Happy St. Patty's Day-Celebrate with a Green Popcorn Cake! 3/17

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

as with any holiday we try and celebrate with a color matching popcorn cake

-our shamrock pan is m.i.a. so we improvised

you can use cookie cutters/cake pan/mold of any sort

just add in food coloring to the marshmellows to make some festive fun

Hint: pam cooking spray is your friend!

I spray everything I use when making these popcorn cakes

Popcorn Cake

Ingredients

2-bags of Microwave Popcorn

2-10.5 oz bags of mini marshmellows

2 tsp. vanilla

Food Coloring

1/2 stick of butter

1 cup of peanuts-salted or unsalted

1 cup of m&ms

(some people do gum drops-I don't care for the texture)

Cake Pan

(you can use cookie cutters-just place mixture in large baking pan and use cookie cutter to cut out shapes)

Directions:

Pop 2 bags of microwave popcorn and remove all the old maids-set aside

(I usually use low fat or fat free popcorn so it doesn't get so soggy)

Spray bowl first-Combine 1/2 Stick Butter melted together in Large bowl with 2 tsp vanilla

Place 2- 10.5oz bags of mini marshmellows into the large bowl with the butter and vanilla

Microwave and stir until melted together-usually about 2 minutes stopping to stir often

Stir in Food coloring of your choice

Add marshmellow mixture to the popcorn in a large bowl-Stir together
Add in 1 cup peanuts, 1 cup m&ms

place mixture in your sprayed pan of choice and pack down with a spatula

many times I will split the batch in half and put in 2 separte pans

fits well in a 8X11 pan if your doing 1 big batch

get creative and make some fun festive shapes

-let the kids decorate individual ones with sprinkles and frosting

Here is a picture of some we made at Valentine's Day

Enjoy-this Sweet & Salty Treat is Sure to Please:))

***be sure and store in an air tight container as the marshmellows will get hard and dry out
-that is if there are any leftovers-lol...

Luv these popcorn cakes-reminds me of my younger days when my mom use to make them and send them to my roommates and I at college-always was a good sign seeing the Fedex Guy come to our aparment!