Cake Batter Popcorn
Our Cake Batter Popcorn is sweet, salty, full of sprinkles and it tastes just like a Birthday Cake. This yummy and colorful snack is perfect for your next family movie night.
We took the taste of a classic Birthday Cake, mixed it with our yummy sweet and salty popcorn recipe, and came up with a new Cake Batter Popcorn recipe is a celebration in and of itself. It would be a great addition to the dessert table at your next party or as a special treat for family movie night. Grab some sprinkles and let’s make a batch!
Ingredients You Will Need
Preparing the Popcorn
Step 1: You will need 10 cups of popcorn. We pop our popcorn on the stove (you can find our directions on How to Make Perfect Popcorn here) but you can use air-popped or microwave.
Step 2: After the popcorn is popped, make sure to remove all of the un-popped kernels. You don’t want to bite down on one of those!
Step 3: Once you have made the popcorn, salt it liberally. It is so nice to taste the salty popcorn with the sweet marshmallow coating. Not quite like Kettle Corn but close.
Heat Treat the Cake Mix
Step 4: The not-so-secret ingredient in our Cake Batter Popcorn is a box of Yellow Cake Mix: Note about the cake mix: If you are worried about eating the raw flour in the cake mix you can bake the 1/2 cup of cake mix in a low oven for 15 minutes. Also, you will be adding the cake mix to a very hot mixture of melted marshmallows and butter so it will get slightly cooked during that process.
Don’t Forget the Birthday Sprinkles
You will also need some pretty Birthday Cake Sprinkles which you can find in the Baking aisle in most grocery stores.
How to Prepare the Marshmallow Mixture
Step 6: To make the Marshmallow Mixture, add 3 tablespoons of butter to a medium saucepan. Melt the butter on medium heat, stirring occasionally until the butter is completely melted.
Step 7: Add 3 cups of mini marshmallows to the saucepan.
Step 8: Stir until the marshmallows are covered in butter, and then continue to stir until the marshmallows are completely melted.
Step 9: Take the marshmallow mixture off the heat as soon as the last marshmallow has melted.
Making the Cake Batter Popcorn
Step 10: Add the heat-treated Cake Mix to the Marshmallow mixture.
Step 11: Stir the marshmallow mixture until the cake mix is completely combined with the marshmallow mixture.
Step 12: Slowly pour about a third of the marshmallow mixture over the salted popcorn. Gently fold the marshmallow mixture in with the popcorn. Continue to add the marshmallow mixture a bit at a time, stirring between each addition. The popcorn should be completely covered in the warm marshmallow mixture.
Step 13: Quickly add the sprinkles to the Cake Batter Popcorn and fold while the popcorn is still warm.
Step 14: Now pour the popcorn onto a cookie sheet covered with parchment paper, foil, or a Silpat liner.
Step 15: Use the spatula to even the popcorn out on the cookie sheet. Allow the Cake Batter Popcorn to cool. Break apart into pieces and serve.
Expert Tips and FAQ’s
We make our popcorn from scratch on the stove – nothing is better than that in our opinion. You can find all the tips and tricks you need to make the perfect popcorn right here. You can also use Microwave popcorn but you should use a type that has no butter flavoring added.
The contrast of sweet and salty in this popcorn recipe is super yummy. To get that combination you should lean towards over-salting the popcorn. We try to salt the popcorn as soon as it comes out of the pan so that salt sticks to the hot popcorn.
The contrast of sweet and salty in this popcorn recipe is super yummy. To get that combination you should lean towards over-salting the popcorn. We try to salt the popcorn as soon as it comes out of the pan so that salt sticks to the hot popcorn.
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Cake Batter Popcorn
Our Cake Batter Popcorn is sweet, salty, full of sprinkles and it tastes just like a Birthday Cake. This yummy and colorful snack is perfect for family movie night.
Ingredients
- 10 cups of Popped Popcorn (Salted)
- 3 tablespoons Butter (Sweet Cream, Salted)
- 3 cups Mini Marshmallows
- 1/4 cup Birthday Cake Sprinkles
- 1/2 cup Yellow Cake Mix
Instructions
- Pop 10 cups of popcorn and salt liberally and place in a large bowl.
- Melt 3 tablespoons of butter in a medium sauce pan. Once the butter is melted, add 3 cups of mini marshmallows. Stir until the marshmallows are melted. Turn off the heat as soon as the last marshmallow has melted.
- Add the 1/2 cup of Yellow Cake Mix to the marshmallow mixture.
- Slowly pour the marshmallow mixture over the popcorn in the bowl and stir until most of the kernels are covered in mixture.
- Mix the 1/4 cup of Sprinkles into the popcorn mixture.
- Pour the marshmallow popcorn onto a prepared cookie sheet.
- Allow the popcorn to cool. Break apart into pieces and serve.
Notes
Heat Treating the Cake Mix
If you are worried about eating the raw flour in the cake mix you can bake the 1/2 cup of cake mix in a low oven for 15 minutes. Also, you will be adding the cake mix to a very hot mixture of melted marshmallows and butter so it will get slightly cooked during that process.
Did you Make this Recipe? Leave a review below, then snap a picture and tag @twosisterscrafting on Instagram so we can see it!
