That happened to me when I saw this recipe for hot chocolate popcorn balls. Only, upon reading the recipe the "hot" part didn't appeal to me too much - I wasn't sure I wanted the cayenne pepper in the popcorn, yet I knew I wanted to try chocolate popcorn, especially since we'd just seen some for sale at West Side Market a week and a half ago...
After popping up a bunch of plain popcorn kernels in our popcorn popper
(I started with a cup of unpopped popcorn - that makes A LOT of popcorn!), I dumped them in a giant mixing bowl and got to work on the candy coating. As soon as I put the regular Hershey's cocoa powder in with the other ingredients I wondered what it would've been like if I had instead used the Hershey's Special Dark cocoa powder we have!? Arrrrgh!Good thing one recipe of the candy coating wasn't enough for all that popcorn! So I had to make a second batch, and as I stirred it in the popcorn I was glad I added the darker cocoa to the second batch - you could just see the difference!
Turns out this is seriously good tasting stuff! But to answer the one question I was asked a few times, yes, the popcorn DOES lose some of it's crispness in the process. When I left it out to air dry on the counter yesterday evening it seemed to crisp up, but the act of storing it in containers softens it again. I might have to see if I can't find a recipe that results in a crisper end result - like maybe with less corn syrup?
Oh, and no way was I forming a bunch of balls with this! Instead I just crumbled it up into chunks for snacking on.
3 comments:
Holy cow that looks like yummy stuff! Don't eat it all at once. Save some for after digging out after this next storm a-comin'...
That's just naughty.
It went over really well at work!
Kris - so far there's not that much snow. I wonder if we'll get hit really hard later today/tomorrow.
Finny - I think you like the naughty stuff.
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