This is actually a St. Patty's Day popcorn ball recipe, but I'm not much on St. Patty's Day, so I'm dubbing it Al Gore Popcorn. Get it? It's green. I know. I'm being corny. Ha! I'm just killing myself here. I've read two different recipes for this. I'll give you the first one...
Ingredients
1 cup sugar1/2 cup light corn syrup
1/3 cup unsalted butter, plus extra for coating bowl and hands
1 tablespoon water
Pinch of salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon green food coloring, optional
9 cups prepared popcorn
2 cups green M&M’S® Brand Milk Chocolate or Peanut Chocolate Candies
1 cup mini marshmallows
Candy thermometer
2 quarts heavy bottom pot
Wooden spoon or spatula
Large pot
Waxed or parchment paper
Cookie sheet
Cellophane (optional)
Directions
1. In a saucepan over medium heat, combine sugar, corn syrup, butter, water and salt. Stir constantly until mixture comes to a boil. Continue cooking without stirring for another 10 minutes, or until the syrup reaches the hard-crack stage—300ºF on a candy thermometer. Immediately remove from heat, add vanilla extract and food coloring and mix well.
2. In a large greased pot, combine popped popcorn with syrup, stirring constantly with a spatula or wooden spoon until completely coated. Stir in M&M’S® Brand Chocolate Candies and marshmallows. Once mixture is cool enough to handle, coat hands with butter and form 3-inch balls. Place on tray lined with either wax or parchment paper until ready to serve, or, wrap in cellophane.
1. In a saucepan over medium heat, combine sugar, corn syrup, butter, water and salt. Stir constantly until mixture comes to a boil. Continue cooking without stirring for another 10 minutes, or until the syrup reaches the hard-crack stage—300ºF on a candy thermometer. Immediately remove from heat, add vanilla extract and food coloring and mix well.
2. In a large greased pot, combine popped popcorn with syrup, stirring constantly with a spatula or wooden spoon until completely coated. Stir in M&M’S® Brand Chocolate Candies and marshmallows. Once mixture is cool enough to handle, coat hands with butter and form 3-inch balls. Place on tray lined with either wax or parchment paper until ready to serve, or, wrap in cellophane.
But, that sounds like a lot of work. So, I'm giving you this second option.
Now, I'm beseeching you to please make this and tell me how scrumptious is tastes. I'll live vicariously through someone else who's not subsisting on protein shakes, yogurt, grapefruit, cans of tuna and carrot sticks.
1 comment:
Sorry....not a popcorn kind of person!! Sounds atrocious!!
And as soon as we get moved in (today) and settled (hopefully by the weekend) I'll be back to healthier eating. For now, I'm just doing the best I can....Great at work...and then dinner goes downhill....what can you do?
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