My favorite birthday cake as a kid was a colorful confetti box cake with store-bought chocolate icing and lots and lots of sprinkles. Makes me happy just to think about those luscious cakes! You will also need some pretty Birthday Cake Sprinkles which you can find in the Baking aisle in most grocery stores. How to Prepare the Marshmallow Mixture Fun and festive marshmallow Popcorn Cake filled with M&M’s and peanuts. An easy no-bake colorful dessert recipe, perfect for birthdays, holidays and even movie night! And to make them for Halloween, coat the popcorn in dark chocolate and top with halloween cake sprinkles or Christmas themed with festive cake sprinkles. When you are ready to serve the cake loosen sides of your cake from the pan by running a butter knife around the edges.

After a little experimenting, I'm happy to report that you can! Just add a few drops of your food coloring of choice in with the kernels (and toss or stir to combine) before you pop them. If you want to do multiple colors, you'll need to color and prepare them separately to avoid blending of the colors. Okay, so, admittedly this wasn't something that had ever occurred to me until someone asked me if they could up to the color variety in their funfetti popcorn and add colored popcorn to the sprinkles. If you decided to freeze already popped popped corn, just place it in an air tight container or bag releasing as much air out as possible. Store it for up to a month. It will always taste better when it’s fresh though, so if you have some leftover, turn it into one of these great recipe!

Birthday Cake Popcorn

Step 4: The not-so-secret ingredient in our Cake Batter Popcorn is a box of Yellow Cake Mix: Note about the cake mix: If you are worried about eating the raw flour in the cake mix you can bake the 1/2 cup of cake mix in a low oven for 15 minutes. Also, you will be adding the cake mix to a very hot mixture of melted marshmallows and butter so it will get slightly cooked during that process. Don’t Forget the Birthday Sprinkles

For a larger cake, make two batches of birthday cake popcorn. Cut out the tiers with an aluminum cake ring or a medium-sized tart ring. I'm going to out myself here – I've been making popcorn in a plain, unlined paper bag for as long as I can remember, and I only recently found out that's apparently very much frowned upon and dangerous. White chocolate melts work better than white chocolate bars. It's rare that I'd recommend you use candy melts over chocolate bars, but since you want the chocolate to set it's better to use melting wafers because it will harden. With that said, white chocolate bars will work – it just might not be fully set and be as “crunchy” in the end. But don't worry – it's still freaking delicious.Chocolate Birthday Cake Popcorn is probably the most fun of all of them. It’s crazy crunchy and colorful, not to mention it tastes just like the birthday cakes of my youth. Kid birthday cakes were the best. And, sadly, those box cakes are not as delicious now that my taste buds havematured. Simple yellow cake mix, some popcorn (I just popped one bag in the microwave), vegetable shortening, white chocolate chips and sprinkles. Five ingredients—it doesn’t get better than that! This fun recipe makes every occasion special. Here’s what you’ll need to make a delicious batch of confetti popcorn: The consistency is right when it is creamy but firm enough that you can spread it easily. You can go up to 6 cups of powdered sugar or ½ cup of heavy cream.