Christmas Popcorn Mix

I love to give handmade gifts, but often run out of time in the holiday season. Giving food gifts is a wonderful way to give inexpensive handmade gifts with much less time investment – you can easily make bulk items that you can give to many people in no more time than it takes to make one gift.

This year I made a homemade popcorn mix to give our neighbors, the mailman, the milkman, teachers at my son’s school and other friends. It is ridiculously addictive and super easy to make in a big batch.

Chocolate Peanut Butter Pretzel Popcorn
Ingredients:
1-1/2 Cups Popcorn Kernels (yields about 9 cups popped)
2-16 oz packages of white chocolate chips melted
1/2 cup peanut butter chips
1/2 cup dark chocolate chips (or bar chocolate – I used TJ’s)
Salt
Pretzels
Holiday M&Ms (I used a bag of peanut butter and a bag of pretzel)

Directions:
1. Pop your popcorn. Did you know you can make popcorn in the microwave with just a brown paper lunch bag? SO EASY! I don’t have a popper, so I used these instructions and made three batches.
2. Spread the popcorn out on baking sheets. Salt the popcorn and sprinkle the pretzels in.



3. Melt the white chocolate chips in the microwave or a double boiler.
4. Drizzle the white chocolate over the popcorn pretzel mix. Toss if needed to get even coverage.
5. Sprinkle the M&Ms over the white chocolate covered mixture.



6. Melt the peanut butter and chocolate chips together in the microwave or double boiler.
7. Drizzle melted peanut butter/chocolate mixture over the popcorn mix.



8. Let air dry and portion out into your container of choice!



Instead of just giving them in little baggies or plastic wrap, I used these cute little peppermint striped gabled boxes at Target. They are so cute and have little plastic windows to give a peek at the yummy contents. And the best part? They are from the Dollar Spot!


I tied them closed with some pre-printed ribbon I purchased from Pick Your Plum – no gift tag needed. Of course we may have taste tested a little bit too!


This made about 12-15 sandwich bags worth of goodies. If you want to give larger batches than these little boxes would fill, check out this cute bag from It Is What It Is.



Beth has this adorable subway print as a free download, which she also cut down to put on the front of a simple paper lunch sack. So cute!

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