white chocolate peanut butter popcorn

Have you seen the snacks baby? Gets me every time. THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE SNACKS EVER.

My mom started making this years ago and the crunchy, sweet, salty, creamy delight has always stuck with me. I'm not sure why I haven't shared more of my mom's recipes, but maybe I should do more? Because she's a bomb cook, especially when it comes to getting things done in the kitchen. I will go through 27 steps and trials and errors and my mom is like, "Here's a delicious casserole I made in 20 minutes. I picked the burned bits out of the hamburger." And it tastes amazing and hearty. My mother was notorious for burning hamburger throughout my childhood. She's easily distracted. [Just try to argue with me, Mom.]

Do you know how many heathens out there are opposed to peanut butter? MORE THAN YOU WOULD THINK. I don't know what's wrong with people.

This snack requires two bowls and the ability to microwave. The first bowl needs to be veeeeeery large. Think the giant Tupperware bowl size [at one point in my life I had this, but it's been lost in one of my many moves]. The second bowl is for microwaving purposes.

Before you get started you pop 2 bags of natural popcorn [no butter or any pizzaz, just the plain stuff], once it's popped I methodically remove it from the bags to the bowl where I will eventually be stirring everything together. The reason I methodically remove it from the bags? KERNELS. Once everything is doused in a bath of white chocolate and peanut butter you'll never know those little buggers are in there. Bite down on one and it's all downhill. Be a good friend to your teeth and pick through your popcorn. 

That's my largest soup pot full of popcorn, peanuts, rice crispies, and m&m's.

In your dedicated microwave bowl start warming your almond bark and peanut butter. I do 30 second intervals until it's all melted.

Then you just pour the chocolate mixture into the dry mixture and....mix it. Then keep mixing it. You want every little bit covered if you can get there. Spread it out on wax paper to let it cool.

Sprinkles are optional, but I have a thing for them. And I made this on Valentine's Day, so I was getting some use out of those heart sprinkles.

White Chocolate Peanut Butter Popcorn

-2 bags natural popcorn, popped

-1 1/2 pounds white almond bark

-1/2 cup peanut butter

-16 oz peanuts

-3 cups rice crispies

-2-ish cups m&m's 

In your largest bowl mix the popcorn, peanuts, rice crispies, and m&m's together. In a second bowl microwave the almond bark and peanut butter until it is combined. Coat the dry mixture with the peanut butter mixture. Spread out on wax paper to cool. Once the almond bark has hardened store in an airtight container [or ziplock bags] for up to 5 days.