Muddy Buddy Chex Mix Recipe (aka Puppy Chow!) (2024)

The kids will love this chex muddy buddies recipe – it's just six ingredients and positively fool proof and totally addictive!

Chex Mix Muddy Buddy Recipe

We love to make this traditional Chex Mix recipe at our house, but it's always fun to also make these Chex Mix Muddy Buddies! (aka Puppy Chow) I mixed up a batch over the weekend, and my little family was oh-so-happy.

Literally within less than 12hours the batch was devoured (everyone ate a handful while I made it, again for dessert, and had a wee bit more for breakfast.)If you've got company coming go ahead and make a double batch, and enjoy!

Muddy Buddy Ingredients:

• 9 cups Corn Chex®, Rice Chex®, Wheat Chex® or Chocolate Chex® cereal (or combination) – we used Rice Chex!
• 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
• 1/2 cup peanut butter
• 1/4 cup butter or margarine
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar

How to Make Muddy Buddies:

1. Melt chocolate chips, peanut butter & butter on high for one minute, stir.
2. Microwave another 30 seconds (or more) until mixture is smooth when stirred.
3. Add vanilla.
4. Place cereal in large bowl.
5. Pour chocolate mixture over cereal, stirring until well coated (but be careful not to crush the cereal!)
6. Add cereal & chocolate mixture to large plastic bag (2 gallon or larger is best)
7. Then add powdered sugar and shake until cereal is completely covered.
8. Enjoy!

I also packaged today's Muddy Buddy Chex Mix to give out to our garbage collectors tomorrow, so one more person marked off my list this year. Whew!

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Need an easy supper tonight too? I also made these Stuffed Spinach Shells in my slow cooker while on live, and I think it's going to work perfectly! I literally boiled the shells in my Ninja and baked the shells in the same pot after preparing them too.

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We love traditional Chex Mix at our house, but it's always fun to also make these Chex Mix Muddy Buddies!

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