Popcorn treats: Five spots in Mumbai to relish popcorn-infused desserts

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Explore a tonne of delicious popcorn flavours from chilli cheese to pani puri, cream and onion, pudina and more at this SoBo joint.
At: Shams Fast Food Centre, Charni Road.
Cost: Rs 50 onwards

Cookies and popcorn

Pizookie Bazookie, the dessert pizza comes with a chocolate chip cookie base, vanilla ice cream, and caramelised popcorn. Sweet and salty is easily our favourite flavour combination.
At: Lil Gamby, Sangrila Vaibhav, 14th Road, Khar West.
Cost: Rs 355

The perfect combination

Pop-star cocktail comes with salted caramel wild turkey popcorn bourbon, orange bitters, and a dark chocolate bark. You can't go wrong with the caramel notes of flavoured popcorn and bourbon.
At: Tango Tamari, Juhu Tara Road, Juhu.
Cost: Rs 850 (plus taxes)

Get quirky with it

The Pop-Kaun? cocktail gets a fun twist with Ketel One, the Badmaash spiced popcorn syrup, fresh passion fruit syrup, and topped with sparkling wine. It's served with its own bar snack - a garnish of cheese popcorn and passion fruit.
At: Badmaash, Kamala Mills, Lower Parel; Veera Industrial Estate, Andheri West.
Cost: Rs 700 (plus taxes)

The classic
Candies' Christmas menu addition, the caramel popcorn milkshake, retains its popularity post the festive season and is still available.
At: Candies, Pali Hill, Bandra West.
Cost: Rs 263

Lemon popcorn
This is a super simple recipe with clean and classic flavour profiles. Once you try this, you might not want to go back to any other flavours of popcorn," Pearl Henriques shares.

Ingredients
>> 1 pack of unflavoured popcorn or popcorn kernels >> 2 spoons of butter
>> ½ lemon >> Pinch of sea salt

Method
Pop the kernels in a cooker or the microwave with some butter. Transfer it to a bowl, squeeze lemon over it and sprinkle it with
sea salt.

Pearl Henriques, founder, Pinch of Salt

Pop quiz
Did you know that the largest popcorn ball ever created was in 2016 at the Noble Popcorn plant in Sac City, Iowa? As recorded on popcorn.org, the ball, that stood over eight feet tall, was made from 5,000 kilograms of popcorn and had a diametre of 12 feet.