Thursday, March 24, 2011

Peanut Butter Popcorn.


Prepare yourself. From this moment on, all other plain ordinary popcorn will taste like sawdust next to this.

Cue the heavenly white lights and singing angels. Peanut. Butter. Popcorn. This recipe has been in my Cut-Out-And-Keep cookbook since 2008 and it still wows people. To give credit where credit is due, you may find it
here over at Apartment Therapy's The Kitchn. (Which if you don't already follow those 2 blogs, quickly add them to your Blog Reader, and pretend like you've been following them for years with the rest of the internet. Go on.)

Peanut Butter Popcorn
Ingredients:
1/4 cup popcorn kernels
Vegetable oil
Fine salt
1/2 cup honey
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
1/2 teaspoon vanilla


Pop your popcorn and fish out any kernels that didn't pop so you don't injure yourself later. Lightly salt. On the stovetop, combine the sugar and honey and cook until it starts to boil. Let it boil for just a couple of minutes. Pull off the heat and add the peanut butter and vanilla. Pour the mixture over the popcorn to coat it.

The texture is like peanut butter fudge goes to the movies. Some of the time I'll add more popcorn to the mixture to thin it out. Other times, I'll follow the recipe and just let it be decacent.


Oh and a quick tip: For super easy microwave popcorn, I use Alton Brown's way of popping it in the microwave in a brown paper bag, minus the seasoning for this recipe though.

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