Showing posts with label soldier. Show all posts
Showing posts with label soldier. Show all posts

Monday, October 5, 2009

Halloween classic treat

So today after thinking of what to make for my soldier over seas (read prior post 10/4), I decided to make popcorn balls. A classic for Halloween, right? I thought most people forget about making these yummy treats.

I have a different kind of recipe that happened by accident. One day I as making rice crispy treats for my hubby. I reached for my box of the cereal in the cupboard, only to realize that my "Hubby" had left only crumbs in the box..........yet still put it away! (Thanks Honey)
So I thought of a plan B. I had no cereal, no trail mix, no pretzels.....Nothing, except a bag of microwave popcorn.

So as you can imagine I was craving something sweet at this point! So I put 2 and 2 together added some peanut butter and voila, Popcorn balls. They were so delicious that I almost ate them all before my husband came home!

I really didn't measure anything other than eyeballing everything, I can tell you that I used one microwave bag of the popcorn, 3/4 of a bag of marshmallows, and a few table spoons of peanut butter and melted it on the stove top. I then formed them into small balls (like a base ball).

This year I am going to try and add a few candy corns to the melted mixture and hope that it turns the marshmallow an orange color (Thanks Barb for the suggestion)!

I will let you know how these turn out, I hope my soldier likes them!