This Chocolate Covered Strawberry Popcorn is one of our favorite Valentines Day dessert recipes. This sweet and salty, chocolate and strawberry perfection is perfect for a movie night or romantic night in!
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Sometimes, you just need chocolate.
That is exactly how I felt a few weekends ago. I needed chocolate, rich dark chocolate, and lots of it. I scoured the cabinets to see what sort of chocolate concoction I could come up with. While I stared into my cabinets I saw a bag of popcorn and a bag of freeze dried strawberries.
Chocolate Strawberry Covered Popcorn? Could that work? I wasn't sure, but I was totally willing to experiment and find out! I popped the popcorn. Tossed a handful of the freeze dried strawberries in a blender and melted some chocolate. The result is a salty-sweet-fruity-chocolate bit of heaven!
Valentines Day Dessert Recipe
This delicious popcorn reminds me so much of the classic chocolate covered strawberries we always have for Valentine's Day! We love this popcorn so much that now it has been one of our go-toValentine's Day dessert recipes along with this Raspberry Chocolate Cake or Red Velvet Cake.
How to Make Chocolate Covered Strawberry Popcorn
Ingredients:
- bag of salty microwave popcorn (I use Orville Redenbacher)
- butter
- freeze dried strawberries
- dark chocolate chips
Directions:
1. Pop popcorn according to package directions. When popcorn has finished popping, melt butter and toss popcorn in the butter. Distribute it as evenly as you can.
2. Use a food processor to blend 1-2 tablespoons of the dried strawberries. Sprinkle the strawberry dust over the popcorn.
3. Spread popcorn out on a sheet of wax paper, sprinkle the remaining strawberries over the popcorn.
4. Melt chocolate according to package directions. Drizzle over popcorn. Let it cool and if you have any leftovers, store them in an air-tight container.
So, isn't this the perfect Valentine's Day dessert recipe? We love that it isn't too heavy! Also, MSN called this 'your new Netflix and Chill snack.' - haha!
If you like this recipe, we'd love for you to leave a comment and positive review! They mean so much to us!
Chocolate Covered Strawberry Popcorn
Equipment
- Microwave
Ingredients
- 1 bag microwave popcorn
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 cup freeze dried strawberries
- 1 cup dark chocolate chips
Instructions
- Pop popcorn according to package directions. When popcorn has finished popping, melt butter and toss popcorn in the butter, distribute it as evenly as you can.
- Using a food processor blend 1-2 tablespoons of the dried strawberries. Sprinkle the strawberry dust over the popcorn.
- Spread popcorn out on a sheet of wax paper, sprinkle the remaining strawberries over the popcorn.
- Melt chocolate according to package directions. Drizzle over popcorn.
- Let cool and store in an air tight container.
Notes
Nutrition
Recipe shared by Annie from Maebells.
This recipe was originally published in March 2015 and has been updated with a printable recipe and more detailed information.
Debra
Delicious, but about how long did it take your chocolate to “harden”?
We are over an hour out from making, and it still hasn’t … messy eating … that’s the disappointment in the recipe . Please clarify what I may have done incorrectly?
Derek
This is the perfect snack. I found this recipe after eating a bag of the Trader Joe’s chocolate covered strawberry popcorn in one sitting and realizing that it needed to be part of my life. If you’ve had the TJ’s popcorn, this recipe is dead on and so easy. In fact, I hope the author is getting a nice check from them since her recipe predates it by almost a decade. My only advice—however much parchment paper you’ve laid down, you’ll need more. Good luck not eating this before the chocolate hardens!
Patricia bergeron
Can't wait to try this. Looks yummy...moo
Lynnette Beste
We made this this weekend for a special movie night. It was a huge hit! Three favorites rolled into one, how can you miss! Scrumptious!
Pam Dana
This made the perfect treat this weekend!! THANK YOU!
Krissy Allori
This was so easy to make and tastes so good! We will be making it again for sure.
Sarah
YAY! Isn't it the best?
Betsy
So easy! Delicious! And I absolutely love this as a V-Day teacher's gift!
Lori
This is the most delicious treat!
Sarah
Right?! So good!
Kristina Bird
I think that step 4 which currently reads "4. Melt butter according to package directions. Drizzle over popcorn. Let cool and store in an air tight container." should read "Melt chocolate. Drizzle over....." I've never seen butter melting on package directions! I need a trip to Trader Joes for some freeze dried strawberries!
Sarah
Oh man! You are totally right. It is supposed to say chocolate, not butter. This is an old post and I'm updating it right now!
Michelle Robinson
Maybe I missed it in the recipe but when do you put the chocolate on the popcorn?
Sarah
So sorry! The instructions have a mistake in them, Step 4 is supposed to say 'melt chocolate' instead of 'melt butter' and drizzle it over the popcorn. I'm fixing it right now.
Jennifer Duncan
This looks like a wonderful treat!
Sydney Andersen
This looks so dang good! You've combined my three favorite foods into one delicious treat! I can not wait to try this!