St. Paddy’s Day Chocolate Covered Popcorn Recipe

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Make this festive St. Patrick’s Day chocolate covered popcorn recipe with just 3 ingredients! It’s an easy sweet treat that everyone always loves.

It’s your lucky day! This festive chocolate covered popcorn recipe is a super easy green dessert for St. Patrick’s Day. You can make this no-bake sweet and salty treat that’s ready to eat in just an hour. It’s the perfect addition to a dinner of Guinness burgers topped with Guinness glaze!

This was one of my favorite treats growing up; my mom would always make chocolate covered popcorn for Christmas. This year I figured, why not enjoy it for all the other holidays? With endless possibilities thanks to white chocolate and food coloring, I think this simple dessert should be a staple at all holiday parties!

Our Kelly green version of chocolate covered popcorn is just one way to make this recipe festive for St. Patrick’s Day. But there are tons of other creative ways you can color and serve this treat for a day of Irish fun!

St. Patty’s Day Chocolate Covered Popcorn Recipe Ingredients

You just need 3 ingredients to make this easy St. Patrick’s Day dessert:

• Popcorn – We have this glass microwave popcorn popper, so we typically just buy kernels from the store. But you can also use traditional microwave popcorn for this recipe if you prefer.
• White chocolate chips or baking melts – Baking melts work best because they don’t have the coating that helps keep chocolate chips looking like chocolate chips, but we’ve found both to work perfectly fine.
• Green food coloring – When it comes to coloring white chocolate, oil-based or powdered food coloring works best. This is because they can bind with the oils in chocolate, resulting in a smooth and silky texture. Water-based food coloring can cause white chocolate to seize, so avoid using it if you can. (If it’s all you have, you can still make this recipe – just note it will be more difficult to stir the chocolate into the popcorn).

See the recipe card for full information on ingredients and quantities.

How To Make Chocolate Covered Popcorn

1. First, microwave the popcorn until it’s popped – we use this microwave popcorn popper and it pops in about 2 to 2.5 minutes.
2. Transfer the popcorn to a bowl, carefully removing any unpopped kernels.
3. Next, melt the chocolate chips in the microwave in 30 second intervals, stirring vigorously every 30 seconds to encourage even melting.
4. Immediately add a few drops of green food coloring, and stir to combine.
5. Then, pour the chocolate over the popcorn and gently stir to coat the popcorn in chocolate. This step takes some patience, as you don’t want to stir too aggressively (this will break the popcorn).
6. Once the popcorn is well-covered in chocolate, spread it out into a single layer on a parchment-lined baking sheet and let it set at room temperature for at least 1 hour.
7. Finally, gently separate any large chunks of popcorn into smaller pieces and serve or store in an air-tight container for up to 1 week.

Chocolate Covered Popcorn FAQs

Recipe Variations

There are so many ways to customize this recipe for your St. Patty’s Day parties! Here are just a few ideas:

• Use yellow food coloring to make a “pot of gold” – repurpose a black cauldron from your Halloween decorations and fill it with the popcorn
• Make 3 separate batches – white (uncolored), green, and orange (mix red and yellow food coloring) to represent the Irish flag
• Make all the colors of the rainbow and arrange the popcorn in a rainbow shape on a serving tray
• Experiment with different amounts of green food coloring to achieve a lighter or more vibrant shade

The possibilities really are endless!

Make this easy green dessert for your St. Patty’s Day shindigs this weekend and let us know what you think of it by rating, commenting, and sharing below!