This Peanut Butter Chocolate Cheerios Chex Muddy Buddies recipe is sponsored.
Last year, I canceled Christmas. My grandma had passed a few weeks before, and I just wasn’t in the mood to celebrate anything. We didn’t put up a tree, I didn’t send out Christmas cards, and the only gifts I bought were for our parents and Pete’s nephews.
This year, we are absolutely making up for it. We got our tree (our first real one!) today, hung lights, and put out decorations. To kick off the season, we went with my parents to our town’s tree lighting. On the drive home, my mom said she really felt like she was in the Christmas spirit. So Pete and I decided it would be a great idea to invite my parents back to our house for a snack and a Christmas movie.
They agreed — so I decided to make Peanut Butter Chocolate Cheerios Chex Muddy Buddies for us to share.
Have you had Muddy Buddies yet? Oh my gosh, they’re amazing. I had seen them before and always expected them to be overly sweet. Nope. They are the perfect amount of sweetness. Almost too perfect because you don’t want to stop eating it!
Peanut Butter Chocolate Cheerios Chex Muddy Buddies Recipe
Peanut Butter Chocolate Cheerios Chex Muddy Buddies Ingredients:
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1/2 stick butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 9 cups Rice Chex or Corn Chex cereal
- 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 3 cups Chocolate and Peanut Butter Cheerios cereal
- 32 mini peanut butter cups, unwrapped, cut in half
- 1 cup salted peanuts
How To Make Peanut Butter Chocolate Cheerios Chex Muddy Buddies:
Melt the chocolate chips, peanut butter, and butter in the microwave on high for 30 seconds. Stir. Heat for another 30 seconds and stir until it is combined. Stir in the vanilla.
Completely cover the Rice or Corn Chex cereal with the chocolate mixture.
Pour the cereal mixture in a large plastic bag. Pour the powdered sugar on top and shake until the cereal is completely coated.
Add the Chocolate and Peanut Butter Cheerios cereal, mini peanut butter cups, and peanuts to the bag with the cereal mixture. Shake until it is all mixed up.
Serve.
What’s amazing — and sort of surprising to me — is you can serve this right away. You wouldn’t think so because of the melted chocolate mixture. I actually expected it to need to cool before we could grab handfuls of it. But actually, once the powdered sugar sticks to the cereal, you can grab a handful of this Peanut Butter Chocolate Cheerios Chex Muddy Buddies without making a mess.
This was the perfect holiday movie snack. It was easy to make and makes a lot, so it’s a great snack to bring with you to any holiday parties you might be invited to this year.
Peanut Butter Chocolate Cheerios Chex Muddy Buddies Variations:
You can definitely experiment with this Peanut Butter Chocolate Cheerios Chex Muddy Buddies recipe to cater it to your tastes.
Change the peanuts for pecans, walnuts, or cashews.
Instead of mini peanut butter cups, use Reese’s pieces or M&M’s.
If you can’t find the Chocolate and Peanut Butter Cheerios cereal in your local stores, you can use any other version of Cheerios that you prefer.
Swap the semisweet chocolate chips for white almond bark, then build your flavors around that change.
Purchase Chex Mix Muddy Buddies:
If you don’t want to go through the effort of making this, you can purchase Chex Mix Muddy Buddies at the stores listed below, plus (possibly) at your local grocery store via Instacart.
Peanut Butter Chocolate Cheerios Chex Muddy Buddies: Frequently Asked Questions
There’s no difference between Puppy Chow and Muddy Buddies. They’re the same treat. The difference in name usually comes based on where you live (like the difference between soda and pop).
Personally, I prefer to call this Muddy Buddies solely based on the fact that Puppy Chow sounds like a treat for dogs.
Muddy Buddies taste like a really sweet cereal with a bit of a crunch thanks to the nuts. The powdered sugar adds a lot of sweetness to this recipe without making your hands covered in sugar.
You don’t taste peanut butter as a dominant flavor, but you do know it’s there. You do, however, taste the chocolate.
There are a lot of ingredients in this Muddy Buddies recipe, but they all go perfectly well together.
Peanut Butter Chocolate Cheerios Chex Muddy Buddies
Peanut Butter Chocolate Cheerios Chex Muddy Buddies is the perfect recipe to satisfy your sweet and salty craving.
Ingredients
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1/2 stick butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 9 cups Rice Chex or Corn Chex cereal
- 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 3 cups Chocolate and Peanut Butter Cheerios cereal
- 32 mini peanut butter cups, unwrapped, cut in half
- 1 cup salted peanuts
Instructions
- Melt the chocolate chips, peanut butter, and butter in the microwave on high for 30 seconds. Stir. Heat for another 30 seconds and stir until it is combined. Stir in the vanilla.
- Completely cover the Rice or Corn Chex cereal with the chocolate mixture.
- Pour the cereal mixture in a large plastic bag. Pour the powdered sugar on top and shake until the cereal is completely coated.
- Add the Chocolate and Peanut Butter Cheerios cereal, mini peanut butter cups, and peanuts to the bag with the cereal mixture. Shake until it is all mixed up.
Nutrition Information
Yield
15Serving Size
1Amount Per Serving Calories 537Total Fat 29gSaturated Fat 13gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 13gCholesterol 16mgSodium 326mgCarbohydrates 66gFiber 4gSugar 41gProtein 10g
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