Jalapeño Popper Popcorn Balls

By Rachel Farnsworth

Updated May 14, 2025

All the flavors of jalapeño poppers wrapped up in a fun and tasty popcorn ball. This is a funky, fun, flavorful treat and a great twist on your standard popcorn ball.

All the flavors of jalapeño poppers wrapped up in a fun and tasty popcorn ball. This is a funky, fun, flavorful treat and a great twist on your standard popcorn ball.

Cook Time: 20

Total Time: 20

Servings: popcorn balls

All the flavors of jalapeño poppers wrapped up in a fun and tasty popcorn ball. This is a funky, fun, flavorful treat and a great twist on your standard popcorn ball.

All the flavors of jalapeño poppers wrapped up in a fun and tasty popcorn ball. This is a funky, fun, flavorful treat and a great twist on your standard popcorn ball.

All the flavors of jalapeño poppers wrapped up in a fun and tasty popcorn ball. This is a funky, fun, flavorful treat and a great twist on your standard popcorn ball.

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Jalapeño Popper Popcorn Balls

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All the flavors of jalapeño poppers wrapped up in a fun and tasty popcorn ball. This is a funky, fun, flavorful treat and a great twist on your standard popcorn ball.

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Cook Time: 20

Total Time: 20

Servings: popcorn balls

All the flavors of jalapeño poppers wrapped up in a fun and tasty popcorn ball. This is a funky, fun, flavorful treat and a great twist on your standard popcorn ball.

Ingredients

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Instructions

Heat a large pot over medium heat. Add in the bacon and cook until bacon starts to get crispy, about 5 minutes. Add in jalapeño and cook 1 minute more.
Use a slotted spoon to remove the bacon and jalapeño from the bacon grease and place in a small mixing bowl. Reserve the bacon grease in the pan for popping the popcorn. Stir jalapeño and bacon together with cream cheese and cheddar cheese.
Pour popcorn kernels into pot. Cover and cook over medium heat until popcorn has pops. When popping slows down, remove popcorn from heat. Season with salt and toss with melted butter.
Form small cream cheese balls, about the size of a small grape. Drop into popcorn and roll, pressing popcorn into the cream cheese to stick and form a ball. Repeat until all of the cream cheese has been used up.
Refrigerate until ready to serve.

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Nutrition

Calories: 72kcal | Carbohydrates: 3g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 6g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Cholesterol: 15mg | Sodium: 69mg | Potassium: 31mg | Vitamin A: 160IU | Vitamin C: 0.7mg | Calcium: 9mg | Iron: 0.2mg

Course: Snack

Cuisine: American

Keyword: Jalapeño Popper Popcorn

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5 Comments

Alison Snead says:

September 29, 2017 at 11:49 am

This recipe looks amazingand I can’t wait to makeit for my family

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Liz @ iheartvegetables says:

January 20, 2016 at 3:02 am

I loooove popcorn! And I also love spicy things so I think I'd love these, even if I had to leave out the bacon 😉

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Kara says:

January 19, 2016 at 8:35 pm

I never would have thought of making a savory popcorn ball. But with bacon, jalapeños, and cheese, these sound incredible!

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Ashlee Marie says:

January 19, 2016 at 6:37 pm

Mmmmm savory popcorn! looks AMAZING!

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Aimee @ Like Mother Like Daughter says:

January 19, 2016 at 5:45 pm

This sounds so yummy! I love savory popcorn and this one sounds right up my alley!

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