Easy Christmas popcorn recipe
During the holidays one of my favorite holiday snacks is Christmas popcorn. This Christmas popcorn recipe is a festive holiday treat and easy to prepare.
The holiday popcorn recipe is a great combination of sweet and savory tastes which makes for holiday parties or a family snack during a Christmas movie night.
The M&Ms and red and green festive sprinkles mixed into a popcorn mixture makes for a chocolate-coated salty popcorn delicious treat.
What you need:
Popcorn – Make fresh popcorn at home, it’s inexpensive, fresh and better to use. You can air pop, stove pop or microwave pop.
Vanilla candy melts – Wilton candy melts are perfect for this recipe, white chocolate bark will work too.
Pretzels – You can use tiny pretzels or regular sized that you break up into smaller pieces.
Red and green M&M’s candies – Holiday M&Ms come in red and green. If you celebrate Hanukkah, there are blue and white holiday M&Ms you can buy.
Christmas sprinkles – red and green sprinkles
How to make festive Christmas popcorn
Start off with a batch of homemade popcorn. You can use an air popper, pop them on the stove or microwave popcorn.
Pour into a large bowl and remove any un-popped kernels.
Toss in broken pretzel pieces and M&Ms. Set some aside to sprinkle on at the end.
Melt candy melts in a microwave safe bowl on 50% power in 30 second intervals, stirring after each interval until melted and smooth.
Drizzle half of the melted chips over the popcorn mixture, then stir, tossing gently a few times with a spatula.
Then drizzle the remaining half of the melted chips over the popcorn.
Gently stir the mixture until evenly coated.
Pour mixture into a single layer onto a parchment paper-lined cookie sheet. Sprinkle entire mixture evenly with sprinkles before the vanilla chips set.
Allow to cool and harden, then gently break into pieces and store in an airtight container.
Christmas popcorn
This Christmas Popcorn recipe is festive and easy to prepare. A sweet and savory holiday popcorn snack mix, perfect for Christmas parties.
Ingredients
- 6 cups microwave popcorn (already popped)
- 1 cup white candy melts
- 1 bag Holiday M&Ms (green and red)
- 1 cup of pretzels
- red sprinkles
- green sprinkles
Instructions
- Start off with a batch of homemade popcorn. You can use an air popper, pop then on the stove or microwave popcorn.
- Pour into a large bowl and remove any un-popped kernels.
- Toss in broken pretzel pieces and M&Ms. Set some aside to sprinkle on at the end.
- Melt candy melts in a microwave-safe bowl on 50% power in 30 second intervals, stirring after each interval until melted and smooth.
- Drizzle half of the melted chips over the popcorn mixture, then stir, tossing gently a few times with a spatula.
- Then drizzle the remaining half of the melted chips over the popcorn.
- Gently stir the mixture until evenly coated
- Pour mixture into a single layer onto parchment paper lined cookie sheet. Sprinkle the entire mixture evenly with sprinkles before the chocolate melts set.
- Allow to cool and harden, then gently break into pieces and store in an airtight container.
Notes
You could also try different flavored candy melts such as mint or peppermint.
Tips and variations
- You could also try different flavored candy melts such as mint or peppermint.
- For best results, eat within a few days as popcorn tends to go stale.
- Try different festive sweets such as crushed candy canes or marshmallows.
- This is easily customizable for other holidays just swap out with other colors of seasonal M&M’s and sprinkles.
Wrap up
This Christmas popcorn snack mix is one of those things your kids will love to help with. They can add the candy, pretzels and sprinkles,
The salty and sweet treat is perfect for the holiday season. It can be changed up for each season because specialty M&Ms come for each including Valentine’s Day, St. Patricks’s Day and Easter.
Santa munch Christmas popcorn is fun and festive popcorn snack mix that everyone would love. This super easy popcorn snack mix comes together in five minutes. It’s so easy that kids can make it with your assistance!
