I make caramel corn often. Normally the last step is to bake the caramel coated popcorn in the oven. Now I am trying to make candy coated (watermelon) popcorn using Lorann's Oil. The recipe says that once I coat the popcorn with the mixture that I just lay it out to dry. Can that be right? It seems like I would need to bake it to get the crunchiness. If you make candy coated popcorn, please let me know. Thanks in advance.

Did you already make them? How did they turn out?

I made it last night. It turned out great and I didn't have to bake it like caramel corn to get the crunchy texture. Here's the recipe that I used"
https://www.lorannoils.com/p-8761-candy-coated-popcorn.aspx