn’t soften when heat! I usually use “melts” for melting and chocolate chips for issues like chocolate chip cookies as they’re designed to carry their form when cookies are baked.
For these of you within the US, semi-sweet chocolate chips is ideal.
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Plain biscuits – A signature a part of Golden Gaytime Popcorn is the sprinkling of crushed biscuits on the popcorn. The substances label specifies that it’s vanilla biscuits. Actually although, any plain candy biscuits will work simply high-quality!
How one can make Golden Gaytime Popcorn
Merely make caramel popcorn then end with a drizzle of chocolate and sprinkle of biscuit crumbs. It can keep crisp and recent for at the very least per week – I’m positive it’ll final for longer (caramel popcorn lasts for weeks). However each take a look at batch I made mysteriously disappeared earlier than I may end testing the shelf life!!
1. Pop popcorn
Pop your popcorn kernels utilizing your technique of alternative – range or popcorn maker, if in case you have one (I do, however for some purpose digging it out of the again of the cabinet looks like extra effort than cooking the popcorn on the range).
Right here’s the right way to prepare dinner popcorn on the range.
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Take a look at kernels – Warmth oil in a big pot over medium warmth. Add just a few items of popcorn and wait till it pops, then shortly take away.
Add remaining popcorn, elevate off range to shake and unfold corn out evenly. Cowl with a lid.
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Shake! As soon as the popcorn begins popping in earnest, shake the pot gently as soon as. Take away from warmth when the popping stops (when you’ll be able to depend to three between pops) and switch to a (very!) massive bowl.
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To make the caramel soften butter in a saucepaan over medium warmth. Add sugar, corn syrup and salt. Stir till simply mixed.
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Simmer – When it begins to bubble, simmer for 4 minutes – DO NOT STIR! This will likely trigger the sugar to crystallise so that you gained’t find yourself with a easy caramel.
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Baking soda “foamy” – Take away from warmth then shortly whisk in vanilla and baking soda. Whenever you cease whisking, the caramel will foam and enhance in quantity. That is what makes the caramel coat the popcorn evenly. With out the baking soda, you find yourself with thick heavy globs of caramel on the popcorn and it’s unimaginable to toss.
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Coat popcorn – Shortly pour the foamy caramel straight over the popcorn and toss to coat the popcorn as greatest you’ll be able to till the caramel cools and begins to harden.
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Bake for 45 minutes, tossing each 10 minutes or so. The caramel will remelt for the primary 2-3 tosses so it coats the popcorn extra evenly.
REMINDER: If utilizing glucose as a substitute of corn syrup, bake for an additional quarter-hour.
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Cool – Take away from oven, depart to chill on the tray for 20 minutes so the caramel hardens. Then break up the popcorn – no must be too pedantic, clumps are nice!
Gaytime the popcorn!
OK, so time to remodel our caramel popcorn into Gaytime Popcorn! Right here’s how:
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Bash the biscuits into crumbs both in a ziplock bag or utilizing a mortar and pestle.
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Soften the chocolate within the microwave (I take advantage of this) or bain-marie (bowl set over simmering water).
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Switch the melted chocolate right into a piping bag. This makes it simpler to get even protection and zig-zag chocolate drizzles such as you get with the shop purchased Gaytime popcorn. However for those who want, you’ll be able to simply use a spoon for drizzling.
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Prepared for drizzling!
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Drizzle the chocolate all around the popcorn in no matter sample you favor. There aren’t any guidelines! Besides – goal for even protection. No one needs to be the unfortunate one that will get a handful of chocolate-less popcorn!
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Sprinkle the popcorn with the biscuit crumbs whereas the chocolate continues to be moist. The biscuits will stick with the chocolate half solely, and it form of sticks in concentrated (albeit small) patches so you’ll be able to style it a bit higher. I most popular this technique somewhat than sprinkling it on the caramel popcorn while within the oven (the crumbs form of bought misplaced).
As soon as the chocolate units – I velocity issues up by popping the trays within the fridge for quarter-hour – it’s able to dive in!!
Storage
In concept, Gaytime Popcorn ought to keep recent and crisp so long as Caramel Popcorn which has a superb shelf lifetime of a number of weeks.
Take a look at batches made it to across the 1 week mark efficiently earlier than mysteriously disappearing. So I can’t say for positive, however I’m assured it ought to final for at the very least 2 weeks. Simply be certain it’s saved in an hermetic container in a cool and dry place. If moisture will get in and/or it’s sizzling and humid, the caramel coating will get sticky and chewy so it will get caught in your enamel.
This was a jar supposed for gifting. It by no means bought gifted. 🤭
REPORT CARD: Selfmade is 68% cheaper!!
I boldly acknowledged once I began on the Gaytime Popcorn Challenge that I believed I may make it for 80% lower than store-bought.
We’ve run the numbers and the outcomes are in.
One batch prices $8.96 to make which equates to five packets of retailer purchased Gaytime Popcorn which prices $28.75 ($5.75 per packet). That’s a 68% saving!
