Try These Recipes for National Popcorn Day!

National Popcorn Day is January 19th! worldwide

We’re celebrating with this roundup of delicious gourmet popcorn recipes your customers will devour – whether they’re looking for sweet, savory, spicy, or all of the above. Try them all and let us know which is your favorite!

Birthday Cake Popcorn

Even if it’s not their birthday, your customers will love the combination of sweet cake flavor with white chocolate drizzle and eye-catching rainbow sprinkles.

Add a little something special to your next party or event and serve up some Birthday Cake Popcorn. You can easily make this party goer favorite popcorn in a 5 gallon corn treat cooker. Recipe can be doubled for use in a 10 gallon corn treat cooker.

Ingredients

• 5 gallons of popcorn popped in white coconut oil 
• 1 package of Basic Corn Treat Mix #2096
• 4oz. of white coconut oil #2654
• 4 cups of white sugar 
• 12oz. of water
• 1 bottle of Free N Easy #2250QT
• 1/4 cup of Birthday Cake Candy Glaze #2439
• melted #5396 White Alpine Chocolate Wafers
• 1/2 cup rainbow sprinkles

Directions

• Take lid off Mark 5 Cooker Mixer 
• Turn on heat/motor switch on 
• Add the following directly to the cooker mixer
  • 4oz. of white coconut oil #2654 
  • 1 package of Basic Corn Treats Mix #2096 
  • 4 cups of white sugar 
  • 12oz. of water
• Place the lid back on the cooker mixer
• When buzzer sounds, turn heat/motor switch OFF
• Turn motor switch ON
• Take lid off the cooker mixer
• Add 1/4 cup of Birthday Cake Candy Glaze #2439
• Add the 5 gallons of popped popcorn to the cooker mixer
• Tilt Cooker to 2nd position to let popcorn mix
• Spray 10 squirts of #2250Qt
• Let popcorn mix for 1 minute inside cooker mixer or until fully coated
• Dump popcorn into cooling tray
• Cool popcorn for 10 minutes by stirring popcorn constantly
• Drizzle with melted White Alpine Chocolate Wafers
• Add 1/2 cup rainbow sprinkles
• Bag or store popcorn