Homemade Kettle Corn (Popcorn Seasoning) Recipe - The Cookie Rookie® (2024)

4.60 from 61 votes

Author: Becky – The Cookie Rookie

• ▢ ½ cup granulated sugar 100 grams
• ▢ ½ cup brown sugar 107 grams
• ▢ 3 tablespoons kosher salt 27 grams (see note)
• ▢ Prepared popcorn for serving (about 5 cups per person)

• Mix all ingredients in a medium-size mixing bowl. Prepare popcorn, place popcorn in individual bowls and sprinkle popcorn with desired amount of seasoning.

  ½ cup granulated sugar, ½ cup brown sugar, 3 tablespoons kosher salt, Prepared popcorn

• Enjoy!

This recipe makes 1¼ cups of seasoning. Use 1 tablespoon for every 5 cups of popped popcorn.

• Note:If using sea salt or any other fine salt, reduce the quantity of salt by half!
• Mix the salt and sugar so that everything is well combined and you don’t end up with lumps of sugar or salt.
• Use unsalted popcorn for the best results.
• ¼ cup of popcorn kernels yields about 7 cups of popped popcorn.
• Season the popcorn as soon as it comes out of the pot.

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All four of my grandkids absolutely loved the seasoning so I had to try it and it was delicious

I tried this recipe, and it was really good.

WAY too salty if you are using it on microwave popcorn. This might work well on raw popcorn kernels…but I suspect even then 3 TEASPOONS of salt might be better, then add a little more salt to taste. If you have a bowl of popped popcorn (10 cups or so) you only need about 3 tablespoons of seasoning. Using powdered sugar allowed it to stick better. Still wasn’t very “Kettle”. I’m going to add less salt and more brown sugar (dark) next time and adjust the leftovers.

If you have Pink Himalayan salt like me, please whatever you do, do NOT add 3 tbsp of salt. It was extremely salty. Lovely Recipe but super salty even with kosher salt. That’s even with my sodium deficiency.

I found that my usual large pot, 1/3 cup of kernels, and 2T. oil made 8 cups popped. I immediately sprayed the popped corn and shook some of this mix over the corn, tossed, and repeated. I used half of this mix on the batch, and at the end, had 6T. of the mix at the bottom of the pan. I then put that leftover mix and small popcorn debris into a strainer over a bowl, and ended with about 3 1/2T. of mixture that I’m saving to sprinkle over more corn later.
I also used only half of the salt called for, and used table salt. I thought the mixture was perfect. You couldn’t see the mix on the kernels, so I’m not bothering to post a picture, but you could taste it! Delicious!!

I spray my popcorn with no stick cooking spray before adding the seaoning. It helps it stick to the popcorn. I use table salt and use 1/2 the amount the recipe calls far. Very good popcorn.

It’s a tasty seasoning but ain’t no way this is sticking to popcorn without butter! I just tried it and the “seasoning” is in a pile at the bottom of the bowl, even after stirring/mixing with the popcorn!

I want to ship this overseas in a gift box. Will it keep during shipping, which could take 10 days?

This might be a silly question. But how much of the kernels do you use for this recipe?

This popcorn seasoning tastes amazing!! Just made it, and I love that I don’t have to wait to find kettle corn, that I can have it anytime that I want!!!! Love it!!