Campus Cooking: Peanut Butter Chocolate Popcorn Bites

Chocolate + Peanut Butter + POPCORN = love

True to my word, I tested out the "Banana Cheerio Peanut Butter Chocolate" bars with popcorn. OH MY GOODNESSES, is it AMAZING.

My description? Chocolate and Peanut Butter decided to have a baby, and they showered it with Popcorn.

The combination of the salty, buttery, chewy popcorn with the rich peanut butter and chocolate flavors, bound by the power of marshmallow, is so out of this world, it's not even funny...

This is my new favorite thing to make, because it is SO easy (no oven? Takes 10 minutes to make? WHAT?) and it is SO delicious. And pretty, to boot.

Anyways, on to the recipe!

Peanut Butter Chocolate Popcorn Bites

2 cups of marshmallows (about 5.5 oz)

1/3 cup smooth peanut butter (although crunchy could be fine, too...hmm)

2 tbs stick butter (salted! add a pinch of salt if you use unsalted)

1 "100 calorie" pack of butter popcorn (I like the Pop-Secret brand)

1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

- Grease an 8x8 square pan.

- Pop the bag of popcorn. Remove and discard the unpopped kernels. Set popcorn aside.

- Combine first 3 ingredients in a large microwaveable bowl (trust me, you really don't want the marshmallow to overflow)

- Microwave for 1 min 45 sec --> stir every 30 seconds!!

- Quickly but thoroughly mix the popcorn into the marshmallow mixture. You may have to use your hands, but be careful-it's hot!

- Quickly press, evenly, into the prepared pan.

- Top with chocolate chips, pressing them into the warm mixture and making sure it fully covers the top. Alternatively, you can melt the chips and pour it on, which might be simpler. But I like how the chips look on top (check out the pic!)

- Refrigerate until firm. Bring to room temperature again before cutting into small squares or rectangles.

- GOBBLE UP. NOM NOM NOM.

=)

I'm sure this would be even MORE awesome with the full fat, salllllllty, BUTTTTTTERY popcorn, but the size of the hundred calorie pack is what I used, so if you use the bigger size, you'll have to change the measurement of the other ingredients. Or, you can just use about 5.5 cups of popcorn.