Fruity Glazed Popcorn

1. 01 Introduction: Thank you for taking this class. In this class, I will teach you how to make this fruity popcorn. First, I will teach you how to prepare the fridge dried fruit for the glaze. I will teach you how to pop the popcorn, usually an air Popper. Next, I will teach you how to make the fruity glaze. Then I will teach you how to combine the popcorn and the glazes. Finally, I will show you how to derive the popcorn and then mix it for eating. I'm a self-taught Baker and cake decorator. Many years ago. I decided I wanted to make cakes for other people for special occasions. So I took some classes, watch some videos, read some books, and of course, did a lot of practice until I fill up my cake decorating skills. We're at the level that I could make cakes for other people. Opened up my own home bakery. And I had this business for several years. In this bakery, I make cakes for different occasions. I also went to farmers markets where I made different gourmet popcorn cell along with some of my baked treats. I had this business for several years and tell my husband got a job offer in New York City. We decided this was a good move for us, and so I closed my bakery and we moved across the country to New York City. Now here in New York City, I do not want to go through the steps to open up another homepage. But I still love baking and creating, and I love teaching. I decided to share my skill with you on Skillshare. This class is ended. The baker that would like to learn how to make a delicious and even a little bit healthy, fruity gourmet popcorn. I am excited to teach you the skills learned in this class. Let's move on to lesson number one, preparing the freeze dried fruit. 2. 02 Grinding The Freeze dried fruit: We're ready to start making our popcorn. The first thing we're going to do is we're going to take the freeze dried fruit and make them into a powder. We're going to grind them up. The three flavors that I chose was Banana, strawberry, and blueberry. Let me show you how I do this. I've measured out my one ounce of freeze dried fruit. Just going to stick it in to this blender cup and then pick the blender part on top. And then I'm just going to look at that. I see a couple of chunks. And you can see I have the powder there. After all. Have done the first one. I need to clean the blade. I also cleaned the cup and I need to completely dry them. If I still have water in there, it's going to make the next ones stick. So it's very important that I get totally in there and get it totally dry. The next one I'm going to do is the strawberry going to get this in there? And do the same with this, but I did with the banana on there. Once it is ground-up fine, like that. I'm going to do the same with this and dump it into this, so that I have my strawberry. Finally, we're going to do a blueberry. And with that, we have our three flavors that we're going to make in our popcorn. In our next lesson, we will pop up popcorn. 3. 03 Popping The Popcorn: We're now ready to pop our popcorn. I like to use a hot air hopper because then I'm not adding any fat and salt or anything like that to it. Let me show you how I do it. I poured my top thing so that it's ready to go in. Once I've turned the popcorn popper on, plugin the popcorn popper. We just went for it. Now, you kernels are started. Right after. Now. Fill that in. We're going to go ahead and unplug it. And we might still get one or two pops after we've unplugged it, but that's pretty much finishing it up. We're now ready to measure out or popcorn. I have three balls to put popcorn in and I have the pump can be pumped. Each pole is going to need two cups of popcorn. I am going to measure it out with the measurement. I'm just going to use my hand. I don't want to break the popcorn up and I'm going to measure out one. And that's all I'm going to need in this code. Now we'll get a measured. The other one, I wanted to make sure I don't get any, um, popped kernels. In. My only reason I'm hand scooping like this one. And our last poll. If I don't quite have to come to, I can pop a little bit more. I think I'm going to but I'm not sure. We'll see. We're getting down there. I'm going to pop just a tiny bit more because I don't quite have enough. I pop just a little bit more. Now I'm going to finish filling this out. Just a little bit of popcorn left. So I'm going to put like small handful, make them equal amounts. Each of the containers so that I don't waste the popcorn. Small amount that I'm adding to each container is not really going to make a difference In the overall making up the popcorn. And then I will go ahead and away. When you do just a small amount like I did, you have a much smaller percentage of the popcorn popping. So try to get enough pop the first time. In our next lesson, we will be making the glaze that goes on the popcorn. 4. 