I love it is my daughter’s turn to take a snack to preschool. It gives me a good reason to come up with some fun kid friendly snacks.
A few weeks ago I found some adorable Monster face sandwich bags in the Target Dollar Spot. I snatched them up and knew I had to come up with something fun to put inside. I was stumped for a bit until the husband mentioned popcorn, and I remembered I had been wanting to try this popcorn recipe from Our Best Bites. That, my friends, is how Monster Popcorn was born.
Every time I see them, I just laugh. They are so colorful and cute. Here is the recipe for the colored jello popcorn.
Candied Jello Popcorn
Ingredients:
- 8 cups popped popcorn – approximately 1 bag of popped microwave popcorn
- 3 Tbsp Light Corn syrup
- 1/4 cup butter or margarine
- 3 oz box of Jell-o – NOT sugar free
- 1/2 cup sugar
Directions
1. In a saucepan, stir to combine the butter and corn syrup over medium heat. Once the butter is completely melted, add in the Jell-o powder and 1/2 cup sugar. Stir well to combine.
2. Turn the heat up slightly and bring the mixture to a boil. Turn to low and simmer for 5 minutes.
3. Immediately pour the jello syrup over the popcorn in a large mixing bowl. Stir to coat the popcorn.
4. Turn the popcorn onto a cookie sheet cover in parchment paper. With your stirring spoon, smooth into a single layer or popcorn.
5. Bake in a preheated 300 degree oven for 10 minutes.
6. Allow the popcorn to cool until it reaches room temperature.
7. Break into bite size pieces and enjoy!
I actually made 6 different flavors of Jello popcorn. I labeled each one in the picture, so you could see the color it turned out. Grape and watermelon were disappointing color-wise. I was hoping for a little more vibrant colors. However, watermelon was my favorite in the taste department. It tasted just like a jolly rancher.
For my photo shoot, I kept each monster bag to one flavor, however I thought it would be fun to mix them all up for the snack. Plus, that way the kids can’t fight over colors. Everybody gets some of everything.
I just love how bright and cheery it looks!
Here our the multi-color monsters all ready for preschool tomorrow!
I hope you and your ‘little monsters’ enjoy!
This looks easy enough for me to make.
Don’t know why my name didn’t come up.
Love the baggies–great treat!
What a great idea! Found you through Lil’ Luna’s Link-up Party.
oh my! those bagged popcorn make me giggle too! :>D love it!
I love jello popcorn! Thanks for the reminder. Gotta make some soon!
What a fun idea! It looks really tasty.
This is awesome! How far in advance would you think it would be safe to make these? I’m thinking about making red & blue for my daughter’s Dr. Seuss themed birthday party in Nov. Do you think I could make these the week before? Or maybe a few days before?
I love this idea, however how did you make the bags??? that is my question
I’ve never had jello on popcorn, but it looks great.
mmmm, I never knew Jello was used for the popcorn.. my sons will have fun with this!
How much does this recipe make? We only have maybe 8 kids I want to make this for so I was wondering if I should be cutting this down?
I just made this. It tastes and looks great but mine got stuck to the parchment paper after it cooled and it was hell getting it off. My husband and I had to cut it off. I got the 2nd batch off the paper before it cooled and it was fine.
This might seem like a good idea, but I’ve never seen a worse chemical soup to give to a child than this crap. Jello, margarine, corn syrup, more sugar and microwave popcorn. Even once and a while, this is crap to the extreme. WOW! lol