Guess what today is? A very special day to indulge in Maple Pumpkin Popcorn & to celebrate Lisa Thiele (With Style and Grace). Today is her virtual baby shower! A bunch of blogger pals have collaborated to throw her a virtual baby shower. Ready to feast your eyes? Hopefully you can whip up your own bowl of popcorn to celebrate with us!
Before we get started making this popcorn let me give you a taste of what you are creating here. Picture this: caramel corn meets a nutty brittle. This popcorn is all natural and maple sweetened. Nuts add some salty crunch and I tossed it all with some lightly salted puffy white popcorn to balance everything out. Like this…
Baby showers are so fun aren’t’ they?! Celebrating with friends and family about the upcoming arrival of a sweet baby is one of life’s greatest joys. I met Lisa two summers ago at the evo ’11 conference. We had been friends online and hit it off for reals right away. We enjoyed early morning chat sessions & long talks on the treadmill at the Canyons Resort in Park City, Utah.
A super fun time. We re-connected this spring at beautiful Redwood Hill Farm. We both have gobs in common and I am so happy to celebrate her almost here baby boy!
Lisa, I designed this invite for you. Hope you like it…I have a little boy too and he is the love of my life (so is his sister) My little guy is 5 now, but will ALWAYS be my baby boy! Where the time goes I have not a clue, but I love watching my kids grow.
I created this fall flavored popcorn recipe for your shower because it is simple to prepare, is gluten free, really healthy and I thought you would enjoy it too. Popcorn is great all the time. I packed this on hikes I took in Telluride this week. I added a few extra nuts to it and made it more of a trail mix.
Make it as nutty or not nutty as you want.
This popcorn can easily be:
- Trail Mix
- Pre or post workout snack
- Dessert
- Yogurt Parfait topping (you really need to try this)
- Oatmeal Topping (yes!)
- Cereal ~ serve with milk!
- Shower, Party food
I really had this with milk and pretended it was a breakfast cereal. I mean why not, right?
So you can just munch this popcorn out of hand ~ or experiment with playful ideas.
I am sure you all ready figured that I have a Popcorn board on Pinterest too. You will LOVE all of the popcorn recipes over there.
Click HERE for recipe details.
Popcorn Recipe Links
- Eat. Drink. Love. Apple Cinnamon Popcorn
- Virtually Homemade Caramel Apple Popcorn
- Cheap Recipe Blog Chicago Popcorn
- I Wash, You Dry Muddy Buddy Popcorn
- Real Food. Real Deals. Pumpkin-Glazed Popcorn
- Healthful Pursuit Vegan Caramel Popcorn Ant Hills
Baby Shower Bloggers
- A Thought For Food | Scalloped Potato Gratin
- Bev Cooks | Kale and Sage Pesto Crostini with Roasted Veggies
- Turntable Kitchen | Maple-Olive Oil Granola with Cocoa Nibs, Hazelnuts and Cherries
- Yes I Want Cake | Carrot Cake Cupcakes
- MarlaMeridith.com | Maple Pumpkin Spice Popcorn
- What’s Gaby Cooking | Chocolate Dipped Meringues
- Two Peas and a Pod | Vegetable Quinoa Soup
- Foodie Crush | Crab Salad Sweet Potato Chip Bites
- Simple Bites | Maple Pumpkin Pie
- Three Many Cooks | Chocolate-Peanut Chex Mix
- Shutterbean | Tiny Chicken Taquitos
- Heather Christo Cooks | Butternut Squash Bacon Scones
- Eat Live Run | Salted Caramel Chocolate Cookie Bars
- Aggies Kitchen | Iced Apple Cinnamon Tea
- Reluctant Entertainer | Mascarpone Marmalade Bites
- Eat the Love | Roasted White Chocolate Berry Tart (Gluten Free)
73 Comments
Virtual baby shower, how awesome! And some lovely ladies that are contributing, too. What a great idea. Thanks for including my popcorn balls in the mix. I absolutely love the idea of adding pumpkin spice to popcorn. Will definitely be doing that next time I make a batch! Enjoy your day, Marla 🙂
This looks perfect Marla, I know Lisa would love it! Thanks for coordinating and including me in Lisa’s special day!
Do I have to share this popcorn? This is one serving right? 😀 ha! Looks deeelish!
You had me at “popcorn!” Looks amazing! Lisa is a lucky girl, what a fun shower.
