Blueprints & Baking: Reese's White Chocolate Popcorn

Happy Halloween!

For the past several years, I've had this obsession with making white chocolate popcorn. It is delicious, super easy and there are tons of variations.

This Halloween we are going with white chocolate popcorn drizzled in dark chocolate with Reese's Pieces sprinkled throughout.

Super healthy, I know.

The hardest part of making this snack - dodging my dogs as they were dancing around the kitchen and hoping that I would drop something. They are huge fans of popcorn. They are NOT huge fans of Halloween costumes, just in case you were wondering.

Yep - I'm that pet parent. Their shame is well worth my entertainment.

If you have twenty minutes to spare this holiday season, you can put together this delicious snack with three or four ingredients that you probably already have in your pantry. And there really isn't any "cooking" involved. Unless you count melting chocolate chips in the microwave as cooking.

You will need:

1 bag of popcorn
1 1/2 cups white chocolate chips
1/2 cup dark chocolate chips
1 cup Reese's Pieces

To start, pop a bag of popcorn (or you can be fancy and make it the old-fashioned way, but I don't have the patience for that mess). Make sure that you get all of the unpopped kernels out of the bowl.

Next, melt the white chocolate chips by placing them in a microwave safe bowl and heating for 15-second intervals until fully melted.

Pour the melted chocolate over your bowl of popcorn, and mix together with a large plastic spoon. You may need to coat the spoon in non-stick spray, as this does tend to get rice-krispy-treat messy. Throw in as many Reese's Pieces as you feel necessary (roughly a cup did it for me), and spread out onto a cookie sheet covered in wax paper.

If you want to add a little more pizzazz (and I always do), melt dark chocolate chips in a microwave safe bowl in 15-second intervals until melted. Take a fork and drizzle the melted chocolate over the popcorn. Your finished product should look something like this:

Now it just needs to set. You can leave it out for around 15 minutes, or place it in the fridge if you want it to harden a bit faster. Just break it into pieces, place in a bowl and munch away!