Chocolate-Drizzled Popcorn
Chocolate-Drizzled Popcorn
This chocolate-drizzled popcorn is easily customizable for any holiday. For Christmas, use red and green M&M's, spiced gumdrops, peppermints or your kid's favorite seasonal treat.This recipe is courtesy of West of the Loop.
Prep Time
5
minutes
Cook Time
20
minutes
Servings
3
Total time: 25 minutes
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoon vegetable or coconut oil
- 1/3 cup popcorn kernels
- 4 ounce semi-sweet chocolate
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 teaspoon salt
- assorted sweet and salty toppings, such as dried fruit, nuts, small candies, citrus zest, candied ginger, and crushed pretzel sticks
Directions
- Heat oil over medium-high heat in heavy-bottomed pot and add popcorn kernels.
- Cover pot with a lid leaving a small crack for steam to escape.
- Listen for popping and remove pot from heat as soon as popping stops or slows to a few seconds between pops. (An adult should handle this step.)
- Spread popcorn in an even layer on a foil-lined baking sheet and sprinkle with salt. Set aside.
- Melt butter and chocolate in a double-boiler set over simmering water OR a heavy-bottomed pot over a very low flame. Stir to combine. Remove from heat as soon as the chocolate is melted and watch for scorching.
- Scrape chocolate mixture into a quart-size plastic bag and squeeze the chocolate into one corner of the bag.
- Cut off the very tip of the corner of the bag containing the chocolate.
- Gently squeeze the bag to pipe the melted chocolate over the popcorn -- an older kid can do this with supervision.
- While the chocolate is still warm, sprinkle the chosen toppings over the popcorn.
- Chill the tray of popcorn in the fridge until the chocolate is set.
- If desired, gently pack the popcorn mixture into jars -- a funnel helps here -- and decorate.