What a lovely gluten-free treat for Lisa! Love this recipe! Thanks for cohosting! 🙂
Waaaaaant thiiiiiis.
How sweet of you all to gather for a virtual baby shower! This popcorn looks to-die-for!!
Fantastic recipe and photography as usual, Marla! Thanks for hosting the shower. Lisa is going to love it! xo
Sandy, so happy you could join in on the fun!!
Perfect shower treat! Wish I could grab a handful:)
Maria, wish we could all REALLY be together today eating popcorn and everything else!
What a fun shower for Lisa! Glad you all were able to coordinate something for her. You are so good about that stuff, Marla!
And this popcorn…maple-pumpkin-spice + Popcorn. That is so me!
Hi Averie, so wish we could have met up today ~ would have brought you some popcorn!
This looks absolutely fantastic! And thank you for linking my popcorn recipe!
You do know that popcorn is my absolute weakness! 🙂 I’m still speechless. Feels like just yesterday we were planning Maria’s virtual baby shower. It’s been such a pleasure getting to know you, Marla. Thank you so very much for co-hosting and creating THE coolest invites! I’m all about grey these days – even painted the nursery grey 🙂 Thank you, thank you!!
Yay! Lisa, I am so happy we could all surprise you with this. Wishing you the best in the upcoming weeks. Can’t wait to meet your baby boy 🙂
You did a stellar job on the invite…next time I have a baby, I’m calling YOU. Also, I’d like this popcorn for lunch PUHLEEZE.
This looks absolutely amazing. I’ve been loving homemade popcorn lately! But this flavor combo!? I’m doin’ it. 🙂
Also, just thought I’d mention that the year is 2012, not 2013 😉
Pumpkin, maple and popcorn is such a great combination!
Thanks for the popcorn shout out Marla. This pumpkin version looks amazing.
This popcorn looks irresistible!
I’m eating popcorn right now! This looks amazing Marla, and as usual, gorgeous photos. I just want to reach out and grab a handful!
Thanks so much Alisa. You just reminded me that I need to tag this popcorn as vegan & dairy free too!
What a fun way to celebrate Lisa’s baby boy! Love this recipe and am going to make this for all my boys!
Hi Jeanette! That sounds like a great idea. Thanks for stopping over to say hello 🙂
I like how much you focus on making each shot look so creative with all the props and angles! Amazing…love the flavors of maple infused popcorns.
This looks sooo addicting!
I love popcorn. In fact, my partner AJ and I are utterly obsessed with it, and the combination of maple and popcorn is a winner in my book!
Wow Marla, this is simply a great one!!!! 😀 Frankly speaking I can’t wait to go for them as soon as possible. Too good.
They look fantastic!! Love the addition of roasted pecans!! A healthy snack that one will easily get addicted. 😉
I gotta agree with you. The lightly salted roasted pecans really make all the difference!
Ooo, love those fall flavors!
looks great Marla! I had popcorn on my brain this week too. Miss you and hope you’re well
This is stunning, Marla! Popcorn is a favorite snack of mine!
Perfect party food! I could make a whole bowl of this yumminess disappear!
Hi Liz! It was hard to practice self control when this came out of the oven ~ another bonus is your house will smell amazing when you bake it!
Yum, that looks delicious!
This looks fantastic. Can it be stored overnight with the “white” popcorn in there?
It can, just be sure to store in a cool/dry place.
This looks sooo good! I wanted to let you know that I featured this yesterday in my “What I Bookmarked This Week” post – stop by and see!
flavored popcorn is my favorite Marla- what a great variety!
Ooooo…this looks fabulously delicious, and so pretty, too!
Such a great invite design, Marla! And that popcorn looks addictive.
Popcorn is my absolute favorite snack. Adding maple syrup and pumpkin sounds amazing. Great idea.
As I work, alone, all day today, I so wish I had a big bowl of this to keep me company. Yummy stuff, Marla!
Fall is here, bring on the pumpkin. Great ideas for how to use the popcorn as trail mix, yogurt parfait topping or as a cereal. I’ll have to try this!
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this sounds like a real winner!! yum 🙂
how come none of the comments never show? it says there are 50 but not one shows anywhere on this page?? i like to see what others say sometimes! thanks (ps you’ll have to email the answer since i wont be able to see this post!!)
Sorry about that Cindy ~ I was in an all day photography workshop & could not access my computer.
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