Hi You're in Steve's kitchen and today we are making chocolate popcorn now when
somebody asked me to make chocolate popcorn
you can be sure that in Steve's Kitchen we're not going to be dusting that thing
over
with a bit of Cocoa we're going to be making Real chocolate popcorn
now in order to do that you've got to look at the way the manufacturers make
their bulk popcorn and I've scaled this down so we can make
superb chocolate popcorn at home let me show you how
we're going to need
some air popcorn so I'm just going to take a quarter of a cup
of popping corn into a sandwich bag just
fold over the top like so and we pop that
in the microwave for three minutes or until the popping has stopped
now whilst the popcorn is popping in the microwave we need to get and melt down two
fifty grams about
8 ounces of melting chocolate this won't work with chocolate chips
you can either melt this in the microwave or do as I'm going to do
pop it on the stove on a double boiler until it's lovely and silky
so for me that was two and a half minutes and that's given this beautiful
air-popped popcorn and then just let this cool down while we melt
our chocolate now the next stage we've got our chocolate over here and it's melted
it doesn't have to be
perfectly melted down but as long as it's reasonably runny
what you want to do is put that molten chocolate on top of your popcorn
and then what we going to do is start to coat
the chocolate over the popcorn now just keep being patient and stirring till
you've got a lovely
even coating and sort of fold the popcorn because we don't want to break
it up into small pieces
now when you've started to get a reasonably even coat on your popcorn
like that what you going to do is just leave this on the countertop
and let it cool just a little bit it's too hot at the moment
now we're not going to let this set completely we're just letting it cool down
and then you're going to want some
drinking chocolate not Cocoa here this is a regular drinking chocolate
and I'm going to be sprinkling it over the top when it is the right temperature
now if you want to check that of course you can just pull out a little bit
of popcorn and give it a try
lovely another great little tip here if you want
at the moment you can add in peanuts and other delicious things to go with this
but just
come down here a moment we've got our chocolate coated popcorn
it's a little uneven I've got some drinking chocolate and I'm going to sprinkle
some over the top and then we're going to use the drinking chocolate
to add more solids it'll also add extra chocolatey
flavor
now that is starting to look just fantastic
but I want to actually let this cool down almost completely now
before we coat it again with drinking chocolate give it a final stir
now I did successfully make this actually in a stand mixer with the dough
hook on it
it does tend to break the popcorn up a bit small so this way i think is better
come back down here now at the moment we've still got this sort of clump mess and it
is starting to cool down let's pop a little bit more drinking chocolate
over the top and then just keep stirring this in until they start to
break apart and become individual pieces of popcorn again
so you just want some patience you can see that is starting to come together
every now and again you might want to just get your hands in and break open
some of the larger ones or perhaps like me you like the clumps of popcorn and
chocolate
now this is still a little bit warm so we want it to completely cool down
now whether you decided to use nuts or fruit
in with that you decide but I'm going to bag this up and show you what it looks
like
so come and take a look at that chocolate
coated popcorn absolutely delicious now I made this the other day and I put
almonds in with it as well if you want to experiment please comment down below
and let me know please share the love give it the thumbs up
and let's give this a try the problem with this
is just can't stop eating it
so this is not one for the waistline but you are going to enjoy it
that tastes as good as anything you can buy in the shop it is
absolutely fantastic don't forget now I've given you most of the tools you need
to make
almost any popcorn we're slowly coming toward the end of this series
I hope you've enjoyed it comments down below take care and I'll see you in the next
video
be good now seriously the problem with this popcorn is once I start eating
it I can't stop it is so delicious so get across to check out the full
popcorn playlist and I'll leave a link to another video
here as well see you next time take care