So, I used to be 12% off. However nonetheless. I might by no means spend $28.75 for five packets of Gaytime. However I might spend $8.96 to make a batch of this any day of the week – and twice for film evening! – Nagi x
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Golden Gaytime Popcorn – copycat recipe!
Prep: 15 minutes
Cook dinner: 55 minutes
Complete: 1 hr 5 minutes
Dessert, Candy
Western
Servings12 cups
Faucet or hover to scale
Directions
Popcorn
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Take a look at oil – Warmth oil in a big pot over medium warmth. Add just a few items of popcorn and wait till it pops, then shortly take away.
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Pop – Add remaining popcorn, elevate off range to shake and unfold corn out evenly. Cowl with a lid. As soon as the popcorn begins popping in earnest, shake the pot gently as soon as. Then crack the lid a tiny bit – let’s steam escape for crisper popcorn.
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Take away from warmth when the popping stops (when you’ll be able to depend to three between pops) and switch to a (very!) massive bowl.
Caramel:
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Preheat oven to 110°C/230°F (each fan and commonplace ovens).
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Mix – Soften butter in a saucepaan over medium warmth. Add sugar, corn syrup and salt. Stir till simply mixed.
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Simmer – When it begins to bubble, simmer for 4 minutes – DO NOT STIR!
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Baking soda “foamy” – Take away from warmth then shortly whisk in vanilla and baking soda. Whenever you cease whisking, the caramel will foam and enhance in quantity.
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Coat popcorn – Shortly pour straight over popcorn, toss till caramel cools and begins to harden.
Baking to crisp caramel coating:
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Unfold popcorn on 2 massive paper lined baking trays.
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Bake for 45 minutes, tossing each 10 minutes or so. Caramel will remelt for the primary 2-3 tosses – tossing coats popcorn extra evenly with caramel. (If utilizing glucose, bake additional quarter-hour).
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Cool – Take away from oven, depart to chill on the tray for 20 minutes. Then break up the popcorn – no must be too pedantic, clumps are nice!
Drizzle and crumbs
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Crumbs – Place biscuits in a ziplock bag and bash into crumbs.
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Soften chocolate – Place chocolate in a heatproof bowl and microwave in 30 second increments on excessive, stirring in between, till melted and easy – about 1 1/2 minutes. (If doing a small quantity of white chocolate, scale back to twenty second increments).
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Chocolate piping baggage – Switch chocolate right into a piping bag. Use scissors to snip a small opening on the tip.
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Drizzle & crumb – Push the popcorn collectively however in a single layer. Drizzle criss-cross (or any sample!) all around the popcorn. Sprinkle with biscuits crumbs whereas the chocolate is moist so it sticks.
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Fridge – Refrigerate for quarter-hour till the chocolate is type. Gently break popcorn into items. EAT!
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Retailer in an hermetic container in a cool place. Stays crisp for at the very least per week. Our take a look at batches by no means lasted any longer!
Recipe Notes:
Glucose is an ideal substitute for corn syrup which is offered in Australian supermarkets (baking aisle, clear thick syrup with honey consistency). Just a bit tougher to measure out as a result of it’s so thick. Nonetheless, the popcorn must be baked for quarter-hour longer (as a result of glucose as increased water content material).
2. Toffee or caramel essence – Retailer purchased Gaytime has a stronger albeit extra synthetic caramel flavour than do-it-yourself. To duplicate this, use a caramel or toffee essence. In any other case, simply keep on with vanilla like regular caramel popcorn!
3. Baking soda/bi-carb – This makes the caramel coating grow to be form of foamy and enhance in quantity while you whisk it in. Helps with even protection on the popcorn. With out, you find yourself with huge globs of caramel.
4. Chocolate – Retailer purchased Gaytime popcorn has ~50/50 white and darkish chocolate drizzles. And somewhat skimpy at that! This do-it-yourself model is rather more beneficiant with the chocolate.
Use any mixture of darkish and white chocolate you need. I used about 25% white chocolate and 75% darkish chocolate.
5. Biscuits – Any plain candy biscuits will work right here. Simply one thing to sprinkle on the popcorn. The Gaytime Popcorn substances simply lists “vanilla biscuits” for the crumbs used!
6. Storage – stays 100% crisp and recent at the very least 1 week, in all probability extra (caramel popcorn lasts 2 to three weeks). Make sure to hold it in an hermetic container in a cool dry place. If it’s tremendous sizzling and humid, fridge is greatest.
Vitamin per serving assuming 12 servings. It’s not weight loss plan meals!
Vitamin Info:
Serving: 46gEnergy: 339cal (17%)Carbohydrates: 47g (16%)Protein: 1g (2%)Fats: 18g (28%)Saturated Fats: 8g (50%)Polyunsaturated Fats: 2gMonounsaturated Fats: 5gTrans Fats: 0.3gLdl cholesterol: 19mg (6%)Sodium: 166mg (7%)Potassium: 101mg (3%)Fiber: 1g (4%)Sugar: 40g (44%)Vitamin A: 223IU (4%)Calcium: 34mg (3%)Iron: 0.4mg (2%)
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