Chocolate Drizzled Caramel Popcorn

This is what I made for neighbor/friend gifts this year. It's cheap and you can make alot of it at once. I made 5 batches of this recipe.

Chocolate Drizzled Caramel Popcorn
Ingredients
• 1 cup butter
• 2 cups brown sugar
• 1/2 cup corn syrup
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 5 quarts popped popcorn (1 c. unpopped)

Preheat oven to 250 degrees F. Place popcorn in a very large bowl.
In a medium saucepan over medium heat, melt butter. Stir in brown sugar, corn syrup and salt. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Boil without stirring 4 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in soda and vanilla. Pour in a thin stream over popcorn, stirring to coat.
Place in two large shallow baking dishes and bake in preheated oven, stirring every 15 minutes, for 45 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool completely. Drizzle chocolate over cooled popcorn and let set.

*Add 1 t. to your chocolate chips when you melt them. You can also add nuts, candy, pretzels or anything else you want to the popcorn.