Pistachio Chewy Bite Popcorn Ball Recipe

 

 

Delicious and Nutritious Halloween-Inspired Popcorn Balls

 

 popcorn balls

This picture and recipe is being shared with you courtesy of Jenny Engel and Heather Goldberg of Spork Foods. This is a yummy, nutritious, gluten free and vegan easy to make recipe. Perfect for Halloween, but you’ll probably want to make it year round. 

Pistachio Chewy Bite Popcorn Balls

Ingredients:
5 cups popped popcorn
1/4 cup non-hydrogenated buttery spread (Earth Balance)
2 cups vegan marshmallows (Dandie’s brand)
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon sea salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 bag Setton Farms Pistachio Chewy Bites, 6 pieces, roughly chopped

Directions:
In a 4-6 quart heavy pot, add buttery spread, marshmallows, cinnamon and sea salt. Cook for 3 to 4 minutes. Turn off heat and add vanilla extract and Pistachio Chewy Bites. Stir well, mixing until uniform.

Use a 1/2 cup measuring cup to portion out the mixture into 10 balls and place on a parchment or wax paper lined baking sheet.

Enjoy when cooled.

(C) Spork Foods, 2014

Let me tell you a little about the chefs:

L.A.-based sisters and celebrity chefs, Heather Goldberg and Jenny Engel of Spork Foods are vegan chefs that own a Los Angeles-based gourmet cooking school. The culinary duo are also cookbook authors and work with some of Hollywood’s elite including Emily and Zooey Deschanel, Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard, Kristin Bauer van Straten and Alicia Silverstone.

 

Disclosure: My Silly Little Gang didn’t receive any compensation for this post.

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