This homemade Flavored Popcorn is an easy way to turn regular popcorn into a colorful sweet treat using Kool Aid drink mix.
You can use different Kool Aid flavors to make all kinds of fun colors and flavors of popcorn.
I love making this for holiday gatherings, parties, movie nights and more. It’s such a fun treat and you can change the colors and flavors to match just about any occasion.
Colorful Popcorn
Candy-coated popcorn that curbs your sweet cravings.
I have a few more tasty popcorn creations for you to try out below, or learn how to make microwave popcorn.
Special Ingredients
These are the ingredients that are harder to find so I thought I would share my Amazon affiliate links to them, so you are sure to have all of the ingredients you need to make your own flavored popcorn.
This is not all of the ingredients you need, just the harder to find ones.
Flavored Popcorn Ingredients
- Popcorn
- Salt
- Sugar
- Light corn syrup
- Butter
- Kool Aid unsweetened drink mix
- Baking soda
- Food coloring, if desired
Note: You can use your favorite flavor of Kool Aid to change the color or taste you are looking for. If you do not like the color, you can alter primary colors with additional food coloring.
How to Make Flavored Popcorn
The full measurements for the ingredients are in the printable recipe card at the bottom of the post.
This is a visual walk through on how to make this flavored popcorn..
Step 1: Pop the popcorn and salt if you would like. Lay it out on a baking sheet pan.
Step 2: Lay homemade popcorn out on a baking sheet.
Step 3: In a saucepan, heat the sugar, syrup and butter, stirring occasionally for 3 minutes.
Step 4: Remove pot from heat and add in the Kool-Aid and the baking soda. Mix well.
Step 5: Pour over the popcorn and bake as directed in the recipe card below.
Step 6: Once done, allow popcorn to cool!
Colored popcorn is essentially a sweet coated kettle popcorn. I used Kool-Aid to color the popcorn, and sugar and corn syrup to create the sweet glaze that goes onto the popcorn! Trust me it is a sweet treat to nibble on!
You can change the color of your popcorn by choosing different Kool-Aid mix colors. Trying different flavors of popcorn is a great way to change up the colors of your popcorn.
Allow the popcorn to cool completely, then transfer it to an airtight container or sealed bag. Store it at room temperature for up to one week.
You will turn around and bake the popcorn to create the hard-coated sugary mixture on the popcorn. Similar to caramel corn. It is worth taking the time to bake the popcorn to give it the perfect coating.
Great for movie night, holiday parties, school parties and even gifting to loved ones. The possibilities for this candy coated sugary popcorn are endless.
I have not tested freezing this candy colored popcorn, so I recommend storing it at room temperature instead.
More Popcorn Recipes
If you like this popcorn recipe, you’ll love these ones too:
- Candy Popcorn – This Candy Popcorn Recipe is inspired by the Dr. Seuss book, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish.
- Homemade Microwave Popcorn – Just two simple ingredients and none of the toxic chemical junk in the store bought versions.
Flavored Popcorn
Ingredients
- 12 cups popped popcorn about â…“ cup unpopped kernels
- Salt if desired
- 1 cup sugar
- ½ cup light corn syrup
- â…“ cup butter
- 1 envelope Kool Aid unsweetened drink mix
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- Food coloring if desired
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 225 degrees. Prepare a large, rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper spritzed with non-stick cooking spray.
- Spread popped popcorn over the baking sheet and salt, if desired.
- In a medium saucepan, combine the sugar, corn syrup, and butter. Cook over medium-high heat for 3 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Remove from heat and stir in the Kool Aid and baking soda until combined.
- Pour over the popcorn and toss the popcorn to coat.
- Bake for 40 minutes, stirring every 10 minutes.
- Allow to cool completely before breaking into pieces.
- Store in an airtight container.
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Notes
Nutrition
Nutritional information is automatically calculated with ingredients and serving size and may not be accurate. Please always double check with your own nutritional apps as well.
