This honey butter popcorn recipe is a family favorite that makes your next family movie night, snack or midnight treat even better. My family loves the sweetly salty taste of this buttered homemade popcorn recipe that can be made within minutes at home and packaged to share.

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Easy Honey Butter Popcorn Recipe

This recipes is sweet, salty, crunchy, and satisfying! Making this honey buttered popcorn is so easy you can even use bagged microwave popcorn.

Related: Make instant pot popcorn

This honey popcorn recipe has been in our family for years and by now the kids can make it without help.

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Ingredients Needed for Honey Popcorn Recipe

Popcorn (use a bag of plain microwavable popcorn – or make it on the stove top)
Plain or Popcorn Oil (Only if you pop on the stove)
1 stick of Butter
1/3 cup Honey

Tips for Making Honey Butter Popcorn Recipe

I personally like using salted butter because I like the salty flavor with the sweet.
I also like making my popcorn on the stove. It tastes longer, but I think the crunch is more pronounced.
Plus, if you use white kernels, you’ll have less kernels in your teeth. Sounds weird, but I seem to always get more yellow kernels in my teeth.

Video: How To Make Honey Butter Popcorn

This recipes is so easy to make and I promise you won’t regret it! Watch the video or read the instructions, it is super simple and delicious.

Directions To Make Honey Butter Popcorn

Step 1

Start with your popcorn. Make enough for a good sized bowl.

Step 2

In a small saucepan, melt the butter and honey together. Stir until it’s completely mixed together.

Step 3

Pour the hot mixture evenly over the popcorn. Mix the popcorn together with a few serving spoons so it evenly coats the popcorn.

Step 4

Serve warm and enjoy!

Recipe Note:

You can get crazy and use any flavored honey’s you like. Hot honey? Yes please!

Why We Love This Honey Popcorn Recipe

This honey popcorn is much healthier than say like caramel corn. You have still have sweet without the corn syrup or the refined sugar. It’s also a great alternative to plain popcorn too. Which is good, but this honey mixture is sweet and salty, yum! This easy popcorn recipe is my family’s favorite snack. Plus, it’s a great snack for movie time! It’ll quell that sweet tooth without too much sugar.

Have Leftover Honey Popcorn?

If you made your popcorn on the stove, you can keep any leftovers in an airtight container. It should still be good the next day. However, if you use microwave popcorn, there is a chance it’ll be soggy. The melted butter seems to work differently on microwave popcorn vs stove top popcorn. So I definitely suggest stove top plain popcorn for this fun recipe.

Yield: 2

Honey Butter Popcorn

Name: Honey Butter Popcorn
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 2
Ingredients: Popcorn (use a bag of plain microwavable popcorn – or make it on the stove top); Plain or Popcorn Oil (Only if you pop on the stove); 1 stick of Butter; 1/3 cup Honey

The most delicious Honey Butter popcorn you will ever eat! Sweet, salty, crunchy, it is perfection.

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 5 minutes

Additional Time 5 minutes

Total Time 15 minutes

Ingredients

Popcorn (use a bag of plain microwavable popcorn – or make it on the stove top)
Plain or Popcorn Oil (Only if you pop on the stove)
1 stick of Butter
1/3 cup Honey

Instructions

Start with your popcorn. Make enough for a good sized bowl.
In a small saucepan, melt the butter and honey together. Stir until it’s completely mixed together.
Pour the hot mixture evenly over the popcorn. Mix the popcorn together with a few serving spoons so it evenly coats the popcorn.
Serve warm and enjoy!