Cupid's White Chocolate Popcorn

A great snack for Valentine’s Day

My mother-in-law always makes this delicious popcorn snack when we’re together during the holidays and we love it! I decided to make a Valentine’s Day version of it. It’s different than many of the popcorn mixes I’ve seen because peanut butter is melted into the white chocolate.

Ingredients:

2 regular-size bags of microwave popcorn, popped with unpopped kernels removed
2 cups Corn Chex cereal
2 cups Cheerios
2 cups of dry roasted peanuts, optional
1 cup m&m’s
2 tablespoons Valentine’s Day sprinkles, optional
2 12-oz. packages white chocolate candy melts
3 tablespoons peanut butter

Steps to make:

This first step takes a VERY big bowl, bigger than any I have. Mix first five ingredients in a bowl. That includes the popcorn, Corn Chex, Cheerios, peanuts, and m&m’s. Since I needed to divide this amongst two bowls, I simply put 1 bag of popcorn, 1 cup of nuts, 1 cup of Corn Chex cereal, 1 cup of Cheerios, and 1/2 cup m&m’s into each bowl. And both bowls still ended up pretty full. I also put a little bit of sprinkles into the mix as well.

Melt the white chocolate in the microwave, following instructions on the packaging. Once it starts to melt, add peanut butter and stir until smooth.

Pour the white chocolate mixture over the popcorn mixture. I like to set a little bit aside to drizzle over it once it is on the wax paper. Stir until the popcorn mixture is coated with the white chocolate mixture.

Pour onto wax paper to cool. Drizzle with remaining white chocolate, if you set some aside.

Sprinkle the Valentine’s Day sprinkles on the mix. I poured it onto the mixture when it was already on wax paper so that the red colors would be more likely to show up.