This Snickers Popcorn is our favorite movie night snack!
This past weekend my husband and I went to the movies.
What is so brilliant about this is there was no animation.
Adult actors actually performing, not just lending their voice to a cartoon bird.
A movie where I didn’t have to wear 3D glasses.
A movie where Ryan Gosling gratuitously goes shirtless.
A movie where I didn’t have to worry about Icees spilling or popcorn sharing.
It was nice.
But while distracted by all the Gosling abs I unconsciously consumed about a week’s worth of calories that a bag of movie theater popcorn contains.
I am convinced that the nasty fake butter drizzle that goes on top is the devil’s nectar.
Like the popcorn doesn’t have enough calories and saturated fat by itself I make the solid choice to drizzle more cellulite juice on top.
I blame Gosling. He and his 6 pack made my mind all screwy.
I left the movie, not with a stronger resolve to do more sit ups…no, of course that’s not what I did.
I made the very rational decision to one up the popcorn situation…I had done my research in good will and felt obligated to help the world, not with my chiseled abs, but with a perfected popcorn.
Choose your battles, folks.
Snickers Popcorn
First you need to pop your corn. I use an air popper.
Then you need to make your caramel.
Butter + Brown Sugar + Corn syrup = Delicious
Boil it for 5 minutes…no scary candy thermometer involved. Rejoice!
Then make your popcorn happy…
Transfer it onto some wax paper and sprinkles with your peanuts and make sure all your corn is coated.
Now bake it up for a little over an hour at 200°
Giving it a nice stir every 15 minutes.
While the popcorn is baking get out your Snickers. I used 30 “Fun Size” Snickers…but honestly you can use however many you want. The more the merrier.
Give ’em a coarse chopping.
When the popcorn is done add in your Snickers and stir them in evenly.
Pop the popcorn back in the oven for 3 minutes just enough time to melt the Snickers to the popcorn.
Transfer the popcorn back to the wax paper and spread out to cool…and you could stop here. I wouldn’t be mad.
But if you WANT, you could drizzle some melted chocolate on top.
It makes the popcorn happy…trust me.
Let the chocolate set..if you are able to show restraint…or eat it warm, really it’s fine.
When it’s set serve it up with a side of Gosling.
Snickers Popcorn
Ingredients
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- Recipe: Snickers Popcorn
- 8 quarts air popped corn (about 2 cups of kernels)
- 1 cup salted butter
- 2 cups light brown sugar, packed
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup light corn syrup
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup salted peanuts
- 30 “Fun Size” Snickers bars coarsely chopped
- 3 oz melted semi sweet chocolate (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 200°
- Over medium heat boil butter, brown sugar, salt and corn syrup for 5 minutes.
- Remove from heat and stir in your baking soda.
- Pour over your popcorn and stir to coat evenly.
- Transfer to waxed paper lined counter and sprinkle peanuts on top. Stir until all is coated evenly.
- Transfer popcorn into a large roasting pan and bake for 1 hour 15 minutes, stirring every 15 minutes.
- Remove from oven and stir in your coarsely chopped Snickers. Return to oven for 3 more minutes so the Snickers begin to melt slightly into the popcorn.
- Remove from pan and transfer popcorn back to wax paper to cool.
- Drizzle melted chocolate on top of popcorn if desired.
- Let set and store in an airtight container.
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OMG!!! i tried this yesterday and i must say this was AMAZING!!!! thank u sooo much
OMG!!! i tried it yesterday and it was AMAZING!!!! thank you so much!!!
Hello . This recipe looks so yummy. I saw it on Pinterest and I was immediately intrigued. Question though: I have seen cocoa drizzled kettlecorn in the stores. Could I use that instead of making my own popcorn , then drizzling it with the extra chocolate? Or would it be too sweet? I cant wait to make this 🙂
That would work, sure! The caramel corn is sweet, so the kettle corn won’t be too sweet at all, I don’t imagine!
This looks soooooo good. I am getting the ingredients today! My son is on the Navy and I am always looking for treats to send to him. This is perfect!
going to try this but without the melted butter and going to cut some snickers then microwave it so its melted on top of the popcorn then cut more and place them on top
Just wanted to give you the heads up that this blog has this recipe and your photos: http://www.recipesquickneasy.com/category/desserts/page/2/
Thanks! I actually just saw that on Pinterest, so I clicked back through and saw it there. I left a comment asking for them to remove the recipe, so we’ll see!
Um, I’m pretty sure if we knew each other in person we would be friends! I love everything about this post….especially the recipe. And how grateful you were to finally be at a movie without the kids! It’s the little things.!. 🙂
Shelly, This looks delicious. Snickers are my very favorite candy. Do you have any idea how long this popcorn can be stored before it gets uncrunchy? I was thinking that the extra baking in this recipe might help keep it crisp. I bought fresh caramel popcorn recently(in Chicago) and it got soft in two days, but caramel popcorn is sold in bags at the supermarket, so there has to be a trick. I would like to make this and send what I don’t eat to my son in college. Thanks!
I think it would keep pretty week for about 5 days to a week…I know what you mean with the chewy…I think they have magic crispy fairies in the bagged popcorn they sell at the supermarket 🙂
Oooo, I need some of those. Where can I buy (or ensnare) some crispy fairies? 😉 Until then, I will try the fairy-free version. This looks perfect for exam week munches. Thanks!
Hello,
I make homemade poppycock but I Have a difficult time getting the loose kernels out before coating. Do u have suggestions on this?