Holiday White Chocolate Mini Popcorn Balls are the perfect addition to any cookie tray. Bite size balls of popcorn, dipped in white chocolate, and decorated with holiday sprinkles. An easy no bake, gluten free treat that makes an awesome food gift too.
Here it is, December. The busiest month of the year. How is your “to do” list coming along? Is the tree trimmed, stockings hung, shopping at least started? What about baking?
December is such a whirlwind month. It just doesn’t stop from now till January. Parties, shopping, baking. Running all over town just trying to gather all your goodies for the big day.
Are you a baker? Have you started? The wonderful bloggers of #FoodBlogGenius have put together a great collaboration of Christmas Cookies. If you haven’t started thinking about what you might like to make, I’m sure you will want to try a few (if not all) of these tasty holiday creations.
Now that December is officially here, it’s time to get things (like so many things) in order. From now till Christmas, time will fly by, and before we know it Santa will be making his way around the world.
We put so much time and effort into this very special day of the year. When it’s all over, I am usually relieved, sad and totally exhausted. No matter how much you can get done ahead of time, it seems there are never enough hours in the day during the month of December.
Everyone has their favourite holiday foods. Cookies, treats, drinks, so many totally delicious things to indulge in during the season. What are some of yours? We can’t go without eggnog. Rum & Eggnog Latte happens to be our favourite festive drink.
What about white chocolate?
No other time of year do I enjoy white chocolate more than during the holidays. It just seems to pair so well in many recipes. I love it in my Oatmeal Cranberry Cookies with White Chocolate & Pistachios.
Quick & Easy Festive Holiday Croissants would not be the same without that white chocolate drizzle. Are you a white chocolate lover too?
Bring on the baking!!
Holiday baking really is something I have been used to all my life. My mom would always make such wonderful cookies every year. My kids always ask for their favourites, and it just wouldn’t be Christmas without shortbread, candy cane cookies, peanut butter bars and rum balls.
Do you bake? It seems like it is a love or hate topic. How about some “no bake” treats like these Holiday White Chocolate Mini Popcorn Balls.
These are so easy to make, and look so cute on the cookie tray. You could even make them as a “food gift” to take to your next party or potluck. Perfect for cookie exchanges too.
All you have to do is make some popcorn (or buy some ready popped). Melt some mini marshmallows with butter, mix with the popcorn and form into balls.
Melt some white chocolate, dip the popcorn balls, then decorate with any holiday sprinkles you desire. Gingerbread people, snowflakes, coloured balls, even crushed candy canes would be awesome too.
If you are not a baker, but still want to make holiday treats these Holiday White Chocolate Mini Popcorn Balls are for you.
Tis the season to indulge, so don’t forget to stop by and visit the other wonderful bloggers of #FoodBlogGenius and check out their mouthwatering holiday treats.
Christmas Cookies, clockwise from top left:
- Holiday White Chocolate Mini Popcorn Balls (Gloria – Homemade and Yummy)
- Gingerbread Cookies (Melissa – My Wife Can Cook)
- No Bake Chocolate Cranberry Cookies (Kirsten – Treat Yourself Sweeter)
- No-Bake Cinnamon Peanut Butter Cranberry Cookies (Arlene – Flour on My Face)
- Gluten-Free Spiced Cookie Brittle (Sarah – The Fit Cookie)
- Macadamia Date Roll Cookies (Veena – Veena Azmanov)
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Pair those holiday treats with a great holiday drink. Festive Holiday Special Tea is perfect.
Holiday White Chocolate Mini Popcorn Balls
Ingredients
- 7-8 cups plain popcorn
- 1/4 cup butter
- 2 1/2 cups mini marshmallows
- 4 ounces good quality white chocolate
- Assorted holiday sprinkles (to decorate)
Instructions
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Lay out a silicone mat on the counter.
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Place popcorn in a large bowl.
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In a pot melt the butter and marshmallows.
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Pour over popcorn, and mix well.
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Spray hands with cooking spray.
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Squeeze popcorn into 1 1/2" balls and place on silicone mat.
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Place your sprinkles in bowls.
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Melt the white chocolate (either on the stove or microwave).
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Dip each popcorn ball into the melted chocolate enough to cover the top half of the ball.
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Immediately dip the popcorn ball into the sprinkles.
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Place on silicone mat to harden.
These popcorn balls look just sooo christmassy! Love the idea
Thanks so much. They are a fun and festive little treat.
Oh that looks good! So colorful, fun and festive!
They are fun to make and fun to eat.
These cookies are so pretty. I love popcorn with the white chocolate.
They are super easy to make…and delicious too.
What a fun little treat for the Holidays. I am sure my kids would be all over these, ad they sound simple enough for them to help out with, which is always a huge plus!
Yes the kids would have fun with these for sure.
White chocolate, popcorn and marshmallows?! Count me in! Looks great!
Thanks…hope you give them a try.
These popcorn balls are so cute and look delicious!
Thanks so much, they are fun to make and fun to eat.
What a cute, festive treat! Love your photos. They definitely do seem perfect for non-bakers or those with little helpers.
For sure, super easy. Thanks for the compliments.
