Jello Popcorn Recipe (2024)

Post author:Melissa Haines
Post published:April 10, 2016
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This jello popcorn is one of those addictive, delicious, can’t stop eating it, get it away from me, kind of snacks. It’s such an easy snack to transform into the perfect Red, White, and Blue Snack for your Patriotic Fun. Come on in and I’ll share my easy “how to” on this yummy treat with you…

Jello Popcorn

Last week, my good friend brought heaps of this jello popcorn in three different brown paper bags to the drive-in movie. It’s funny, the camping chairs almost immediately formed a perfect semi-circle right around the bags of popcorn. Yes, my chair was one of them. The fun thing is you can color it any shade of jello. Modify it for all of your different holidays, and occasions.

This fun snack is perfect for any holiday, but this time I used red and blue for a Fourth of July Snack recipe like these Patriotic Rice Krispies Popsicles. Color it orange for Halloween, and red with green for a Christmas recipe.

Jello Popcorn
Ingredients
How to make Jello Popcorn

Ingredients

popped popcorn
butter
corn syrup
light brown sugar
1small package of jello – this time we will use1 blue and 1 red – for a red, white, and blue snack

How to make Jello Popcorn

REPEAT THIS PROCESS for each color
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
In a saucepan, over medium heat…melt the butter, add corn syrup, and brown sugar. Mix together
Add the jello and stir in. Bring to a boil, then turn the heat down to a simmer for 5 minutes. Stirring occasionally
Spread the popcorn out onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper – or – a greased baking sheet
Pour one of your packages of jello mixture over the popcorn and spread it around to coat the popcorn that didn’t get some yummy jello mixture
Pop this into the oven for about 10-15 minutes
Let cool

Jello Popcorn

A delicious sweet popcorn snack

5 from 1 vote

Ingredients

FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL COLOR OF JELLO…

8 cups popped popcorn
½ cup butter 1 stick
3 T corn syrup
½ cup light brown sugar
1 small package of jello – this time we will use 1 blue and 1 red – for patriotic purposes

Instructions

REPEAT THIS PROCESS for each color
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
In a saucepan, over medium heat…melt the butter, add corn syrup, and brown sugar. Mix together
Add the jello and stir in. Bring to a boil, then turn the heat down to a simmer for 5 minutes. Stirring occasionally
Spread the popcorn out onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper – or – a greased baking sheet
Pour the one of you packages of jello mixture over the popcorn and spread around to coat the popcorn that didn’t get some yummy jello mixture
Pop this into the oven for about 10-15 minutes
Let cool

Notes

Variations

You can change this to go with any holiday or celebration just by changing the colors.
*For patriotic purposes, I also added plain white popcorn into the mix. I just used equal amounts of white, red, and blue.

nutrition facts are only an estimate

Nutrition

To make the cute little containers, just grab card stock and roll them into cone shapes. You can staple them or glue them to seal.

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