I recently took part in the second annual The Sweet Swap, run by the lovely Belly Rumbles and Chewtown. This is an Australia-wide even where bloggers create a batch of something, are matched with three other food bloggers, and send their parcels of yumminess to those three bloggers. In return you receive three lots of sweet teats form three different food bloggers.
Imagine all the behind the scenes work done by Sara (Belly Rumbles) and Amanda (Chewtown) in putting it all together!
I received pretty rocky road [which Misses 6 & 8 promptly inhaled] from www.whatcanibake.blogspot.com.au
Amazing trio of chocolate truffle from www.eatmystreet.wordpress.com
And all the yes! Sweet pecan popcorn from Alice & Sharon of westernsydneyfoodblog
As one of my recipients is a vegan, I started hunting for inspiration that was free of honey, gelatine, butter and other dairy.
I found it at the beautifully designed http://ohpapillon.com blog with the recipe Salted Popcorn Peanut Butter Fudge [ see the original here: http://ohpapillon.com/post/58806922974/more-i-know-its-been-kind-of-a-long-time ] – I tweaked it a smidgeon.
It won me over with its liberal use of popcorn, which I consider to be food of the gods. Regular readers would know I named my dog after this moreish snack food.
GATHER:
60ml coconut oil
60ml maple syrup
60ml crunchy peanut butter
2 tablespoons coconut milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
70g sifted icing sugar
70g plain flour
1 cup cooked popcorn
LET’S GET TO IT:
Line a 20x18cm pan with foil.
Place coconut oil, maple syrup, peanut butter and coconut milk in a saucepan over a low heat and stir until the oil has melted.
Increase the heat slightly and simmer for two minutes.
Take off the heat, carefully stir in vanilla, sugar, and then the flour. Mix until combined then stir in the cup of popcorn.
Scrape into tin [it will be thick and hard to manoeuvre] then put in fridge for a couple of hours to set. When firm slice into small squares.
I loved packaging up my popcorn fudge: how cute are these boxes?!
the hungry mum 
How fun is that!! And the popcorn fudge is so creative!
So much fun! Coming home to boxes of sweet treats, rather than bills, is the best!
I am delighted that you and I share a love of popcorn – I too this it is heavenly in everything. This fudge looks wonderful! Thanks so much for participating. x
Aww, thank YOU for all your work getting the Sweet Swap happening again. Maybe we can start a club – Popcorn Eaters Anonymous? #drugOfChoice
Hoo ha Mrs Hungry, this fudge looks the business and those boxes are totally adorable!
hehehe! Anything with popcorn gets my motor running – I am easily pleased 🙂
oh, yum hungry mum 🙂 How brilliant is a sweet exchange!
It is excellent, Liz! I’d love to do a Christmas cookie exchange but don’t have the wherewithal to plan it!
What a great idea. I love your wrapping as well!
Cheers! Those little boxes were soooo cute!
Ooo ~~ they look so yummy!!
haha were all your sweets indulged by both miss 6 and 8? 😉
I love the cute little book boxes you packaged them in!!
My little kitchen helpers do enjoy sampling most things 🙂
love!
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thanks!
What a fun idea! I’m going to have to try this sometime! 😉
thanks! I would walk on hot coals for popcorn 🙂
What a great idea, your popcorn fudge and the sweet swap. We had a pet white rabbit once named popcorn..
whoo,,,aaah, they all look delicious! I love baking and swapping with friends! 🙂
Wow, they all sound delicious and look spectacular. But goodness. That popcorn fudge of yours combines a whole lot of ingredients that I love beyond words, so I guess that’s going to get Pinned here immediately for a local test drive. 😉 Thanks!
xo,
Kathryn
Hey thanks Kathryn! Is hard to go past popcorn with ANYTHING as far as I’m concerned! Hope you love it x
Popcorn fudge!! Yum!!! And your wrapping is divine! xx
I was able to sample a similar popcorn-fudge on a provincial trip last year and I loved it! Thanks for the recipe; it’ll be perfect for a bit of nosh I can share at work. 😀
Popcorn is obviously the new black 🙂 Am loving it!
That’s so creative!
And so fun to make!
😀
How fun! Everything looks sinfully delicious. 🙂
Let’s put it this way: I was on the phone to my dentist making appointments verrrry recently…
Aww, those boxes are so darn cute! I’m totally bummed because I was out of the country when the sweet swap happened and couldn’t participate this year. Nonetheless, these treats look incredible and hurray for popcorn too, also one of my all time favourite foods 🙂
oh no 😦 Such bad timing. Oh well – there’s always next year! The boxes were from my beloved Daiso. Love that place 🙂
Wow! It’s definitely worth a try!
🙂
Fudge with popcorn is amazing:-)
It is where sweet meets savoury & soft meets crunchy 🙂
My teeth are aching in the best way possible after reading your post 😀
Absolutely loving your photos, that fudge is to die for!
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Looks sooo great!! I want to try this! 🙂
Sounds delicious! This is on my “must make” list, thanks for sharing!
Excellent! Hope you get to try it 🙂
This is such an awesome idea! I love using popcorn as an ingredient and flavoring, so I’m all over your incredibly creative fudge. Sounds like it could be holiday gift box material, too.
excellent! I’m also a popcorn fan so am happy to inspire popcorn-isms around the world 🙂
How deliciously creative is this. Never heard of a popcorn fudge 😀
I am a popcorn fanatic so find a way to work it in to all types of things where it probably doesn’t belong 🙂
And the way you get creative,one fine day you will find yourself as a CEO or director of a famous popcorn company. That’s for sure 🙂
hhehehe! I like the way you think 🙂
I love sweet and salty combos these look delicious I love the idea!
Hmm well let’s see, a little late than never in commenting? Gah Sorry! Thank you so much for participating this year. Love what you made, Ms Chew Town would of gobbled them all up if she had the chance for sure. Actually so would of I. Your packaging, stunning!
I’m all about the packaging – anything kawaii & red and I’m on it 😉 Thanks again for organising it – I love it!