Festive Popcorn Trees Recipe
Festive Popcorn Trees
Spend a snowy afternoon in the kitchen with your kids. They'll love that they can decorate these popcorn trees differently and make them their own!
Ingredients
- 10 cups air-popped popcorn
- 10 oz miniature marshmallows
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tube white frosting with decorating tip
- Decorating sugar green, blue
- Assorted small colorful candies, such as sprinkles and miniature silver dragees
Instructions
- Place popcorn in large bowl.
- Place marshmallows and butter in medium saucepan over medium-lowheat. Stir until marshmallows are melted and mixture is smooth. Remove from heat.
- Stir in vanilla extract.
- Pour mixture over popcorn in bowl. Toss well to coat popcorn evenly.
- Line a baking sheet with foil.
- Spray hands with nonstick cooking spray, then scoop up about 1 cup of popcorn mixture.
- Shape mixture into a cone shape, keeping the base flat. This forms the tree.
- Sprinkle tree with decorating sugar; place tree on baking sheet.
- Continue to make the rest of the trees.
- Pipe frosting on trees to make a garland, then decorate them with colorful candies.
Notes
Serving suggestion:
- Place each tree on a sugar cookie and decorate your serving tray with shredded coconut to resemble snow.
Tips:
- It’s important that this recipe starts with unflavored white popcorn for best color and flavor.
- Make your own colored sugar by adding food coloring to sugar, stirring in a bowl or shaking vigorously in a sealed container. Add more food coloring for more intense tones.
-8 Comments-
This looks like so much fun to do with the grandkids! I love popcorn as a snack and this is something that we can all do together.
They are so cute!
Sounds so yummy!
This recipe looks delicious and so easy to make.
These look so yummy and I know my children would have fun helping me make them!
These are so cute and sound yummy .
I’ve made similar but never looked as good as yours. They look delicious!
What a great opportunity to create these festive trees with the kids. I am always looking for things to do as a family. Plus, these trees look so good to eat!!