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Troll Popcorn isn't ugly as the name might suggest! Instead, it's a fairytale of a treat that children of all ages will love (and perhaps your inner child most of all)! It's basically a rice cereal treat made with crunchy popcorn. The crispy corn puffs are bonded together with a sweet marshmallow mixture and sprinkled with candy-coated chocolates! The colors are perfectly whimsical and enchanting! Troll Popcorn casts a spell on your taste buds... a spell of sweetness!
Troll Popcorn isn't ugly as the name might suggest! Instead, it's a fairytale of a treat that children of all ages will love (and perhaps your inner child most of all)! It's basically a rice cereal treat made with crunchy popcorn. The crispy corn puffs are bonded together with a sweet marshmallow mixture and sprinkled with candy-coated chocolates! The colors are perfectly whimsical and enchanting! Troll Popcorn casts a spell on your taste buds... a spell of sweetness!
Ingredients
- 10 cups popcorn popped, unpopped kernels removed
- salt to taste
- 3 tablespoons salted sweet cream butter
- 3 cups mini marshmallows
- blue pretzel M&M's® to taste, can substitute color of your choice
- pink purple, and teal M&M's, to taste, can substitute color of your choice
- pink purple, and teal sprinkles, to taste, can substitute color of your choice
Directions
- Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or a silicone mat.
- In a large bowl, add the popcorn and the salt and toss to coat.
- In a medium saucepan over medium heat, melt the butter, while stirring occasionally.
- Add the mini marshmallows to the melted butter and stir to combine.
- Cook and stir the marshmallow mixture just until all of the marshmallows are melted.
- Immediately transfer the saucepan from the heat.
- Slowly pour about 1/3 of the marshmallow mixture over the popcorn and gently fold to combine.
- Continue to add the marshmallow mixture, a little at a time, to the popcorn and fold between the additions until all of the marshmallow mixture is incorporated into the popcorn.
- Pour the popcorn mixture onto the prepared cookie sheet and spread it out evenly.
- Add the pretzel M&M's, the M&M's, and the sprinkles to the warm popcorn mixture.
- Allow the popcorn mixture to cool.
- Break the popcorn mixture into pieces and serve.
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