Melt vanilla-flavored almond bark and mix in popcorn, pretzels, and corn pop cereal to make a sweet treat everyone will love. I have a friend to thank for the recipe and now I'm sharing it with you.
My friend Beverly calls this delicious concoction "snow flurries," but when I was writing up the title for this article, and I googled snow flurries, I found there is a gummy candy called Snow Flurries, so I made up my own name for the recipe.
update January 2025: I added dry roasted peanuts and drizzled semi sweet chocolate over the candy!
Beverly once owned a popular butcher shop/deli and would make this treat on cold winter days. The snow flurries were a big seller. I was invited to a gathering at her house this week, and we had lots of good things to eat, including the popcorn crunch candy. I asked for the recipe a few days later.
She got the recipe years ago from another friend of ours. Before the internet and thousands of recipe websites, families and friends shared recipes with each other. Now, we just pull out our smartphones or computers and do a search.
I still enjoy looking through printed cookbooks, especially the older ones published by church groups. Anyone else?
Getting back to the recipe. It is really simple and takes less than 30 minutes to make. The most difficult part for me was finding microwave popcorn that wasn't flavored! You really need to use unflavored popcorn for this recipe. The popcorn can be salted, which I would actually prefer because this candy is so sweet.
Almond Bark Popcorn Pretzel Corn Pop Crunch
Ingredients
1 24 ounce package of Almond Bark Vanilla Flavor Candy Coating
1 bag microwave plain salted popcorn, popped with unpopped kernels removed
2 cups mini pretzel rings
4 – 6 cups corn pops cereal
Directions
- You will need a very large mixing bowl to combine all the ingredients.
- Melt the almond bark in the microwave in 30-second increments, stirring every 30 seconds. It should take 2-3 minutes to melt the bark.
- Pop the microwave popcorn and remove any unpopped kernels.
- Mix popcorn, pretzels, and corn pops into the melted almond bark.
- Spread mixture onto parchment paper sprayed with cooking oil.
- Let cool 30 to 45 minutes, break into pieces, and store in airtight containers.
Notes
The original recipe calls for 4-6 cups of corn pops, and I normally use only 4 cups.
You can use prepopped bagged popcorn; just be sure it is unflavored. I often find bags of this popcorn at TJMaxx. I’m sure it is available in other places too.
I finally found the Orville Redenbacker's Naturals microwave popcorn at Publix.
I got out a large bowl and melted the almond bark but the "large" bowl wasn't big enough to hold everything. I poured the melted bark into a larger bowl, so I would have room to add the rest of the ingredients.
Remember, besides the almond bark, there are 10+ cups of ingredients, and you need plenty of room to stir everything together. Start with a LARGE bowl.
You want to be sure and coat all of the pieces with the vanilla flavored bark.
I used parchment paper sprayed with cooking oil to spread the popcorn pretzel corn pop concoction. You could also use a large cookie sheet sprayed with cooking spray.
I let the mix dry for about 30 minutes, then broke it into pieces.
I filled several containers with my Almond Bark Popcorn Pretzel Corn Pop Crunch.
And I bagged up some for my son and granddaughters to take home. Beverly says she doubles the recipe when she makes it, and if you decide to do that, grab a large aluminum or enamelware dishpan to mix it up in.
We don't eat sweet cereal at our house and I didn't know what corn pops were. Now I do. Let me know if you try this candy. We all love it!
I mentioned earlier that I tried a variation on the recipe and here are my thoughts...
I kept the proportions of all the ingredients the same but added 1 cup of salted dry roasted peanuts to the mix.
And I did like the addition of the peanuts but not sure about the chocolate. My idea was to melt semi sweet chocolate chips and then drizzle the melted chips over the popcorn mixture as it was setting up on the parchment paper.
The only problem was the melted chips didn't really drizzle. The melted chips were too thick so I used the edge of a spoon and just brushed chocolate over the mixture.
I also wanted to add the semi sweet chocolate thinking it would cut the sweetness of the candy a little bit but it didn't. If I decide to try the chocolate again I will use dark chocolate and a kind that I can "drizzle' when it is melted! I hope you enjoy this recipe.
Vanilla Almond Bark Popcorn Pretzel Corn Pop Crunch
Author: Recipe Idea Shop
Equipment
- Large Mixing Bowl
- Parchment Paper
Ingredients
- 1 24 ounce package of Almond Bark Vanilla Flavor Candy Coating
- 1 bag microwave plain salted popcorn popped with unpopped kernels removed
- 2 cups mini pretzel rings
- 4-6 cups corn pops cereal
Instructions
- You will need a very large mixing bowl to combine all the ingredients.
- Melt the almond bark in the microwave in 30-second increments, stirring every 30 seconds. It should take 2-3 minutes to melt the bark.
- Pop the microwave popcorn and remove any unpopped kernels.
- Mix popcorn, pretzels, and corn pops into the melted almond bark.
- Spread mixture onto parchment paper sprayed with cooking oil.
- Let cool 30 to 45 minutes, break into pieces, and store in airtight containers.
Notes
Other recipes you might like:
Cornflake Candy
Crunchy Peanut Butter Cookies
Knorr Spinach Dip