04 Making The Glaze: I'm going to turn the heat to medium. And then in this path, I'm going to add the butter, the sugar, and the water. And we want to cook this until it comes to a boil. Obviously because I'm trying to get everything dissolved. I want to stir it. It's going to help express with the butter if I move it to different parts of the pen that at different temperatures to get it dissolved faster, want to hurry and get that butter melted, it's starting to boil on the edges. So we definitely want to get that butter melted. So we're stirring it to keep it from boiling. And we want to get that butter melt. The butter is pretty much melted. And when I stop stirring, you'll see the bubbles are starting to form on the edges, but we want it to boil all the way throughout. Now we see it as boiling. I'm going to turn the heat down. So we'll continue boil. And I wanted to boil up for three minutes, stirring in a little bit. So it doesn't boil over. But we do want it to be a constant boil. It starts to get too close to boiling over. I can just lift it up off the heat and it will go down. But it's not that close to an over yet. I'm just going to keep stirring it up while for the three minutes. Once the syrup is made, we're gonna divide it into three sections, put it in the fruit, and then we're going to stir it up and add it to the popcorn. And that will be in our next lesson. Combining the syrup with the freeze dried fruit. And then combining that with the popcorn, Right? It has been the three minutes. So now we're going to take it off to heat and mix it with. 5. 05 Mixing The Glaze and Popcorn: Here are three fruits. I want to try to evenly pour it into each one. So I'm just doing a little bit at a time. I can go back and add more more than that because I probably wouldn't need score. Now that I have that in there, would quickly stir syrup with the fruit. And at this point I really do need to work quickly so that when a stern in this woman. And let's do this one. Now. This one is strawberry and I want it to look a little better. So I am going to add just a tiny bit of red food coloring and then store that in and that'll hopefully give this more of that red. Now, what I wanna do is get this into that popcorn. Again, I'm trying to work fast because as you can see, this is the opinion that strap this around. So it's all coated with that. A little bit. You notice how nicely it's getting coded. Now let me get this one in here. This is the banana. Seems a little bit more solid. Maybe I should have done this 1 first. I don't know. This one of course is going to pretty much stay white and yellowish because it's the banana flavor. I quickly get the strawberry in this one. I want to get this mixed up as best I can. The popcorn is totally coated. Notice how nicely that mixed up, if we can get this banana flips up better. Now that I have them all three mixed up, I want to point them out onto this baking sheets to cool. And I don't want them mixed together yet. So I'm going to get this as close to single layer as I can so that it can call, swap it out. Do the same with the strawberry. I want to spread it out. It has cooled enough that I can somewhat touch it. We're going to do the same like the vanilla big blob of bananas. Going to spread it out. This is now going to sit for one hour and then we'll be able to combine it together. We'll be back with our next lesson of combining it together and getting it ready to eat in one hour. 6. 06 Drying on the Pan Mixing and Storage: Our popcorn has said over an hour, we're now ready to mix it up and get it ready. Pam, before I mixed up, I kinda wanna break apart any big chunks I have. I'm just going to all the flavors and breaking it apart. So I don't have any really huge. Now with the banana. I have a lot of big chunks of the banana. And I don't really want to take big bites of that. I'm also picking off or picking out some of these big chunks of the banana glaze with the blueberry. Again, just like with the strawberry, I'm breaking it apart so it's not big chunks so that when I mix them together, they will all mix together really nice. Once I have it all broken apart. I'm just going to mix it all together. I did spray my pen down Before I pick the song so that it wouldn't stick to the pan. Once I feel like I haven't pretty much mixed them together. I'll be ready to put it in a bowl. And I have my bowl right here. I'm just going to put this in the bowl. Then it's ready for your movie nights or whatever you want to server. And all these little tiny comes out of there and a lot of it's the banana. I'm just leaving it there. I don't want it in the bowl with big things. Here is our fruit flavored popcorn. 7. 07 Final Thoughts: Thank you for taking this class. We had fun making our fruity glazed popcorn. You first learned how to prepare the freeze dried fruit so that we could use it to season and color of popcorn. Next, we learned how to pop our popcorn with air Popper, and then how to divide it into three separate dishes. We learned how to make the glaze. And then we divide it the glaze and into the three different freeze dried fruit bowl and mix them up. We then combined each individual glaze with a bowl of popcorn and made the glaze popcorn up that fruit flavor. With that done, we then poured the popcorn out onto your baking sheet and got it as close to a single layer as we could. And then we let it set up for an hour. After the popcorn was setup. We came back and we broke up into smaller pieces. Then mixed our popcorn into April, ready to serve. I hope your popcorn turned out the way you planned it to. In my case, I don't know that I would do the banana one again, It tastes good, but the glaze didn't really come out the way I wanted it to. I would probably pick more berries or maybe Apple or whatever, but I probably wouldn't pick Banana again. Your project for this class though, is to make your own 3D popcorn. You can pick it as three flavors of freeze dried fruit. Or you can make just one flavor and use chances of the freeze dry fruit of the one flavor. If you did that, you would not need to divide the popcorn into separate balls or the freeze-dried food. The recipe for the glaze is on our project page. Please make sure you post a picture of your popcorn on our project page and let us know how it went. For my kitchen to your kitchen. Happy cooking.