Double Chocolate Sweet and Salty Popcorn

Try This Recipe—If You Dare

by: Karen Humphrey
Chocolate Popcorn Recipe

Dress up plain popcorn with a little bit of sugar and cocoa with a hint of nutmeg, and then add chocolate chips? Are you kidding? Take salt and sweet to the next level by throwing in some chopped peanuts too, if you dare. Warning: This popcorn is highly addictive.

These Caramel Chocolate Dipped Pretzels Are Addictive Too

Ingredients:

plain popped popcorn
salted butter, melted
chocolate chips
chopped peanuts
1/2 cup granulated sugar (try substituting vanilla sugar!)
1 1/2 tsp  unsweetened cocoa
1 1/2 Tbsp nutmeg

  In a small bowl, stir together the sugar and nutmeg. Sift the cocoa into it so there aren't any lumps. Set aside.

  Using a large bowl, toss the popcorn with some butter. You don't want too much, but you want it to be coated enough that some of the topping will stick. Sprinkle some of the chocolate topping over and continue to toss. When you serve, throw a handful of chocolate chips, and a handful of peanuts into the bowl and toss a bit.

  Leftover chocolate topping can be put into a jar with a lid and saved for another day.

Adapted from Chef Michael Smith

  Variations:

Cinnamon Toast Popcorn Recipe
Spiced Southwest Popcorn Recipe

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Karen Humphrey

She may go by the name Scatteredmom online, but Karen really is anything but scattered when it comes to the kitchen.  Churning out tasty treats within view of the Georgia Strait on Canada's west coast, Karen will hand you an organized weekly meal plan or teach you how to make meals from scratch.  As Mom to a teenage boy, she knows exactly what it takes to keep kids full and happy-which has really come in handy with her job as the Food Editor at Yummy Mummy Club.

A strong supporter of Food Revolution who has been endorsed by Jamie Oliver himself, by day Karen can be found working as a special education teaching assistant, running a kitchen and showing teenagers how to cook nutritious meals for themselves.  By night, when she's not chatting on Twitter and answering cooking questions,  she writes her popular blog Notes From the Cookie Jar, or posting mouthwatering recipes over at Chasing Tomatoes.  Not afraid to give her opinion and passionate about community, Karen spoke at Blissdom Canada 2010 and her writing has been published in Canadian Living magazine, as well as in various online publications. 

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