Chocolate Covered Popcorn (5 minutes)

Ingredients

Scroll down to the chocolate covered popcorn recipe card for the amounts of each ingredient, but here's a quick visual + description of what's in this recipe.

• Popcorn: Use yellow or white popcorn in this easy chocolate covered popcorn recipe.
• Cooking Spray: It's so easy to quickly spray your popcorn evenly. You can also use oil or butter.
• Table Salt: Table salt is nice in this recipe because it can get evenly distributed. But you can substitute kosher salt if needed.
• Chocolate Chips: Melt semi-sweet chocolate chips with oil to create a nice chocolate drizzle. You can use white, milk, and/or any other kind of chocolate chips you like.
• Neutral oil: Add just a bit of oil to your chocolate chips. It will thin the chocolate out enough to easily drizzle it over popcorn to make tasty chocolate covered popcorn.
• Kosher Salt: Add a pinch of bigger salt crystals for a salty bite on top. You don't need to add this, but it's nice.

Instructions

Scroll down to the chocolate covered popcorn recipe card for more detailed instructions. Here's a quick overview + photos to see how to make this recipe in general.

1. To start your chocolate covered popcorn, add popcorn kernels to Stasher bag or paper bag. Seal Stasher bag, leaving 1 inch open for steam to release. If using a paper bag, roll up bag and place rolled part down.

2. Microwave 2-3 minutes, or until it stops popping. Cook it similar to a microwave popcorn bag. You can remove popped popcorn as it pops to reduce burning, if needed.

3. Remove when done. Add chocolate chips and oil to small microwave safe bowl. Microwave in 30 second increments, until melted. Stir to smooth.

4. While chocolate is in the microwave, spray popcorn with cooking spray and add salt. Shake vigorously to coat all popcorn kernels. Taste test it, it should be just slightly under-salted.

5. When chocolate is melted, pour about ⅓ of popcorn into serving bowl. Then drizzle about ⅓ of chocolate.

6. Repeat. Refrigerate until chocolate hardens or eat your chocolate covered popcorn for one immediately.

Storage Tips

Store leftover chocolate covered popcorn in an airtight container for a few days. You can store it at room temperature or in the fridge. It will last longer at room temperature (not dry out as much) but the chocolate may not set if it's warm.

Store as you prefer.

Substitutions/Tips

• Use a sandwich Stasher bag or larger to pop your popcorn, or small paper bag.
• Make popcorn in air popper or Air Fryer. Use this Air Fryer Popcorn recipe.
• You can also melt 1 Tablespoon each white and dark or milk chocolate chips, with ⅛ teaspoon oil in each. Or mix them. Use what you like.
• If making a larger batch, you can spread the popcorn out on a lined baking sheet, then drizzle chocolate over it. This will help distribute the chocolate evenly on the popcorn.
• Other great add-ins: Crushed cookies, chopped nuts, white chocolate, mini chocolate chips, sprinkles, melted butterscotch chips, caramel sauce, etc are all great on chocolate covered popcorn for one.

Other great snack recipes

• Peanut Butter Chia Pudding
• Spinach Apple Banana Smoothie
• Peanut Butter and Chocolate Protein Balls
• Banana Blueberry Oatmeal Muffins
• Peanut Butter Yogurt Dip
• Blueberry Chocolate Muffins

What to do with leftover ingredients

When you're cooking for one, you often have leftover produce, cans of whatever ingredient, etc. Here are a couple ideas on how to use up the leftover ingredients. It'll help you save money by wasting fewer ingredients.

• Popcorn: Air Fryer Popcorn, M&M Popcorn
• Chocolate Chips: Small Batch Dark Chocolate Cookies, Chocolate Chip Cookie, Single Serving Cookie Dough, and Protein Granola.

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