Deep dish pizza, hot dogs, and Twinkies…sure, a lot of iconic foods have come out of Chicago. If you ask me, nothing rivals Chicago Mix Popcorn. Half cheese, half caramel; it’s addictive stuff. And lucky for us it’s easy to replicate with just a few ingredients and a bundt pan. It’s a sweet (and salty!) treat to bring to a friend that may be missing their hometown.
Print recipe
Pin recipe
Prep pan
Ingredients
- 10 tbsp unsalted butter
- 20 oz mini marshmallows
- 10 oz chewy Werthers caramels
- 3/4 tsp salt
- Enough cheesy popcorn to fill bundt pan
Instructions
Instructions for the Filling
Step 1
Prepare your bundt pan by lining it with cling wrap. Set aside.
Step 2
Add marshmallows, butter, cut-up caramels, and salt in a large pot over medium heat. Stir continuously.
Step 3
Once everything is melted and mixed, remove from heat and add the cheesy popcorn. Continue mixing until thoroughly blended.
Step 4
Pour the popcorn mixture into the prepared bundt pan. Spray a small amount of cooking spray onto your clean hands and gently press the mixture into the pan. Be careful not to press it too tightly into the pan or you may crush the popcorn. Try to make sure that it’s evenly distributed so that when you invert the bundt it sits evenly.
Step 4
Enjoy!
More sweet recipes
Pistachio Bundt Cake with Pistachio Ganache
The key to this cake is to keep the actual cake as simple as possible because you will cry for at least twenty minutes while making the pistachio ganache. It’s that horrible to make, but it’s also really worth it, and if you ask me, the salt from your tears really...
Cherry Pie Bundt
Don’t get me wrong, I have fully bundted a pie before (I did a pumpkin pie bundt for this past thanksgiving) but the idea of a cherry pie bundt just seems dense and bland and counterproductive to getting coworkers to like me. And yeah, this is definitely more of a...
Wanut Crunch Bundt
The Walnut Crunch. It was more than just a Tim Hortons donut, it was a lifestyle. Chocolate. Walnuts. Glaze; nothing wrong there (unless you’re allergic to walnuts…hi again, Meaghan). Sadly, the Walnut Crunch met the same fate as the Dutchie: an early death. This cake...
Pumpkin Pie Bundt Cake
Sometimes life presents you with challenges. Like when you’re known as the girl that bundts things and you’re asked to bring a pumpkin pie to thanksgiving dinner. I mean, did you really think you were going to get a standard pumpkin pie, Shauna? Of course not. You...
Chinese Sesame Ball Bundt Cale
Chinese Sesame Balls are chewy, the perfect amount of sweet, and the sesame seeds give them the best crunch. They’re almost the perfect snack. But let’s face it, deep frying is equal parts intimidating, a hassle, and it makes your house smell like the fair days later....
Gulab Jamun Bundt
To know gulab jamun is to love them. Individually the ingredients are powerhouses, but combined they are unstoppable. Like the dessert version of the 1990's Chicago Bulls. That makes Pippen the cardamom, Jordan the rose water, and Rodman the, well, nuts. But deep...
Chocolate Peanut Butter Bundt Cake
Because peanut butter and chocolate go together like Ross and Rachel, like Thelma and Louise, and like Harry and Sally (and yes, I’ll have what she’s having if she’s having peanut butter and chocolate). This cake is soooo good. I make it all the time and everyone...
Butterscotch Bundt Cake
This is hands down the best butterscotch bundt cake I have ever made. Fine, fine, fine, it’s the only butterscotch bundt cake I have ever made, but it’s so good I don’t have to try another recipe. If you like butterscotch, and who the heck doesn’t, the addition of a...
Strawberry Shortcake Bundt with Cream Cheese Filling
You just can’t beat this strawberry shortcake recipe. Actually, that’s not true, you have to beat it twice (the whipped cream and then cream cheese filling). There are four elements to this cake, but you can make the cake and the cream cheese filling in advance....