Recipe: Cheesy Popcorn Clouds
Here is the recipe for making Big Cook Little Cook's Cheesy Popcorn Clouds.
- 1 bag of plain or lightly salted popcorn
- Half a red onion, diced
- 3 big tomatoes, diced
- 1 handful of fresh coriander, finely chopped
- 1 lime, cut in half
- Splash of olive oil
- 100g cheddar cheese, grated
- Chopping board
- Cheese grater
- Spatula
- Baking tray
- Coloured paper or card
- Coloured pencils or crayons
- Scissors
- Lolly sticks
- Sticky tape
Method
Common allergens - Dairy (cheese)
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees °C/ gas mark 4
In a mixing bowl add the chopped tomato, red onion, lime juice, olive oil and chopped coriander. Mix together to make the tongue-tangling salsa.
Empty the bag of popcorn onto a baking tray and sprinkle with the grated cheese. Ask your grown-up to pop the tray in the oven for a few minutes until the cheese starts to melt.
Once the cheese has melted, ask your grown-up helper to take the tray out, because the oven will be hot, hot, hot. Leave to one side until it is cool to touch.
While the popcorn cools, you can make some weather decorations for the ‘Cheesy Corn Clouds’. Draw a yellow sunshine, a grey rain cloud or any other type of weather you can think of. Ask your grown-up helper to carefully cut the drawings out with a pair of scissors.
Place your bowl of salsa in the middle of a large plate, then with very clean fingers place the cheesy corn around it to look like clouds!
Stick the weather drawings onto lolly sticks with sticky tape and place them in the salsa bowl for weather-tastic decorations!