Those gingerbread men sprinkles are so ridiculously cute! And I love the sweet and salty combination here!!
Yes are are cute…I think they are my favourite by far.
I have to make these for all of the holiday parties! I love no bake, popcorn, and chocolate. I can do this!
YES you can to this. ENJOY!!
This is so perfect, I’ve been collecting recipes to make as edible gifts this Christmas and I think your popcorn balls have just jumped to the top of the list! Love your decorations too, keen to check out what I can get my hands on!
Well thanks so much. Hope you have lots of fun making them.
This is such a cute idea! And it’s more creative than traditional Christmas treats. I’m going to make these with my kiddos – they’ll love them!
Yes they will LOVE YOU for making them.
These popcorn balls look like the perfect easy homemade gift to pass out to my husband’s coworkers for Christmas! I especially love the festive red and green sprinkled you used. I need to pick some up for my own batch 😉
Thanks so much…they are a fun little stress free Christmas treat.
Yum, this looks so easy, I’m normally a dark chocolate person but I can see how white chocolate would pair well with popcorn.
Works awesome with the popcorn.
Popcorn Balls ar so much fun during the holidays. I love the way you updated this old classic Christmas recipe Gloria!
Thanks so much Arlene.
These are so festive looking but sound really easy to make too which is always a bonus with Christmas baking! Life is so hectic at this time of year so it’s good to have some easy recipes on hand too.
Yes getting some stress free treats to make is key during this totally hectic season.
What a great addition to a cookie tray! YUM!
Thanks…we happen to think so too.
OMG! What a genius idea! I’ll definitly doing that for my family this christmas! I’ll empress them, thanks to you;)
Hope you give them a try….ENJOY!!
I love white chocolate so I can’t wait to make these popcorn balls. I would have fun making these with my daughter. Thanks for sharing.
You are welcome. Hope you give them a try. ENJOY!!
These look so good, and it’s so funny that I love popcorn balls, but hate how big they are. This solves that problem, haha!
Exactly…they are always to big and awkward to eat. These just pop in your mouth.
Oh my gosh… My Christmas list is not going well! My plan is to get the tree up today….!! I love popcorn- favourite snack… these are like little crunchy snowballs of perfection. Love it!
Oh dear…this is such a busy time of year to try and get everything done. Happy Holidays!!
These look so delicious and like such a fun creative project! 🙂 And I absolutely LOVE anything that’s salty and sweet–it’s the best combination!
They are fun to make and fun to eat.
These look so delicious and seem like a fun creative project 🙂 And I LOVE anything salty and sweet! It’s the best combination!
Thanks so much.
These bring back childhood memories of eating popcorn balls with my best friend, only those weren’t decorated. Yours are super cute and so fun for the holidays.
Thanks so much. They were fun to make.
So funny, I always gravitate to the mini popcorn balls when I see them on a holiday platter but I have never made them myself. These look so simple and easy to make!
Hope you give them a try.
OMG! My son is getting his braces off next week and I’ know he would love to be surprised with these! I can’t wait to make them!
I’m sure he will love them…and you!!
These are pretty dangerous, I can have an entire bowl of those in a few minutes!!
Lovely recipe for Christmas treats!
Wish you a wonderful end of the week darling!
Yes they can be addictive.
Yum. Yum. YUMMY!
I have never heard of these bit now I wonder how I lived without them all this time.I must make these. Like now! LOL!
🙂
Traci
Hope you give them a try.
These look so good, so easy and so fun to make ! I love using popcorn! It makes it all seem so healthy too! We are adding this to our cookbook for cookies ! Thanks
Enjoy!! Happy Holidays!!
What a yummy treat. I like the combo of white chocolate and peppermint. very festive. These would make great gift ideas.
Yes they would for sure.
Yum, yum, yum! My family would love this and it’s so cute and festive!
They are a fun little treat.
These popcorn balls look so good. I am really in love with the mini gingerbread men. They are so cute!
Yes they certainly are cute.
Gloria – I adore these little popcorn balls! They are so festive and cute and delicious! And they are easy to prepare! I love that you don’t have to use your oven for it too! I’m definitely stealing this idea!
No problem…ENJOY!!
Such a lovely idea! I love popcorn, it’s my favourite snack but I never thought of making anything sweet with it.
These are easy and fun to make.
Wow, what an awesome idea! Popcorn covered in white chocolate. There is nothng better than this!
HAHAH…hope you give them a try.
These look so festive, nice addition of the marshmallows too
Thank you so much. Happy Holidays!!
Popcorn is my all-time favorite food. Then you add all these sweet goodies to it! I am soooo making these for the holidays!
Hope you enjoy them as much as we do.
What a great idea for cookies! We can’t have white chocolate but my kids would probably love these made with regular chocolate – yum!
Oh they would work well with milk chocolate too.
These look so delicious and so easy to make Gloria – Can’t wait to try
They are easy and fun to make.
These look great. This would be a fun recipe to get the kids involved in!
They would love helping for sure.
I love the gingerbread man sprinkles! Where did you find them? And my kids and I would love these mini popcorn balls. Definitely trying!
The little gingerbread guys are cute. Do you have a Bulk Barn … or a baking supply store. You can look there.