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Jello Popcorn, the color and flavor possibilities are endless!

Jello Popcorn, the color and flavor possibilities are endless!

So, I’ve shown you Peanut Butter Popcorn, Cherry Cotton Candy Popcorn and Chocolate Popcorn.
Now it’s time for Jello Popcorn!

Jello, I love the colors Jello comes in. So bright, so cheerful, so fun.

And I was thrilled with my Jello Swirled Cupcakes and Jello Buttercream Frosting.

So why not add it to candied popcorn.


It wasn’t hard to find a recipe. Apparently it’s been around forever. Nana Jones Has been making it for over 45 years. More recently I found recipes from The Black Peppercorn, Our Best Bites, Kraft Recipes and The Baking Beauties.

All these sites say how wonderful it is. And they’re right. Hubby’s comment was “this is really sweet and addicting.”  Plus, you can use any flavor you want so the possibilities are endless.

Jello Popcorn
adapted from everyone mentioned above

Jello Popcorn

Jello Popcorn

Ingredients

  • 10 cups popped popcorn
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1 cup sugar (granulated or brown) *
  • 1/3 cup Light corn syrup
  • 1 box (4 serving) Jello of your choice**

Instructions

  1. Line a cookie sheet with wax paper, lightly spray with cooking spray and set aside.
  2. Place popcorn in a Large mixing bowl and set aside.
  3. Melt butter with sugar and Corn Syrup in a medium saucepan.
  4. Add in Jello mix.
  5. Bring to a bowl over medium heat stirring occasionally. Once boiling, continue to boil for 4-5 minutes, If using a candy thermometer, you're going for the soft ball stage, 240 degrees.
  6. Pour syrup over pop corn and toss to coat.
  7. Spread out on cookie sheet and bake in a preheated 200 degree oven for 45 minutes, stirring every 15 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool completely.

Notes

*I did the raspberry batch with brown sugar and the Berry Blue with white sugar and another with brown sugar. They tasted the same.

**The Berry Blue Jello was a beautiful blue color in both batches until baked then it turned green. Choose you color accordingly. The Raspberry stayed a wonderful bright red.

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Pour syrup over pop corn and toss to coat.

Jello Popcorn, the color and flavor possibilities are endless!
Jello Popcorn, the color and flavor possibilities are endless!
Jello Popcorn, the color and flavor possibilities are endless!

Spread out on cookie sheet and bake in a preheated 200 degree oven for 45 minutes, stirring every 15 minutes.

Jello Popcorn, the color and flavor possibilities are endless!

Remove from oven and let cool completely.

A note on the temperature, for the red Jello batch, I baked at 250 degrees,  The red stayed pretty true to color just darker. For my first batch of blue it was also at 250 and turned my popcorn from a beautiful blue to a Grinch Green. So I’ve lowered the temperature, the blue still turns green but now it’s a pretty green.

Like popcorn, check out these other yummy ways to make it!

Peanut Butter Popcorn

 
Chocolate popcorn
 
 
Candied Popcorn
 
 
Cotton Candy Popcorn

I’ll be linking up at some of these great parties!

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When I was younger, I was constantly in the kitchen helping my mom bake. It was fun getting to play with the flour and always getting to lick the spoon. I’ve always expressed an interest in baking and now I feel that it’s the right time for me to take over. I am a college student working towards a nursing degree as well as a full-time aunt to the sweetest little kids (they might pop up in some of the posts). I’ve learned most of what I know about baking and cooking from my mom, and I am continuing to self-teach through trial and error, which means plenty of sweets to be eaten. Read more...

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  3. Krista says

    I can’t wait to try this w/ my son! He will LOVE it! Thanks for sharing at Church Supper. Have a blessed week & come back soon ~EMM

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  5. Lynne @ 365 Days of Baking says

    Oh my gosh!!! All of these popcorn recipes look absolutely incredible, Joan and I can’t wait to try them! Who knew popcorn could be so versatile!
    Enjoy your Sunday, my dear! I’ll be responding to your e-mail in just a bit.

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  16. amberg says

    This was great, was looking for a recipe that was similar to the peach popcorn my mom made for us as kids. My son and I made Black Cherry for our first batch. We are going to make Rainbow today… a batch each of Cherry, peach, lemon, grape and found a new flavor Melon fusion. It’ll be a lot of popcorn, but there are lot of kids in the neighborhood that will help to devour it.

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  17. Anonymous says

    Thanks for sharing this recipe. I remember being a kid and my frirnds mom made this and she did the popcorn balls….I always wanted to make it!

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  18. Anonymous says

    Do you have a recipe for white chocolate popcorn? I can’t eat regular chocolate an I have found that white chocolate has just not melted the same for fondu and burns more easily.

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  19. Laurel says

    If you don’t bake it, it makes a great popcorn ball….I have made them for about 30 years and my kids loved it when I made them for class treats or birthday parties!

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  20. Kristen says

    Hi, I’m just stopping by to let you know that I tried your recipe, and it came out FABULOUS!!! Thank you, for sharing. It really helped me in a pinch. It came out so good I blogged about it, but I have linked back to you if that is ok.

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