Looking for a cute and easy edible gift idea? Try this Christmas popcorn mix! Sweet, salty, and festive, this holiday popcorn snack is perfect for filling mason jars, treat bags, or snack bowls. Quick, delicious, and so fun to make!
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Christmas Popcorn Snack Mix
There’s something about December that makes even popcorn feel festive.
One minute you’re melting chocolate for “just a drizzle,” and the next you’ve covered the whole bowl in candy canes and sprinkles because… Christmas logic.
This Christmas popcorn is the kind of snack that disappears before the movie even starts…it’s sweet, salty, and a little too easy to keep eating.
It’s a yummy DIY gift for friends, neighbors, teachers, or the perfect snack for your Christmas movie night marathon.
For more edible Christmas gifts, check out this post.
Easy Christmas Snack: Ingredients for Christmas Popcorn
This quick recipe for yummy Christmas treats to eat or gift only takes 6 ingredients.
A bonus of making this Christmas popcorn is all the ingredients are fun to snack on while you are making the recipe. 😋
Here’s what you’ll need:
- popcorn (already popped)
- white candy wafers
- M&Ms (green and red)
- pretzels
- red sprinkles
- green sprinkles
Christmas Popcorn Tips & Tricks
Once your popcorn is popped, pour it onto a large baking tray.
Break up half the pretzels, then top the popcorn with the whole pretzels and pretzel pieces.
Add the Christmas M&Ms to the popcorn mix.
Melt the white chocolate or white candy melts in the microwave. Drizzle it all over the popcorn, pretzels, and M&Ms.
Before the white chocolate hardens, add the Christmas sprinkles (this Christmas tree blend is especially cute) and toss everything together so it’s all coated and sticks together.
For the white chocolatey drizzle, you have a couple options.
White candy melts will melt the best, so if you care about the perfect drizzle, use those.
I way prefer the taste of real white chocolate
If you don’t like white chocolate, you can melt milk chocolate, semi-sweet chocolate, or dark chocolate instead. All will be delicious!
Whatever type of chocolate you use, try to either get chocolate melting wafers, baking bars, or break up your favorite chocolate bar and melt that.
Chocolate chips will work in a pinch, but they have an emulsifier in them so they keep their cute shape, so they don’t melt as well.
I do enjoy talking about chocolate, but let’s get to making this Christmas popcorn now!
Christmas Popcorn
This Christmas popcorn recipe is dangerously good. Buttery popcorn, melty chocolate, and holiday sprinkles in every bite! Perfect for movie nights, Christmas parties, or DIY gifts. Warning: it’s impossible to stop at one handful.
Ingredients
- 6 cups popcorn (already popped)
- ½ cup white candy wafers or white chocolate
- ¼ cup M&Ms (green and red)
- 1.5 oz pretzels
- ½ tsp red sprinkles
- ½ tsp green sprinkles
Instructions
1. On a baking tray, lay out the popped popcorn.
2. Break up half of the pretzels and spread both the broken and whole pieces of pretzel over the popcorn.
3. Spread out the M&Ms over the popcorn.
4. Melt the candy wafers or white chocolate in the microwave in increments of 30 seconds (stirring after each time), until its melted and liquid.
5. Spread the melted chocolate or candy wafers over the popcorn mix.
6. Add the sprinkles to the popcorn mix and toss everything to make sure the ingredients stick to each other.
7. Enjoy right away, or let the chocolate cool and harden if you're going to be packaging this Christmas popcorn up for gifts.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
6Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 291Total Fat: 10gSaturated Fat: 5gTrans Fat: 1gUnsaturated Fat: 5gCholesterol: 5mgSodium: 190mgCarbohydrates: 47gFiber: 1gSugar: 28gProtein: 3g
For 15 other fun Christmas gift ideas in mason jars, check out this DIY post!
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