The last few holiday seasons, my mother has talked about making large batches of chocolate drizzled popcorn to give away as visiting teaching treats, for neighbors, or just to people she thinks are wonderful. I've sampled it, and while it's okay, I'm just not a chocolate person, even when it's on popcorn. BUT...I bought a couple of bars of peppermint bark a few days ago when I was wandering the Dollar Tree...I figured I could try making popcorn with it. It is AMAZING!
I melted 2 bars in a double boiler (about 9 oz total) and gradually drizzled it over freshly popped corn (old maids removed). When it seemed evenly distributed, I would drizzle more, that way it worked out that I didn't have big chunks of peppermint bark in there. I ended up doing 20 cups of popcorn to the 9 oz of peppermint bark. If you were doing white or milk/dark chocolate I'm guessing you'd want more. The flavor of the peppermint is a strong one so it went a long way. It was lightly coated, but I loved it! In fact, I went back to Dollar Tree today and got 20 more bars so I can do this for our wonderful people around here...it's FAR faster than baking bread or cookies.
If you try it, let me know what you think!
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