St. Patrick’s Day White Chocolate Popcorn is a simple holiday treat made with popcorn, marshmallows, festive sprinkles and white chocolate. Free printable included below to turn this delicious snack into Leprechaun Bait!
St. Patrick’s is all about the green beer, YES but it is also the perfect time of year for bright creative snacks when you have young kids. Bring on all the bright green cupcakes, rainbow inspired desserts and shamrock shakes. While enjoying all the fun this holiday offers, you can also teach your children about the origin of the date as it pertains to religion and history of Ireland. Visit Wikipedia HERE as an educational source on St. Patrick’s Day so you can share the knowledge with your children.
St. Patrick’s Day White Chocolate Popcorn
St. Patrick’s Day White Chocolate Popcorn is sweet and chocolatey. Marshmallows and sprinkles add a layer of texture and fun! Each little Lucky Charms marshmallow is like finding a treasure of unicorns, rainbows, clouds, hearts and more making it a fantastic snack for kids on St. Patrick’s Day.
You may also enjoy these Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Leprechaun Bait
Leprechauns love snacks too. Create goodie bags of Leprechaun Bait using snack sized Ziploc bags and my free printable (below). Simply print out needed amount of pages, cut out each design and fold in half. Staple to the top of each St. Patrick’s Day White Chocolate Popcorn filled snack bag. Perfect for kids to share with classmates for school parties or as an after school dessert.
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St. Patrick’s Day White Chocolate Popcorn
- Prep Time: 5
- Cook Time: 5
- Total Time: 10 minutes
- Yield: 10 small servings 1x
Description
St. Patrick’s Day White Chocolate Popcorn is a simple holiday treat made with popcorn, marshmallows, festive sprinkles and white chocolate.
Ingredients
- 1 bag popcorn, popped
- 6 ounces white chocolate candy melts
- 1/3 cup sprinkles ( I did a mix of rainbow jimmies and green shamrocks)
- 1 cup marshmallows taken from box of Lucky Charms cereal
Instructions
- Pop the popcorn in the microwave according to box directions.
- Place some parchment out on a baking sheet and spread the popcorn out. Remove any kernels.
- Melt the chocolate by placing in the microwave for 1 minute. Stir and cook another 30 seconds.
- Stir the chocolate and pour over popcorn.
- This is hot so be careful! Mix the popcorn and chocolate together.
- Place the sprinkles and marshmallows on top of popcorn and mix everything together.
- Let set and serve.
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Microwave
Keywords: Dessert, holiday, St. Patricks Day, popcorn, snack, free printable
I really love this idea and the printable. I can’t wait to make! I just wish Leprechaun was spelled correctly on the printable 🙁
You are the first one to notice…darn cursive. The photos were spelled wrong but if you click the printable, it is spelled correctly so yours will be correct!
It’s like lucky charms popcorn! Love how bright and delicious this looks. the perfect way to celebrate st. pattie’s day!
Haha, that would be a great name for it.
OH MY GOD. HOW CUTE IS THIS? I’m sending this to my sister!
I love this! I want to have my kiddos make this to hand out at their park day with their friends!
Ohhh that would be so great to share!
White chocolate popcorn is my FAVE. I also love the way it looks with the Lucky Charms!
I know, makes it so bright !
I can see kids loving this! Heck, I know I would. I love Lucky Charms. I’ll have to make this with my kids.
★★★★★
It will be a fun little snack to make with the kids. Enjoy!