Friday, May 11, 2012

CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER POPCORN

This tastes pretty darn good, awesome snack while watching a good movie.

A big bowl of air popped popcorn (10 – 12 cups)
About 4 cups of Reese’s Peanut Butter Puffs
A couple cups or so of peanuts
3 squares of white almond bark (or chocolate bark … I didn’t have any, you can use 6 oz. of white chocolate … or just use milk chocolate chips and skip the cocoa)
4 tbsp high quality cocoa powder (you might not need this if you use chocolate chip … check the taste and add cocoa till it’s chocolatey enough for you … oh but you must use really good quality cocoa, the dark colored kind)
1/2 cup peanut butter
Coarse sea salt

Pop up your popcorn, then toss it with the peanut butter puffs and the peanuts, and spread the whole lovely mess out in a thin layer on a large tray or baking pan (or two).
In a small microwaveable bowl, melt the almond bark in the microwave. (Microwave for 90 seconds, stir, then microwave for 30 seconds more, stir, keep doing this till the bark is all good and melted.)
Add the peanut butter and cocoa to the almond bark and stir until it’s all nice and smooth.
Drizzle about half the chocolatey peanut butter goodness all over your popcorn and stuff. Stir up the popcorn mixture a bit just to make sure you aren’t leaving any little kernels or nuts out of the fun, then drizzle the rest of that lovely chocolate stuff over your popcorn.
Sprinkle the whole mess with some coarse sea salt. See, now you have that sweet/salty thing going on.
Here’s the hard part: let the popcorn sit for 15 – 30 minutes until the chocolate sets. (How on earth can you leave this yumminess sit there alone for SO long? Somehow I managed …)
Break the popcorn up into pieces and enjoy! Store any leftover popcorn in an airtight container or tin.

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