Family Night Snacks

Earlier this week, we talked about having regular family nights where you have fun, spend time together and enjoy each other's company without outside distractions.  Our family nights generally consist of making pizzas and eating popcorn but there are a couple of other regulars that make a visit on Friday nights.  One of them is a really easy recipe I would like to share with you!

White chocolate popcorn.  Mmmmm.

It's really simple and the possibilities are endless!  We made this batch Valentinish (yeah, it's a word.  ok, not really). Let me show you how.

1.  Make a couple batches of popcorn (yes, you can do microwave if you want!)
2.  Get some white candy coating at the grocery store.  It is usually sold in the baking aisle near the chocolate chips.  Most places have both chocolate and vanilla.  It is sometimes called "bark".

3.  I usually do about 4 "blocks".  I don't like every piece of popcorn to be coated, I like some chocolatey pieces and some not so much.  Feel free to adjust according to your taste.

4.  Melt in the microwave for 30 seconds at a time, stir and repeat until it is fully melted.  We like to be seasonal so if we are near any holiday, we will add the appropriate food coloring (last night we did red).

5.  Pour over your popcorn and stir it up.
6.  At this point, you can get creative.  My favorite additives are m&m's (there are red, white and pink Valentine m&ms!  Just sayin'!) and broken pretzel pieces.  I also frequently use different holiday sprinkles, such as this:

They can be found in the Target dollar spot.  (Bonus!)  These were Valentine with hearts, of course.   Spread the popcorn out on a cookie sheet or 9x13 pan and  let it sit for about 10 minutes to harden up a little bit.

And voila!

A delicious special treat!  I don't make this every Friday because here's what happens...

Self-control.  It's not our strong suit.

Enjoy!
K