Chilli Chocolate Popcorn

Chilli Chocolate popcorn
This is an awesome way to combine sweet and hot flavors and a great way to use up some left over hot sauce and sugar you have around

Ingredients

Popcorn
Sugar
Hot Sauce
Chocolate

Equipment

Trays
Plastic containers
Fork/Blender
Spoon
Bowl’s
Pan of boiling water
Microwave/Stove

Notes

Popcorn
- I have basic microwave popcorn. I found some ‘movie theater’ butter flavor popcorn. You can use your favorite flavor microwave popcorn or you can make it the good old fashioned way with the kernels and a pan of oil.

Chocolate
- I used bakers semisweet chunks, you can use any chocolate you find

Use the microwave and cook according to instructions
Or
Heat olive oil in a pan, throw the kernels in and cover with a lid. Listen for the pops, don’t burn, season

In a double boiler ( a bowl over a pan full of boiling water ) melt the chocolate

Spread the popcorn out in a tray

Turn the chocolate out over the popcorn

Mix the popcorn and Chocolate

Put a few drops of hot sauce in the sugar - this is really fiery hot sauce so I only used a small amount.

Mix with a fork until fully incorporated

You have to work fast because you want the chocolate to still be sticky when you apply the sugar so it sticks

Put the sugar in a sieve, push it through with a spoon.

Mix

If you cant wait and need to eat this straight away then go ahead. BUT you will get covered in chocolate. If you have kids expect chocolate hand prints all over the walls. If you can wait then fridge these yummy snacks for at least 30 mins.

Ideas
You could try using colored sugar
You could try different flavor chocolate/popcorn

Presentation
For the cover Pic I individually dipped the popped corn in the chocolate and sugar - You don’t have to do that unless your writing and instructable or working for a food magazine!!