The other day I was sitting around, tweeting about how I was thinking about having ice cream for dinner. I mean let’s be honest, there have been been several times in my life when I have had ice cream for dinner. I had ice cream for dinner as recently as two weekends ago. It had cherries in it. That means it’s health food.
Anyway…
Jen suggested that cake and popcorn would also be great dinner options.
In my mind I was all like, “oooh cake! oooh popcorn! oooh popcorn shaped into a cake!”
End of riveting story.
If you live in one of those neighborhoods where kids come ’round trick-or-treating, that’s great. I live in an apartment building and no one rings our buzzer on Halloween unless we’ve ordered a pizza. But if you live in one of those nice neighborhoods or nice buildings where kids come waltzing up to your door in search of goodies, and it also happens to be a neighborhood in which parents will let their kids eat a homemade treat that you’ve dropped into their bag (wait, where are you living? The 1950s?) then I suggest wrapping up some cake slices for those little masked beggars.
Or do what I do and eat three slices while watching hours upon hours of college football.
Peanut Butter Popcorn Cake
Popcorn adapted from Taste of Home
Makes roughly 15 servings
Printable recipe
Ingredients:
- 8 cups popped popcorn
- 1 cup salted peanuts
- 1 cup pretzel pieces
- 3/4 cup vegan refined sugar
- 3/4 cup light corn syrup
- 3/4 cup all natural peanut butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Frosting ingredients:
- 1/2 cup Earth Balance Natural Buttery Spread, room temperature
- 2/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 3 cups vegan powdered sugar
- 1/3 cup vanilla coconut milk
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
I would ring your doorbell just to get a slice of this! It looks fantastic
I was wondering if people let their kids accept homemade treats on Halloween, I’m going to make some and see what happens.
This is pure genius. I’m so making this for the weekend. No particular reason – just for myself! lol.
I love seeing what amazing and quirky food you post, it really helps me get through the work day!
HOLY SHIAT. This is the most incredible cake I’ve ever seen. GENIUS! I think I’m going to have to make a mini version of this tonight.
That looks so good; I’d never think of it myself, but it seems so obvious now!
out of my half-asses guess of what to make for dinner you came up with THIS?!?!?!?!? You are a freaking baking mad scientist. For reals.
I eat quite often 2 caramel rice cakes with peanut butter slathered in the middle, this is like a ginat version of this WITH CHOCOLATE!!!! I’m not kidding, it maybe the hormones, but I want to pick this up with my hands and eat it like a giant popcorn/cake sandwich.
Oh boy,
I gotta try this one.
No way! This is so awesome! I definitely have to try making something like this for my friends Halloween party this year. Cheers!
Flourless AND vegan? Health food. Definitely. Plus, can’t we count popcorn as a vegetable? I think so…brilliant!
OH MY GOSH. Can I just come and live with you?
What a fabulous idea!
This cake looks INSANE! Fo’ real. I also like that it’s a no-baking necessary cake being I can’t bake if my life depended on it.
WOW – this looks SOOO good to me right now! Too bad I’m on a sugar free cleanse… wa wa wa :/ Great Recipe though perhaps once I have cleansed I can eat this at a treat!
Before stumbling upon this blog I usually ate my popcorn with simply adding a mix of powdery flavor such as cheese or salt but thanks to this it gave me another way of enjoying my popcorn. Thanks!
this is all kinds of amazing!
i’m really hoping for a last minute halloween party to manifest itself this weekend so that i can make and bring this.
Oh my goodness, this sounds and looks amazing. What an interesting idea for dessert – or lunch, snack, dinner….
Seriously? SERIOUSLY! This is SO much better than eating peanut butter straight out of the container for dinner (which is what I ate yesterday) or ice cream (which I ate two nights ago)… so much for being healthy this week! lol
I love all the things used in this cake. Therefore, I love this. And even better, it’s vegan!!!
I think this might just be the most original and delicious-looking cake I have seen in a long time! It would be fun to make little popcorn cupcakes also- perfect for trick-or-treaters.
IT was GREAT except it turned out way to hard may have let it boil to long. Any help as to why?
Oh no! I should have been more specific in the directions, it should be removed from heat the second it starts to boil. I’ll revise it now, thank you and sorry!
This looks amazinggggg! I love, love, love your blog and recipes.
This looks amazing! So, so unhealthy, but kind of light and very rich at the same time? I need to try this!
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