I used to make this years ago, but lost my recipe. I've been looking for it forever! Thanks so much - I'm making a batch tonight.

So yummy! my neighbor and I made like 10 batches of all different flavors of jello. Then we mixed it all in a big tub and put them in snack size baggies to give out at Halloween. With all the different colors they looked great! Did learn a lot after so many batches: use half the butter and only 1/2 cup of sugar instead of 3/4 cup. Let the mixture come to a boil and then boil for 4 minutes STIRRING OFTEN! This was easier than dealing with the candy thermometer for me. This will be a family tradition and I can't wait until my girls are old enough to help make this with me!

This is a fun recipe! I reduced the margarine to 1/2 cup and took MTEDWARDS advice to just let the whole thing boil (keep stirring) for 4 min, then remove from heat and add 1/2 tsp soda. Much easier than messing with a candy thermometer. Oh ya, I also upped the popcorn to about 20 cups, so that it wasn't so sickenly sweet. Still lots of flavor and it turned out nice and crispy.

The taste is just how I remember it, but the popcorn turned out a little soggy. I had it in a 250* oven at 30 minutes as suggested, but I think next time I'm going to try it as listed in the directions. Hopefully, it will turn out crunchy!

I have been looking for a recipe like this. I made some today and this is the best recipe so far. I did cut back on the butter and it turned out great.

I LOVE this recipe! It is always a favorite around Halloween and Christmas! All the flavors are good. Although, the grape didn't turn out as well as I had hoped. It looked gray and didnt have a real grape taste.

I kind of had a kitchen disaster with this recipe. It was not the recipe's fault, just simple human error. Great Recipe to try FOR your kids, NOT WITH YOUR KIDS. You have to bring this to a boil, and you don't want little ones standing in the way when your moving around a 250 degree pot of liquid.

Very good. I changed the butter & sugar also. I also baked at 250 for 30 min, stirring once. Do not use sugar-free jello - it doesn't work.

I used a bag of lite (works best for flavored popcorns) microwave popcorn, I cut the butter in half & only used 1/2 cup of sugar. I didn't keep the popcorn warm as I didn't see the point since it was to be heated again. I just left these in clusters...the grands really liked them...thanks!

My kids really enjoyed this recipe, especially since they were able to choose their favorite flavor of jello! I did cut the amount of butter in half and it worked fine. Next time I am going to try to cut back a little on the sugar as well (I found it to be really sweet, although my kids did not complain about this...what a surprise!). We plan to make two batches at Christmas - one flavored strawberry and the other lime, and mix them together. I'm sure the red and green popcorn will be a hit at Christmas parties! Thanks for the recipe!

I think this recipe is excellent, although I did change some things due to other readers suggestions. I only used a half a cup plus about a tablespoon of butter, and when I turned off the heat I added about a quarter to a half a teaspoon of baking soda. I also baked it at 250 degrees for about a half hour stirring in between. Turned out great!

Awesome-- I had never tried any recipe like this before! It will make my 2nd graders class very happy=)

This recipe was very cool we had a lot of fun making it. I modified a little bit and only used 1/3 c butter and I did not roll into balls instead I lightly mixed th epopcorn with the sugar mix and the peices got partially coated. It was great just like the flavored popcorn at the mall. One note though, I live in a very humid area and by mid-day the popcorn all started to melt together. Dry days would be best for this treat.

I used only half the butter called for in the recipe (good thing since I wound up eating almost all of it in one day)! It worked just fine, and next time I am going to try cutting back on the sugar. I made green "Shrek" popcorn, and my 6 year old loved it. We sprinkled it with green colored sugar for a little extra "sparkle." Thanks Grandma Berthie, for this fun party recipe!!

I was totally new to the idea of making flavored popcorn so I tried a few different recipes. I tried this one, the Kraft Gelatin-based Recipe (on their website), and a traditional crunchy candy coated popcorn recipe available searching the web. This one was the least to our liking. This project is messy, so in my opinion I would opt for the one that produces the best result for the work involved. To me that is a crunchy popcorn kernel with wonderful custom flavor. Gelatin-based recipes tasted, well, gelatinous. THey were gooey, gummy, and stick-in your teeth tacky. The traditional candymaking version which included making a candy coating (sugar, butter, corn syrup, flavored oil) removing the mixture from the heat to add baking soda, coating the popcorn, baking for an hour and stirring periodically produced exactly what I expected. The result was crispy, crunchy, sweet flavored kernels that could be easily broken up before storing. It was just like opening a box of crunchy cracker jacks or Poppycock, except the recipe yielded loads and loads for very little money. To sum up, there are much better recipes out there. This gets two stars for initially peaking my interest in the item and helping to educate me on the process of making my own addictive popcorn snacks, but I won't be using it again.

Sorry, but this was nasty.....next time I will dye the butter or something for regular popcorn balls.

This recipe called for WAY too much butter. Traditional popcorn ball recipes call for very little or no butter, so I was really surprised when this one called for so much. You figure that you have to put in 1 cup of butter for only 10 popcorn balls, that's a ton of butter per serving. I tried it anyway, and they were so buttery that they were unedible. I think I will try the recipe again, but with more corn syrup (to make them stick together better) and a whole lot less butter.