Coconut-Popcorn
Crunch Pie
Ingredients:
2 quarts popped popcorn, unsalted
1 can (4 ounce) flaked coconut, toasted
1 cup sugar
1 cup light corn syrup
1/2 cup butter or margarine
1/4 cup water
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 quart vanilla, spumoni or butter pecan ice cream
Sweetened fresh or defrosted frozen fruit or chocolate sauce,
if desired
1 12-inch pizza
pan.
Directions:
Mix popcorn and coconut in a large buttered bowl. Combine
sugar, syrup, butter or margarine, water and salt in saucepan.
Bring to boil over low heat, stirring until sugar dissolves.
Continue cooking until syrup reaches the hard crack stage
(290-295 degrees Fahrenheit).
Stir in vanilla.
Pour syrup in fine stream over popcorn mixture; stir until
particles are evenly coated with syrup.
Turn half of popcorn
mixture onto buttered 12-inch pizza pan; spread in thin layer
covering bottom of pan. Mark off into wedge-shaped servings.
Repeat using remaining popcorn mixture; cool.
Cover one layer
with ice cream; top with second popcorn layer. Store in freezer.
To serve, cut in wedges. Serve plain or with desired fruit
or sauce.
Yield:
12 servings.
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