Birthday Cake Popcorn

Yup, no baking. Just a really fun and delicious snack that you could sneak into a movie theater if you didn't want to pay their ridiculous popcorn prices share with everyone at a movie night! I was blog reading yesterday and found this blog, which has a lot of really fun and creative recipes. It was here that I found this awesome-ness. I changed it up a little bit, partly because I didn't really read her recipe, just the ingredients and I had no idea what I was doing.

My melted white chocolate seized because I added the cake mix to it, so I tried adding milk and honey to un- seize it. It worked, kinda. It worked in my favor because I decided to add this to the popcorn anyway. I mixed it up with the popcorn and it turned into little balls of cake flavored white chocolate (yum!) I then poured the mixture onto wax paper sprinkled with M&M's and sprinkles. Then I drizzled a new batch of melted white chocolate over the whole mixture. Swirled it around a bit to get everything stuck together. Allowed it to firm up for and hour or so, then ate it.

Yesterday RJ and I decided to watch Dexter, have you seen it? If you haven't I would recommend it. The humor is twisted (obviously he's a serial killer) but the juxtapositions crack me up. We started watching the TV-DVD's this past weekend so we just started season 2 and so far so good.

I like to have a small snack when watching movies, so I thought this recipe would be acceptable. Not time consuming and a lot of fun. I bet this would be a fun dish to bring to a kids birthday party. But maybe you don't bring dishes to a party, I don't know. I don't have children, maybe the host parent would appreciate it. But then again I don't know. I'm going to stop talking about kids.

Here's the recipe.

1 Bag Kettle Corn, (you could use whatever flavor popcorn you like here.)
1 C. melted white chocolate
2-3 Tbs Cake mix  (I used funfetti)
1 C  M&M's
2-3 Tbs. Sprinkles

Pop your popcorn in the microwave. Remove all un-popped kernels and any burnt ones if you cooked your corn too long. Pour into a large air tight container with cake mix and shake it up. Hopefully the butter on the corn will still be sticky enough for the mix to stick.
Sprinkle in your M&M's and sprinkles.
Melt your chocolate in 30 second intervals or over a double boiler.
Once completely melted pour over popcorn mix. With a wooden spoon, mix everything together. Pour onto wax paper and allow everything to cool and set up. Once cool, feel free to eat as much as you want.

This recipe is sweet so you probably won't be stuffing your face, but if you do, I won't judge.

Piece!