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vegan, gluten-free, easy, snacks, sweet · July 13, 2015

PB&J Popcorn

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If you aren’t following me on Instagram you may have missed the fun popcorn talk we had a few weeks ago. Sprinkled-on seasonings, cacao-coated kernels, and decadent-sounding drizzles, you guys had some awesome flavoring ideas! All that topping talk somehow planted a PB&J idea in my head, so I created PB&J Popcorn!

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PB&J Popcorn take 1. Popcorn is not waterproof. Putting water on popcorn kills all the crunch factor…it’s pretty much like snack murder. There’s a lot of water in strawberries. There’s even more water in strawberry sauce. So the first version with a strawberry drizzle was more like PB&J collapse-corn.

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PB&J Popcorn take 2. Strawberry sauce might have been a fail, but strawberry powder was perfect! But there was another problem…do you know what else has water in it? Powdered peanut butter sauce. If you use regular peanut butter than no problemo, oil on popcorn is just fine. In fact, those overly-runny all natural peanut butters would work perfectly in this recipe. But I was determined to make the powdered stuff work…

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PB&J Popcorn take 3. PB2 is not the only powdered peanut product out there. I recently discovered Crazy Richard’s Pure PB, which happens to be unsweetened. It’s 100% peanuts, simple! And it also happened to solve my hydrophilic popcorn problem. Because you know what liquid doesn’t ruin popcorn? Maple syrup! So instead of using water to rehydrate the PB powder, I used maple syrup. If you used maple syrup with PB2 it would be TOO sweet (something I rarely say). But with the Crazy Richard’s Pure PB the sauce is sweet, drizzlable, and keeps the popcorn poppy!

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PB&J Popcorn

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  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Total Time: 10 minutes
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Ingredients

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  • 3 cups popped popcorn
  • 1–2 tbsps all natural peanut butter
  • 1/2 cup freeze dried strawberries

Instructions

  1. In a VERY dry blender, blend the freeze dried strawberries to a fine strawberry dust.
  2. If you peanut butter is not runny enough to drizzle on, then microwave it for 30 seconds to 1 minute to soften.
  3. Fill your bowl with popcorn, sprinkle on the strawberry powder, and drizzle with the peanut butter.
  4. Serve immediately.

Notes

You can use powdered peanut butter for the sauce, but you have to eat it very quickly or it will make the popcorn soggy.

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  1. Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says

    July 13, 2015 at 4:26 pm

    Omg….just stop right there…there is no need to ever make any more recipes. This one just…..it’s all we ever will need. Pure sweet-nutty-corny perfect! XOXOXO

    Reply
  2. Leah M @ love me, feed me says

    July 13, 2015 at 4:47 pm

    BRB as I run to every store to try to find freeze dried strawberries because I need this popcorn in my life.

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    • [email protected] says

      July 13, 2015 at 5:49 pm

      Hahaha!! I hope they have some! If not blueberries would be pretty spectacular too I think 🙂 Thanks Leah!

      Reply
  3. Kat from curlsnchard.com says

    July 13, 2015 at 5:11 pm

    Whaaat? 😀 Natalie, your combinations are just crazy good! I never thought about the fact that popcorn and water don’t mix, I usually just add dry spices to mine (I’m usually more a savory popcorn girl) – but this sounds awesome! I think that might be really good with the Rawmio Hazelnut Silk instead of peanut butter too 😉

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    • [email protected] says

      July 13, 2015 at 5:50 pm

      OMG Rawmio Silk on popcorn!!! 😮 Forget this entire recipe, I’m just gonna do that because it sounds like heaven! That stuff is too good <3 And those jars are too small 😉

      Reply
      • Kat from curlsnchard.com says

        July 13, 2015 at 8:12 pm

        Well, it wouldn’t be all that low in fat with the rawmio silk though! I still have some in my jar – I just put it in the fridge most of the time, helps me a bit with portion control 😀 (and I don’t see it on my counter all the time) You have caused an addiction in this house, my dear 😀

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        • [email protected] says

          July 13, 2015 at 8:27 pm

          I’m LOLing at the same time as I’m totally relating because it I’ve been there myself just about every time I buy a jar of it 😀

          Reply
  4. Melissa @ vegan does it says

    July 13, 2015 at 6:39 pm

    You are the master of kid friendly snacks! But then you already knew that 😉 This looks awesome and wouldn’t you know I have everything I need to make it.

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    • [email protected] says

      July 13, 2015 at 6:49 pm

      Hahaha 😀 The funny thing is I don’t even try to make kid-friendly snack, my mind just goes that way…or I still have the tastes of a 7 year old, which is kinda true! If only I had kids, then I could start a mommy blog and have a good reason to be making so many kid snack recipes 😀 lol And since you just coincidentally have everything on hand than maybe it was meant to snacking be!

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  5. Harriet Emily says

    July 13, 2015 at 9:25 pm

    Mmmm, what a delicious flavour combo! I’ve never tried pb + j popcorn before. What a great idea! Just my kind of snack 🙂

    ★★★★★

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    • [email protected] says

      July 13, 2015 at 9:26 pm

      Thanks Harriet! Odds are no one has ever tried PB&J popcorn before, but I’m all for exploring new snacking avenues 😉

      Reply
  6. Linda @ Veganosity says

    July 13, 2015 at 10:59 pm

    “Snack murder,” that made me laugh. 🙂 This is pure genius Natalie. I can’t wait to try this. Thanks for all of your hard work in making this amazing recipe.

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    • [email protected] says

      July 13, 2015 at 11:11 pm

      Haha 😀 Wet soggy popcorn is so sad it should be considered a crime! Thanks Linda, you’re so sweet!

      Reply
  7. The Vegan 8 says

    July 15, 2015 at 5:33 pm

    This is such an amazing idea Natalie! Seriously! And I love crumbling up those dried strawberries for garnish on desserts, what a wonderful idea to put it on popcorn….especially with maple syrup! YUM! Looks so good!

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    • [email protected] says

      July 15, 2015 at 6:00 pm

      Thank you Brandi! Oh the things you can do with freeze dried fruit 😉

      Reply
  8. Mandy says

    July 23, 2015 at 6:07 am

    OK, I gotta be honest. I was a bit skeptical about this combo despite loving every ingredient. I just couldn’t picture this turning out…until I tried it today! Oh, goodness. We couldn’t stop eating it! I need to try the powdered PB because it was bit of a challenge using regular PB, but it was DELICIOUS. SO creative, Natalie. I love how so many of your recipes are kid-friendly – Thank You!

    ★★★★★

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    • [email protected] says

      July 23, 2015 at 1:38 pm

      I’m so happy you tried it despite the skepticism! I was even second guessing myself while I was coming up with the recipe, but like you said I loved all the ingredients so it had to be good! 😉 Powdered PB might be easier since you can adjust the consistency more easily, but your PB drizzle looked so perfect <3 It was easier to tell what everything was in your pic than it is in any of mine! haha Thanks Mandy!

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  9. Kristen @ The Endless Meal says

    August 16, 2015 at 9:55 pm

    PB&J on popcorn? Brilliant!

    ★★★★★

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    • [email protected] says

      August 16, 2015 at 10:15 pm

      Lol 🙂 Thank you Kristen!

      Reply

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