This invention of modern popcorn is accredited to Charles Creator in the late 19th century. Till today, the USA is regarded as the country that eats the most popcorn in the world. Let us know ‘Pumpkin Spice Popcorn’.
How to Prepare Pumpkin Spice Popcorn?
Basics Recipe
This basic recipe shall cover ingredients and the simplest way to make pumpkin spice popcorn.
Ingredients
- Cooking oil (coconut oil, vegetable oil, salted, or unsalted butter): You can use any healthy cooking oil.
- Popcorn kernel: This is the raw corn used in making popcorn. A small amount of this ingredient creates magic.
- Salt
- Pumpkin pie spice
How to prepare it?
- Preheat your cooking pan (your pan must be big enough to contain the popcorn)
- Add 3 tsp of cooking oil
- Allow it to heat up
Tip: Put two popcorn kernels in the oil. If it pops white, it means the oil is hot and ready for more.
- When the oil is very hot, put your ⅓ cup of the popcorn kernel
- Stir till the kernels start popping
- Once they start popping, add 1 tsp of pumpkin pie spice.
- Stir continuously till all the popcorn kernels pop
- When your kernel completely pops white, add a pinch of salt, and serve your delicious snack in a bowl.
Serving: Suitable to service 1-2 persons
How To Make Pumpkin Pie Spice?
Now, you might not want to buy pumpkin pie from the store; thus, prefer to do it yourself. Here is how to prepare homemade pumpkin pie spice.
Steps
- Get 2 dry bowls, a sieve, and a whisker for mixing your spice
- Mix the following ingredients in one of the dry bowls
- 5 tsp of cinnamon
- 4 tsp of ginger
- 3 tsp of nutmeg
- 3 tsp of allspice
- 1½ tsp of cloves
- Use your sifter to sieve these ingredients in the second dry bowl
- Now, use your whisker to mix the ingredients well.
- Get a dry jar; a funnel, and gently pour your pumpkin pie spice into the jar
- Shake the jar to mix properly. There, you have made 16½ tsp of pumpkin pie spice
This recipe saves you a lot of money; also, you can make your pumpkin pie popcorn 10 times over.
However, if you don’t have the luxury of time to prepare or buy pumpkin pie spice, you can use any of the following as a substitute:
- Cinnamon
- Ginger
- Nutmeg
- Cloves
Measurement: ¼ tsp of each substitute per ⅓ cup of the popcorn kernel
Types of Extra Flavored Pumpkin Pie Popcorn
Making basic pumpkin pie may boring at times. Thus, as a creative mind, you like to try new pumpkin pie recipes. You could invent as many extra flavored pumpkin spice popcorn recipes as you want. To mention a few of the best popcorn flavors:
- Carmel pumpkin spice popcorn
- White chocolate pumpkin spice popcorn
A) Carmel Pumpkin Pie Popcorn
Ingredients
- 2 bags of ready-made popcorn or ½ cup of popcorn kernel (you can make your popcorn at home if you don’t want to buy it in the store)
- Butter
- Brown sugar
- Pumpkin pie spice
- Vallina
- Corn or maple syrup
- Salt
- Pumpkin seed (not compulsory, but adds more flavor to your popcorn)
- Water
How to make it?
- If you’re using popcorn kernel, heat it with hot cooking oil till it pops white, and keep it aside.
- Now preheat your pot and add 6 tsp of unsalted butter (if you’re using salted butter there’s no need to add salt to your popcorn). Also sometimes, your ready-made popcorn may have salt tastiness in it.
- Add the following ingredients
- 3 cups of brown sugar
- 2½ tsp of pumpkin pie spice
- 2 tsp of corn or maple syrup
- 1 tsp of Vallina
- Pinch of salt (only if you’re using unsalted butter)
- 3 tsp of water
- Stir these mixtures gently till it bubbles, allow it to steam for 30 seconds, then turn off the gas
- Get your cookie tray (2 for each bag of ready-made popcorn), place your wax paper on it, spread your 2 bags of popcorn on each tray, sprinkle ¼ cup of pumpkin seed on each pan, and pour your cooked ingredient evenly on each pan, and mix it.
- Bake in an oven at 225 degrees for 1hr and stir it every 15 minutes within the 1hr interval
Serving: Suitable to serve 4-5 persons
B) White Chocolate Pumpkin Spice Popcorn
Ingredients
- ¼ cup of the popcorn kernel
- Butter
- Corn or maple syrup
- Brown sugar
- Pumpkin pie spice
- ¼ cup of white chocolate
How to prepare?
- Pop your popcorn kernel with 1 tsp of cooking oil, and keep aside
- Measure ¼ of the following ingredients in your pot
- ¼ cup of butter and brown sugar
- ¼ tsp of corn or maple syrup
- ¼ tsp of pumpkin pie spice
- Mix these ingredients in the pot for 2-3 minutes till it bubbles
- Get your popped popcorn and mix it evenly with your pumpkin pie sauce
- Spread it on your wax or parchment paper to cool
- Melt ¼ cup of white chocolate in your oven
- When it melts completely, put it in a piping bag and quickly spread it on your popcorn
Note: Make sure the melted white chocolate doesn’t stay cool for long. If not, it will harden and you won’t be able to use it as intended.
- Stir your delicious popcorn and serve
Serving: suitable to serve 1-2 persons.
Conclusion
With this easy to follow recipes, you can make healthy snacks for Halloween, gifts for friends and family, snacks for kids, and picnics.
