Easter Popcorn Recipe: Pastel Chocolate Covered Popcorn (2024)

FAQs

How do you melt hard candy for popcorn? ›

You can just crush the candies a little bit in a small bag with a meat mallet or something hard. Put the crushed candy, butter, and salt in a microwave safe bowl, cover it, and microwave for 30 second intervals until it's all melted and smooth.

Candied popcorn typically lasts up to one week when stored at room temperature in an airtight container. But it is so delicious, it will probably disappear much faster than that!

Caramel corn or caramel popcorn (toffee popcorn in the UK) is a confection made of popcorn coated with a sugar or molasses based caramel candy shell that is normally less than 1mm thick. Typically a sugar solution or syrup is made and heated until it browns and becomes thick, producing a caramelized candy syrup.

Lucky Elephant Pink Candy Popcorn is a Canadian confection that has been on the snack food market since the 1950s. It is commonly found retailed at mom and pop grocery stores, carnivals, concession stands, arenas and neighbourhood food outlets, and more recently is being launched in major grocery outlets across Canada.

Kettle corn is a sweet variety of popcorn that is typically mixed or seasoned with a light-colored refined sugar, salt, and oil. It was traditionally made in cast iron kettles, hence the name, but in modern times other types of pots and pans are used.

Caramel, Candied & Specialty Chocolate Popcorn Flavors

Shelf life is typically 45+ days, after receipt when factoring in shipping time.

Put Skittles, butter and sugar in a saucepot on medium-high heat. Continuously stir until fully melted. Pour popcorn into pot with melted Skittles. Mix everything until popcorn well coated.

What can I add to popcorn to make it taste better? ›

You can use seasoning mixes or create your own by combining different spices. Some ideas for flavors include Classic Butter: Melted butter and a pinch of salt. Cheese Lovers: Sprinkle powdered cheddar cheese or nutritional yeast on the popcorn. Sweet & Salty: Mix caramel sauce with a dash of sea salt.

Melting hard candies in the oven or on the stovetop saves time versus making hard candy from scratch. This shortcut works well when you want to make stained glass sugar ornaments, windows for gingerbread houses, a windshield for a car cake, or to achieve the look of water.

Heat the candy corn in the oven at 300° Fahrenheit for 15 minutes, then take it out and let it cool. After 15 minutes, peel the melted candy corn off the parchment paper, or let it keep hardening into a solid sheet of candy.

Instructions. Melt Werther's Original Caramels with half and half, salt and vanilla in medium saucepan over medium heat until smooth, stirring occasionally. Serve immediately with assorted fruit, cookie, pretzels, marshmallows, nuts or cubed pound cake.