Best Popcorn Snack Mix Recipes

SWEET AND CRUNCHY POPCORN SNACK MIX

Steps:

• Line a large baking sheet with waxed paper.
• Combine crispy corn and rice cereal, honey graham cereal, peanut butter corn puff cereal, popcorn, chocolate pieces, and peanuts in a large bowl.
• Melt butter in a large saucepan over medium heat; whisk in flour until smooth, 2 to 3 minutes. Add brown sugar and corn syrup; bring to a boil, stirring occasionally, until sugar is dissolved, about 1 minute. Stir peanut butter into sugar mixture until creamy, about 3 minutes; pour over cereal mixture and gently toss until coated.
• Spread cereal mixture over prepared baking sheet and allow to cool, about 30 minutes. Once cooled, break mixture into chunks and store in an airtight container.

POPCORN SNACK MIX

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine popcorn, peanuts, pretzels and crackers. Combine remaining ingredients. Pour over popcorn mixture; toss to coat. Place in two ungreased 15x10x1-in. baking pans., Bake, uncovered, at 250° for 1 hour; stir every 15 minutes. Store in an airtight container.

CHINESE POPCORN SNACK MIX

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 250 degrees F (120 degrees C). Line a large baking sheet with aluminum foil or parchment paper.
• Combine popcorn, chow mein noodles, and peanuts in a large bowl.
• Whisk butter, soy sauce, lime juice, sesame oil, Sriracha, and ginger together in a small bowl. Drizzle the butter mixture over the popcorn, tossing to evenly coat. Distribute evenly on the prepared baking sheet.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 30 minutes, stirring halfway through. Remove baking sheet from oven. Set aside to cool before storing in an airtight container.

ASHLEY AND WHITNEY'S POPCORN AND PRETZEL SWEET SNACK MIX

Steps:

• Line a 15 1/2x10x1-inch baking pan or large tray with a sheet of Reynolds® Parchment Paper; set aside.
• Pop popcorn according to package directions; shake bag so that unpopped kernels fall to the bottom.
• Pour popcorn, pretzels, almonds and dried cranberries into large bowl. Discard unpopped popcorn kernels.
• Melt white morsels according to package directions. Stir in cinnamon; pour over popcorn and pretzels. Toss to evenly coat.
• Spread evenly on parchment lined tray. Let set to harden, about 1 hour. Break apart large pieces. Store in airtight container.

S'MORES POPCORN SNACK MIX

Steps:

• Line 2 large rimmed pans with cooking parchment paper. Divide popcorn, granola bar pieces and marshmallows between pans. Spread evenly.
• In small microwavable bowl, microwave chocolate chips uncovered on High 1 minute; stir. Heat another 15 to 30 seconds on High; stir until smooth and fully melted. Spoon and drizzle melted chocolate evenly over popcorn mixture.
• Refrigerate mixture on pans 20 to 30 minutes or until chocolate is set. Break into pieces; toss to combine.

SWEET POPCORN SNACK MIX

Steps:

• Place popcorn in a large bowl. Combine cinnamon-sugar and cocoa; sprinkle over popcorn and toss to coat. Stir in graham snacks, pretzels and M&M's. Store in an airtight container.

GLAZED CINNAMON AND POPCORN SNACK MIX

Steps:

• Heat oven to 325°F. Line 15x10x1-inch pan with cooking parchment paper.
• In large bowl, mix cereal, popcorn and almonds. In small bowl, mix melted butter and honey; pour over cereal mixture. Toss to coat well. Spread in pan.
• Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until mixture is starting to brown, stirring once halfway through bake time. Pour mixture onto waxed paper; cool 15 minutes. Break up; store in airtight container.

POPCORN SNACK MIX (NO NUTS)

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients and serve.

HARVEST POPCORN SNACK MIX

Steps:

• Heat oven to 300ºF.
• Combine first 3 ingredients in large bowl.
• Cook butter, half-and-half and corn syrup in saucepan on medium heat until butter is melted and mixture is well blended, stirring frequently.
• Add sugar and dry gelatin mix; cook and stir 2 min. Bring to boil, stirring constantly; simmer on medium-low heat 5 min., stirring frequently. Pour over popcorn mixture; toss until evenly coated.
• Spread onto 2 foil-covered rimmed baking sheets sprayed with cooking spray.
• Bake 10 min.; cool completely. Add candy corn; mix lightly.
• Microwave chocolate in microwaveable bowl on HIGH 30 to 60 sec., stirring every 30 sec.; drizzle over popcorn mixture. Let stand until chocolate is firm.
• Break popcorn mixture into bite-size pieces; place in large bowl.

HONEY-SESAME POPCORN SNACK MIX RECIPE - (4/5)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300°F. Combine popcorn, cereal, pretzels and nuts in large bowl. Stir together honey, Fleischmann's and sesame seeds in small bowl. Pour over popcorn mixture. Stir well to coat all pieces. Pour into 15 by 10 inch shallow baking pan. Bake 30 minutes, stirring once after 15 minutes. Transfer to waxed paper to cool. Stir before serving to break up clumps. Store remaining mix in tightly sealed container up to 1 week.

TROPICAL POPCORN SNACK MIX

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 300 degrees.
• First pop the 1/2 cup unpopped corn kernels, then set aside.
• In a heavy saucepan, put the butter, corn syrup, cream of coconut, and brown sugar. Boil over moderate heat for 2 minutes, stirring constantly.
• Combine the popcorn, coconut, dates, dried pineapples and dried banana chips in a large plastic bowl sprayed with non-stick spray. (That works best-the plastic bowl, as the syrup will not stick to the sides if you spray it first, making it easier to combine the ingredients.).
• Stir to mix and pour onto a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper and bake for 30 minutes.

PUMPKIN SEED POPCORN SNACK MIX

Steps:

• Heat oven to 250°F. Spray 17x12-inch half-sheet pan with cooking spray. In large bowl, mix popcorn and pumpkin seeds; set aside.
• In 2-quart saucepan, melt butter over medium-low heat; stir in brown sugar and corn syrup. Heat to boiling over medium heat; boil 2 minutes. Stir in chili powder, salt, cumin, cinnamon and red pepper. Pour over popcorn mixture; stir to coat completely. Spread mixture in pan.
• Bake uncovered 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. Cool completely in pan on cooling rack.

UNICORN POPCORN SNACK MIX

Steps:

• Melt white chocolate and then divide into bowls and color with assorted food coloring, leaving some white. Alternatively, use previously colored meltable wafers, as well as white.
• Scoop popped kettle corn into a small bowl and drizzle on a liberal amount of melted white chocolate. Shake/stir the popcorn to distribute over all the kernels.
• Add caramel bugles and, optionally, colored or white marshmallows.
• Drizzle a rainbow of the other melted chocolate colors all over the top of the popcorn.
• Shake on a variety of sprinkles (we used pink pearls, pastel rainbow flowers, pink sugar, and silver and gold stars).
• Optional: drizzle some sparkle gel and edible glitter.