Hot Chocolate Popcorn is a delicious sweet and salty snack recipe. Popcorn has never been so much fun to munch on! Plus, it’s super easy to make with just 5 ingredients.
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Let’s talk about gym etiquette. Now that I am all exercisey and work-outy I have discovered that there is kind of a gym hierarchy.
Apparently spending too much time on a single machine makes people angry.
Apparently setting up your “station” in an exercise class too close to someone else elicits dirty looks like you wouldn’t believe.
Apparently working out with the free weights gives all meat-heads in the vicinity a free pass to ogle you.
And apparently if you see someone using a piece of exercise equipment in the wrong way you shouldn’t correct them, you are just supposed to laugh and point…
You know how I know that? Yeah, that was me, trying to use abdominal machine as a quad exercise. Not embarrassing at all. Yeah, some gym people aren’t so nice.
Let me share a recent encounter with you…My friend talked me into taking a Pilates class. Pilates isn’t my thing, as I am a major weakling. BUT I begrudgingly agreed.
Half way through the class we had to do this ridiculous move that required my legs to be in the air while also trying to lift my shoulders and back off the ground all while squeezing a ball in between my calves…so yeah, it wasn’t pretty. I started laughing, like snort-laughing because I couldn’t seem to hoist myself into the correct Pilates positioning. Well, APPARENTLY laughing in Pilates is frowned upon because the woman on the mat next to me sat up and said to me…and I quote…”I bet if I dangled a Milky Way in front of you, you would be able to get off the ground”.
Let that marinate for a beat.
She actually said those words to me. I cannot make this stuff up.
I was stunned into silence, only later wishing that I told her that I am more of a Snickers girl.
My friend heard the whole encounter. So, yeah…no laughing in Pilates, it’s all very serious. Lesson learned.
Since Pilates doesn’t want to be my friend I will drown my sorrows in popcorn, which is a very inclusive snack. Popcorn will not make fun of you. Popcorn will not ask you to do crazy-bendy-stretches. Popcorn will not make my elbows shake in weak peril.
And you can dress up popcorn however you like and it doesn’t ever seem to mind. So take that mean-Pilates-lady.
See? I clothed my popcorn in hot chocolatey goodness and it didn’t insult me.
Hot Chocolate Popcorn
How to Make the Perfect Popcorn
Pop some corn and sprinkle some marshmallows on top.
Then melt some white candy melting disks or almond bark…
Drizzle the melted candy on top of the popcorn and marshmallows and stir it up to coat evenly.
Spread the mixture on a wax paper lined counter and sprinkle some hot chocolate mix all over, BEFORE the candy coating has set.
The hot chocolate powder will stick to the candy coating.
Then get you some milk chocolate. Oh yeah.Melt it and drizzle it all over the top of the popcorn. It just keeps getting better!
Let the chocolate set up and you’re done!
Hot Chocolate Popcorn
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Total Time: 15 minutes
- Yield: 18 cups 1x
- Category: Popcorn
- Method: Air Popper
- Cuisine: Dessert
Description
Hot Chocolate Popcorn is a delicious sweet and salty snack recipe. Popcorn has never been so much fun to munch on! Plus, it’s super easy to make with just 5 ingredients.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup unpopped popcorn (about 16 cups popped)
- 14 ounces white candy melting disks or vanilla almond bark
- 2 cups mini marshmallows
- 1/2 cup Hot Chocolate (powder) mix
- 4 ounces milk chocolate
Instructions
- Make your popcorn using an air popper. (If you don’t have an air-popper and use microwave popcorn, use plain or lightly buttered/salted.)
- In a large bowl combine your popcorn and marshmallows.
- Melt you white candy melts according to package directions and drizzle on top of popcorn/marshmallow mix. Stir to coat evenly.
- Spread your popcorn on a wax paper lined counter. Immediately sprinkle your hot chocolate mix on top of wet popcorn.
- Melt your milk chocolate in the double boiler or microwave and drizzle on top of popcorn.
- Let chocolate set.
Notes
Store in an airtight container for up to 3 days.
Nutrition
- Serving Size:
- Calories: 31
- Sugar: 4.6 g
- Sodium: 13.1 mg
- Fat: 0.5 g
- Trans Fat:
- Carbohydrates: 6.1 g
- Protein: 0.6 g
- Cholesterol: 1.1 mg
Crazy people are everywhere. Crazy, mean people are everywhere.
Maybe they just need Hot Chocolate Popcorn and they’ll be all nice and stuff?
Oh my gosh! I can’t believe someone was that rude! You should have considered throwing the ball that you were trying to hold between your calves right at her face… and maybe kicked her, or at least stepped on her hand on the way out of class. You know, just to make it fair for how inappropriate SHE was… yeah I spend too much time with kids (one starts the fight, the other ends the fight, its fair)
PS this popcorn looks AMAZE.
I definitely cant handle the gym… that’s why I don’t go haha 🙂
I LOVE different flavors of popcorn and this looks fabulous! Yum!!!
I made the Snickers popcorn and my niece sold it at a fundraiser. It sold out quickly. I’ll be trying this recipe out tonight. My husband needs something to take to his office holiday party.
What?! Are you serious? She said that?! What the heck is wrong with people. And that is why I prefer to workout in the insult-free zone called my house. Some people need a muzzle.
omg you poor thing!! That’s insane!! what a bitch!!! I would have broken into hysterics on the spot!!!
That’s terrible! I’ve never had that happen to me, but that’s what keeps me from exercising in public. I got a gym membership once and would go crazy early during the summer to avoid as many people as possible 🙂 I’m not the most confident exerciser, I probably would have put on a brave face but then run away! You’re my hero
So can’t wait to try this popcorn!!
I’m one of those people when I laugh really hard I can’t stop so I probably would have laughed even harder when she said that…all the while wishing I could speak so I could ask her if thats how she learned to do it…
I’ve been working up the nerve to take a class at my gym. The thing holding me back wasn’t mean people, just not being able to keep up but now… However, I might not have to worry as my brother takes the class I’m planning on taking and the first time he went he was wearing tight shorts (his wife and I have tried very hard to convince him not to wear those but I think he convinced himself…) there were jumping jacks involved, everthing was fine until he looked in the mirror…no one made any nasty comments and they are still friendly to him 🙂 I haven’t heard any comments about the creepy tight shorts guy so they must be pretty tolerant in that class.
CANNOT believe someone would actually say that in Pilates class!! Go back and eat this yumminess in front of her face! 🙂
I laughed so hard at your “Apparently…” gym list. It’s all so true and I always stress at the gym because I feel like I am doing everything wrong. Clearly I have given away the fact that I don’t go often…haha.
Anyways, having this hot chocolate popcorn will make it all better… 🙂