This super easy and sweet white chocolate and lemon Oreo popcorn is a perfect spring or summertime treat! Make it for an Easter gathering, spring potluck, or summer BBQ – it’s so simple to prep and so delicious!

Making white chocolate-covered popcorn is one of my most favorite sweet treats to make…ever. It is so easy to make, so easy to customize, and everyone LOVES it!

I love experimenting with different versions of it – there are just so many options you can make! I realized I needed a spring/summer-ish one to add to my recipe collection. This lemon Oreo one is the perfect solution!

If you’re looking for a yummy, casual lemon dessert recipe, you’ll love this one! I can’t wait to walk ya through how easy it is to make.

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How to Make White Chocolate Lemon Oreo Popcorn

Let’s get going with making this tasty popcorn! We’ll start with some of the basic things to have out on your counter.

Kitchen tools you’ll need:

Food chopper or processor (this is the one I’ve had for YEARS, and I LOVE IT.)
Large mixing bowl
Microwave-safe bowl (I used a cereal bowl)
Large baking/cookie sheet (the one and only type of cookie sheet I use for all of my baking)
Aluminum foil

Okie dokes! Let’s have some fun, shall we?!

Step 1: Crush lemon Oreos in food processor/chopper

Preface to the next two photos: I’ve looked everywhere on my computer, and I cannot find the photo I took of the lemon Oreos in my Ninja Food Prep! So, until I go get more lemon Oreos to snap another photo, I’m going to ask you to use your imagination and pretend like these gingersnaps from my White Chocolate Gingersnap Popcorn are, in fact, lemon Oreos.

You get the gist, right?

You just give the machine a few pulses and then you get some yummy crushed cookies out of it. 🙂

(Also, I love my Ninja. Cost me about $30 about 6 years ago when I needed to replace my blender, and it ended up replacing my super nice and expensive food processor, too, when it went out! I love this multipurpose thing!)

Step 2: Pop the microwave popcorn

Just do what you normally do when you pop a bag of popcorn! I always use the light butter version when I make my sweet popcorn. Perfect combo! 🙂

Step 3: Add popcorn to large mixing bowl

Two super easy & important tips for when you do this:

1) Before opening the popcorn bag and transferring it from the bag to the bowl, give the bag a little shake up and down a few times to get the hard kernels to the bottom of the bag.

2) Once you’ve shaken the bag up and down a few times, use your hand to scoop out the popcorn and add it to the bowl rather than just pouring the popcorn straight from the bag into the bowl. Does that make sense?

If the hard kernels get mixed in with the popcorn and coated with the white chocolate, they’re really hard to avoid when you’re eating it. And believe me, they’re NOT fun to bite down on.

Thankfully, following these two little steps is an easy way to minimize the ability for those unpopped kernels to escape the bag.

So, scoop out that popcorn and put it in a large bowl!

Step 4: Microwave the white chocolate (baking bark)

To do this, add the cubes of baking bark (white chocolate) to a microwave-safe bowl, microwave for about 40 seconds, stir, and then microwave again for another 40 seconds.

Stir again, and if you need to go one more round for it to get completely melted, go ahead and do so.

It is super, super important to follow that process for microwaving the chocolate if you want it to be really smooth when you add it to the popcorn. If you don’t microwave & stir in increments, it gets really clumpy for some reason!

Step 5: Pour the white chocolate onto the popcorn

Pour the white chocolate onto the popcorn and stir it around quite a bit to evenly coat the popcorn in the melted chocolate.

This recipe is SO easy. Little hands can definitely help make it!

Taking a Break for a Helpful Tip!

If you’re making this popcorn to share with more than just a few people, make at least 2-3 bags of popcorn & follow the above steps. If you have a really large mixing bowl, you can do this process all at once, but I usually pop a bag of popcorn, pour on the baking bark, stir it around, pour the covered popcorn onto a foil-lined baking sheet, and then repeat at least once or twice more.

I almost always make 3 bags of popcorn, because I’m usually making it to share with a group of people – either for a birthday party, a big potluck, or some kind of family gathering. This stuff goes fast because it’s so easy and fun to snack on! So, unless you’re just making it for you and a couple others to enjoy, make more than one bag!

Step 6: Pour white chocolate popcorn onto foil-lined baking sheet & then add crushed Oreos & sprinkles

Once you pour the white chocolate popcorn onto the foil-lined baking sheet, sprinkle the crushed Oreos all over, give it a little “stir” with a spatula, and then add more Oreos, stir, etc.

Just follow this until you’ve got the popcorn coated with the Oreos.

Then, top it off with some yellow sprinkles if you want (this helps make it look more “lemony” since the sprinkles add some color). Or, if you’re making this for a particular occasion, add different colored sprinkles to go along with the theme!

You can just see the flavor, can’t ya?!

Just a few ingredients, and yet SO. MUCH. FLAVOR.

Step 8: Allow popcorn to set

Now you want your white chocolate to harden, and you can do this one of two ways: the long way or the short way.

The long way is to just keep the pan of popcorn sitting out on your kitchen counter, assuming your house is room temperature (somewhere under 75ish degrees).

The short way is to put the pan in refrigerator.

I always, always, always opt for the shorter option. But, I’m impatient. So, you do what you want to do!

Step 9: Break apart and serve!

Once the white chocolate is fully set (i.e. hardened), you can easily break the popcorn apart and serve it up!

If you made it to serve later, you can just store it in a couple of gallon-sized Ziplock bags or in a really large plastic container and serve it when you’re ready.

This is a great make-ahead treat – you can make it, store it for a day or two, and then just toss it in a bowl whenever you’re ready to serve it.

White chocolate-covered popcorn is, hands down, one of the most frequent treats I make…it’s just a universally-enjoyed treat by all ages, I almost always have some ingredients on hand (the only essentials are white chocolate/baking bark & microwave popcorn…then you can just put any other add-ins you want to spruce it up a bit!), and you can customize it in just about any way you can think of for any occasion.

It’s just really fun.

And, since this popcorn is so easy and fun to customize, I’ve been working my way through the seasons on different variations. If you love this recipe and want to try out some other versions for different seasonal gatherings, you’re going to love these, too!

Summer: Easy S’mores White Chocolate Popcorn
Fall: 3-Ingredient Pumpkin Spice and White Chocolate Popcorn
Christmas: Easy White Chocolate Gingersnap Popcorn

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