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Cotton Candy Popcorn Bars is an easy treat recipe. This no bake recipe is so easy to make, let set, and cut into bite size bars. Grab the recipe, and see how to make this DearCreatives.com

Cotton Candy Popcorn Bars

A scrumptious, and sweet cotton candy popcorn treat that can be made in advance for celebrations. Pick your own candy colors to match your party themes, and celebrations

Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword cotton candy popcorn, cotton candy popcorn bars, marshmallow popcorn, treat recipes
Servings 6
Author Theresa Huse DearCreatives.com

Ingredients

  • Organic Nearly Naked Popcorn  at least 1 bag
  • Marshmallows mini or regular (or) Flavored Cotton Candy Marshmallows
  • Sprinkles: Sparkling Sugar Sprinkles Edible Gold Sprinkles Hearts and Stars Sprinkles in various colors
  • Candy Melts  comes in lots of colors
  • Cotton Candy Flavoring
  • Optional items you could add to your bars if you like are; white chocolate pretzels peanuts, white chocolate almond bars.
  • Pam non stick spray
  • You'll want to do this as when your working it's a quick dump, stir, add, stir, and get into your pan recipe.
  • Small batch - Double for 9 x 13 size baking dish.
  • 1/4 cup of cotton candy flavoring
  • 1/4 cup of candy sprinkles
  • 1/4 of blue candy melts
  • 1/2-1 cup of white chocolate chips we used 1 cup
  • 4 cups marshmallows
  • 3 cups popcorn + up to 1 cup extra to stir in as needed
  • 1 cup popcorn reserved for blue topping

Instructions

  1. 1 Spray your baking dish with non stick spray, and set to side
  2. 2 Layout all your ingredients, Pre measuring the amounts.
  3. 3 Add popcorn into your big mixing bowl
  4. 4 Next add your measured marshmallows into the microwave on high for one minute.
  5. Take out and stir then heat until melted 35-60 more seconds.
  6. 5 Add your melted marshmallows to your big bowl of popcorn. Stir well.
  7. 6 Next add your cotton candy flavoring 1/8 cup to 1/4 cup max., and stir. You don't want it overly soggy.
  8. 7 Then add in your 1 cup white chocolate chips. If it seems like your mixture needs more popcorn (like image above) add up to 1 cup more.
  9. 8 Add in your measured about 1/4 cup candy sprinkles, and stir completely.
  10. 9 Add into your pre sprayed dish, and press down gently.
  11. 10 Melt your (blue or other color) candy melts carefully either in the microwave or in your candy melting pot. ( In microwave, it doesn't take long to heat but, chocolate melts can burn. Heat 30 sec. stir, heat 30 sec. stir...until done- do it like this or it can burn!)
  12. (sorry I didn't have time to grab images of this step)
  13. 11 Take your other clean bowl of measured popcorn, and add your  blue (or other color) melted candy, and stir until fully coated. Then layer on top of the pink popcorn.
  14. 12 Next Add more sprinkles to the top of your popcorn mixture in the dish.
  15. 13 Let cool completely. Cover to serve later, within 24 hours. Or cut, and serve right away after it sets up. At least give it a few hours.

Recipe Notes

See full recipe for step by step.
I recommend doubling for a 9 x 13 size dish serves 12-15. this is for a 8 x 7 or 8 x 8 size dish serves 6. Follow same steps in recipe.