Butter (two sticks!!), creamy caramels, Corn Pops cereal and butterscotch chips all come together to form a rich and decadent no bake cereal treat. And this is a recipe re-do! From an OLD post of mine that you probably have never even seen (circa October 2016). So I took my original recipe for these Caramel Corn Pops Bars and changed it a little, to make them even BETTER! And took pictures that aren’t quite so laughable.
I think every blogger has those first blog posts that they go back to and look at and kind of laugh….the poor picture quality and other mistakes that are made in the beginning days of blogging. This is only my second year of blogging, but I have learned so much. So rather than deleting the old Caramel Corn Pop Bars recipe post, I decided to just re-do it! Because it’s always good to remember where you started from. And some of y’all may even prefer the old recipe better?? Make both and let me know!
To change the recipe up a little, I added less cereal and added butterscotch chips into them. The new recipe kind of reminded me of caramel corn…mmmmmm. These Corn Pops Bars would make for a quick and easy holiday dessert too!
You can use the individually wrapped Kraft Caramel Squares, or if you are lucky, you can find these Kraft Caramel Bits. No unwrapping 10,000 caramels! Yay! But both work the same.
Caramel Butterscotch Corn Pops Bars
Print RecipeIngredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter
- 1 (11-ounce) bag Kraft Caramel bits or squares
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract (I used Rodelle Baker's Extract)
- 1/2 cup butterscotch chips
- pinch of salt
- 6 cups Corn Pops Cereal
Instructions
Line a 13x9-inch baking pan with foil and spray with baking spray. Set aside. Unwrap all of your caramels (if using the caramel squares and not the bits).
In a large pot on the stovetop over medium high heat, place the butter and the entire bag of caramel bits or unwrapped caramel squares, into the pot. Heat the mixture, stirring occasionally, until butter is incorporated into the caramels and the mixture is smooth.
Remove from the stovetop and stir in the vanilla extract, butterscotch chips and salt. Stir in the 6 cups Corn Pops cereal. Pour the mixture into your prepared pan and gently push the mixture evenly into the pan.
Let cool completely before cutting into desired squares.
SO TELL ME….
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Are you going to take the Corn Pops bars challenge?! Make this recipe and the original one and YOU tell me which one you liked best!
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Should I re-do anymore recipes from the blog??
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Do any of you ever go back and look at the first blog posts here on Kelly Lynn’s Sweets and Treats??
LEAVE ME COMMENT BELOW!
XOXO,
Kelly
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11 Comments
Maria Doss
November 27, 2018 at 12:23 PMI love the way you started the post with 2 sticks of butter:) Anything that begins with 2 sticks of butter has got to be good!!! This is such a lovely holiday gift/snack and corn pops being one of my kids favorite cereal, this is gonna be our favorite too.
Amy
November 27, 2018 at 1:24 PMYour pictures are always so good that I had to go back and check out your old blog post. Your new pictures are actually better. It is fun to see the improvement in such a short time, isn’t it? I do like the butterscotch chips added in. These sound delicious.
Kelsie | the itsy-bitsy kitchen
November 27, 2018 at 5:11 PMUMMMM where have these been all my life? I’m going into a sugar coma just looking at the pics and I’m totally not mad about it :). I love caramel and butterscotch together!
Judy
November 27, 2018 at 5:50 PMKelly got to try these they look so good I like Caramel and butter scotch together
Kelly
December 12, 2018 at 9:07 AMThanks Judy!! I hope you make these easy (((and YUMMY!!))) treats!! XOXO
Ashika I Gardening Foodie
November 28, 2018 at 10:14 AMKelly these look just so yum, I loooove caramel and butterscotch and in these bars, just perfect. It will make delicious little gifts too, might be a bit too difficult share though because I will keep them all to myself 😋
Abbe@This is How I Cook
November 28, 2018 at 7:06 PMI love corn pops and it’s been a long time since I’ve had some! Can’t wait to try them. So glad you redid this recipe. What a pain but I think it’s worth it!
GiGi Eats Celebrities
November 28, 2018 at 9:05 PMI remember the CORN POP commercials but I have to admit, I have NEVER had Corn Pops before in my life. But hot damn, if I could, I would devour the CRAP out of them – especially in THISSSSSSS recipe!
loveatfirstbento
December 11, 2018 at 7:59 PMOmggggg how on earth did you manage to make Corn Pops even better than it already is??? Cereal bars are a serious weakness of mine, and I am always on the lookout for new ones to try – this one is definitely going at the top of my list!
Sara
October 26, 2019 at 1:33 PMIs this supposed to have 2 sticks of butter or 2 cups? It was really hard to get the Carmel and 2 cups to mix together.
Kelly
October 28, 2019 at 6:09 AMHi Sara! I am so sorry….the recipe is supposed to have one cup of butter (2 sticks). I just fixed the recipe. It does take some stirring to get the caramel to incorporate into the caramel. Aghhh. So sorry for my error when writing the recipe.