This week is Easter! I am headed to my mom's house with about 20 relatives and friends. I saw a bunch of posts for Bunny Bait. I decided to make my own, but with a base of puppy chow (muddy buddy or any other name you know it by) instead of popcorn and some of the other ingredients I have seen.
The thought was to make puppy chow, add some peanuts and pretzels for that salty sweet combination and then add some Easter m&m's for color. At Target, all I could find was some funny colored splattered m&m's that were huge. With no luck finding the regular Easter m&m's, I found some purple, yellow, pink and green sprinkles to add some color. Read the results for how well that went...
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| These are the bags I made to put the Easter Puppy Chow in to transport them to my mom's house. |
Recipe adapted from www.cooks.com - Chex Mix Puppy Chow
Ingredients
8 cups Chex cereal (I used 4 cups of Rice Chex and 4 cups of Corn Chex)
1 cup lightly salted cocktail peanuts
1 cup pretzel pieces
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/4 cup butter
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 cup powdered sugar
Add m&m's, sprinkles, etc as desired.
Directions
1. Place the Chex cereal, peanuts and pretzels into a large bowl.
2. Place the powdered sugar in a 1 Quart Ziploc bag
3. Place chocolate chips, peanut butter, butter and vanilla extract in a microwave safe bowl. Microwave for 40 seconds. Stir. Microwave for additional 20 second increments until all ingredients are smooth and mixed together.
4. Pour chocolate mixture over Chex mixture and make sure everything is fairly well coated with the chocolate mixture.
5. Place the chocolate/Chex mixture into the Ziploc bag with the powdered sugar. Make sure everything gets coated evenly.
6. Add m&m's, sprinkles or whatever else you would like add color to the mixture.
7. Lay final mixture out on wax paper to dry completely.
Results
- It did not matter how many sprinkles I added to the powdered sugar mixture, you could not see the color. I would highly recommend you use something like m&m's so that the color doesn't get lost in the powdered sugar.
- I did not have the Ziploc bags with a zip closure. I only had the ones you manually close. I made two batches and broke open the bags, twice! Given I didn't have the "good" bag, the powdered sugar did not coat the Chex mixture evenly which resulted in either really chocolately pieces or really powdery pieces. Lesson learned - make sure I have the gallon Ziploc bags with the zip closure.
