Chocolate mania is still going on in my house. I am cleaning up all the left over chocolate from last month's marathon. Yesterday I made chocolate popcorn from Delicious Snacks cookbook. It is a perfect snack to munch on anytime of the day or when watching TV or reading a book.
Before we get to the recipe, a gentle reminder of the fund drive Siri is doing for the Vaidehi Ashram for Destitute Girls in Hyderabad. Please donate or the spread the word to help Siri in her noble cause. Fund Drive ends on Feb 25th.
Source: Delicious Snacks
Total Time: 20 – 25 minutes
Cooking Time: 5-10 minutes
Baking time: 15 minutes
Ingredients:
- 2 ½ - 3 tbsp. Oil (recipe called for sunflower but I used olive oil)
- ⅓ Popcorn Kernels
- ⅓ Brown Sugar (I used light brown sugar)
- 2 tbsp. Corn Syrup (I used lite corn syrup)
- 1 tbsp. Milk
- 2 tbsp. Butter
- ⅓ cup Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
Preparation:
- Pre-heat the oven to 300 F. By mistake I pre-heated it to 350 F.
- In a heavy bottom pan, heat oil. Add corn kernels and cover it. Shake it vigorously for about 2 minutes until popcorn is popped. I did not have a heavy button pan. Heated the oil, after adding corn kernels, reduce the heat to medium high and popped the corn for about 1:40 minutes until the sound of the corn popping reduced. Follow the instructions on the popcorn kernels packet to pop the corn.
- Once the corn is popped, transfer it to a big bowl.
- In another pan, take sliced butter, sugar, corn syrup, milk and heat it on low heat until the butter is melted. Stir constantly until butter is melted.
- Bring the mixture to a boil without stirring.
- Once it comes to a boil, let it boil for another 2 minutes.
- Remove from heat, add chocolate chips and stir the mixture until chocolate is melted.
- Pour the chocolate mixture over the pan and mix well until popcorn is well coated with chocolate.
- Spread the chocolate coated popcorn on a cookie sheet and bake in a 300F oven for 15 minutes or until the popcorn is crisp. For some reason, I set the oven to 350 F and 12 ½ minutes into baking, I realized I set the temperature wrong, 350F instead of 300F. Luckily, popcorn was crispy enough and was not over baked.
- Cool the popcorn and serve,
- Store the leftover in an air tight container.
Event Entries: Sending these to Srivalli's Chocolate Mela, Cooking with Seeds: Corn, an event started by Priya
Parita says
Feel like grabbing these right away!
Srivalli says
Usha, not sure how I missed this post!..would have tried this for the quick snack..sounds and looks so good..
Chandrani says
Chocolate popcorn looks yummy and mouthwatering.
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sayantani says
lovely idea. my son loves pop corns and this looks delish.
Lubna Karim says
Wow...love the idea...anything with chocolates makes it more yum....
anu says
Hi Usha,
Yes October month is open....
Can you please send me an email regarding ur interest in guest hosting my event to anushoj@gmail, as it will be easier to keep a track and contiue in emails.
Thanks for ur interest
padma says
Wow mouth watering........perfect snack any time for me...
Padma.
Vimitha says
Yummy popcorn... Do send this to my ongoing event.
Cham says
Ur pictures are crisp clear. Very chocolatey popcorn- love it!
Umm Mymoonah says
Yumm! Perfect to snack anytime.
Vidhya Jayadeep says
Looks absolutely delicious and perfect for teatime
Vidhya Jayadeep says
Looks absolutely delicious and perfect
Spandana says
Delicious teatime snack.. I love anything with chocolate!!
Bhagi says
Love anything chocolate Usha. Yum! Nice clicks 🙂