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A Fast and Easy To Make Snack

For the upcoming Valentines Day holiday, I began looking for something I could make that would be a little festive, and most importantly: EASY! I had a little help in the kitchen tonight making banana chocolate chip muffins for my son’s class and these amazing Berry Cereal Snack Bars! These are both perfect recipes to have your kids help in the kitchen!

I have previously used this recipe with an old flavor of Cheerios I love that unfortunately is now discontinued. Hopefully they will bring the plain peanut butter back, but for now very berry and chocolate peanut butter are close seconds to my favorite flavor! I have found this recipe works great with almost any cereal. The best part is there is no measuring other than cutting some butter off the stick!

To begin with I melt the butter over medium heat in a large pot on the stove.

Once the butter is melted add in the marshmallows. Mini marshmallows tend to melt quicker and easier than full sized marshmallows from my experience. Stir the marshmallows continuously until they are completely melted. Remove the marshmallow mixture from the heat.

Dump in the whole box of cereal. If you like extra gooey cereal bars, I would recommend using approx 1/2-1 cup less cereal. Mix the cereal well into the marshmallow mixture until well covered.

Once cereal mixture is mixed into melted marshmallows pour into a 9x13 pan.

Pour the mixture into a greased 9×13 pan. Even out the mixture using a spatula sprayed in oil. You can also use butter for this, but oil works just as well. I prefer to use glass pans for my cereal snack bars similar to this one.

Wait for your cereal snack bars to cool and then cut them to the desired size. Store in an airtight container. They will keep for one week, if they last that long!

Ingredients For Cereal Snack Bars

3.5 Tablespoons Butter

1 10.4 Oz bag of mini marshmallows

1 10.9 Oz box cereal (Cheerios work well)

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Cereal Snack Bars

Cook Time15 mins

Servings: 12 Servings

Calories: 140kcal

Ingredients

3.5 Tbs Butter
10.4 Oz Bag Mini Marshmallows
10.9 Oz Box Cereal

Instructions

Melt butter over medium heat in large pot on the stove top.
Stir in mini marshmallows, continue string continuously until marshmallows are completely melted.
Remove marshmallow mixture from heat, dump in entire box of cereal.
Stir until cereal is completely covered by marshmallow mixture.
Transfer mixture to a well greased 9×13 pan. Smooth out mixture with a greased spatula.
Let cool completely before cutting into desired sized pieces. Keep in an airtight container.

Notes

Calories are calculated by a third party website and are based on ingredients used.

A Great Peanut Butter and Chocolate Classic

I can remember in grade school having a classmate bring in puppy chow as a snack for a special occasion and I had never heard of this amazing dessert and was just a little creeped out by the name— but that went away after my first bite! Fast forward to about 10 years ago and it became a staple for our family Christmas celebrations! I had personally never made it, but set inclined to try since I missed out on our puppy chow amazingness at Christmas this year somehow!

So I did some research and decided I’m going to make a big batch and take some to someone who’s had a bad week this week along with saving some for some treats for us!

Tips and Tricks

I have always been a fan of putting extra vanilla in my recipes. Adding extra vanilla to this recipe adds a little smoother flavor than others I’ve had in the past. This is something you could reduce if you want. I also used semi sweet chocolate chips instead of milk chocolate chips to prevent the puppy chow from being overly sweet— the powdered sugar makes it sweet enough for me!

How To Make The Puppy Chow

I started with a box of chex mix dumped into a large bowl. Then use a microwave safe glass measuring container and combined the semi sweet chocolate chips, peanut butter, butter, and vanilla. I put this in the microwave to melt on the melt chocolate function for 8oz and it was the perfect amount of time. You can also use melt the chocolate mixture on medium power for one minute intervals stirring in between.

After the chocolate mix is melted I poured it over chex cereal. Then mixed it well until all the cereal was well covered. After the cereal was well covered pour in 1/3 of the powdered sugar and mixed it well before adding in the remaining 2 cups of the powdered sugar. This will coat the chex mixture completely.

After the mix is well coated in powdered sugar, transfer it out of the mixing bowl to an airtight storage container. Puppy chow will keep for at least a week— if it lasts that long around your house!

Puppy Chow Ingredients

12 oz box of chex mix

2 cups semi sweet chocolate chips

1/2 cup butter

1 1/4 cup peanut butter

2 1/2 teaspoons vanilla

3 cups powdered sugar

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Puppy Chow To Feed A Crowd

A great recipe combining chocolate and peanut butter to make a fantastic party mix.

Prep Time15 mins

Cooling Time1 hr

Total Time1 hr 15 mins

Servings: 25 servings

Calories: 311kcal