Springtime Muddy Buddies
There are so many reasons to make these springtime muddy buddies, most of all, they are simply delicious, crave worthy, cute as a button and they take less than 20 minutes.
Servings: 7 cups
Calories:
Ingredients
- 7 cup Chex's Cereal see blog notes
- 1 cup Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
- ½ cup Peanut Butter see substitution options in blog notes
- ¼ cup Butter
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 2 cups Powdered Sugar
- 10 oz Seasonal Candies (M&Ms, other seasonal candies) see blog notes
Instructions
- Measure out your Chex mix into a large bowl and set aside.
- In a small bowl, combine your chocolate chips, peanut butter and butter. Melt in the microwave for 1 minutes. Stir with a spoon, and if needed, add it back into the microwave in 30 second intervals until melted. Do not over heat.
- Once melted, stir in your vanilla extract.
- Add your chocolate mixture to your Chex.
- Stir to combine making sure the chocolate mixture is as evenly distributed as possible.
- Prepare a sheet-pan, lined with parchment paper. Set aside.
- In a gallon size ziplock bag add in your powdered sugar, add your chocolate mixture-covered cereal.
- Seal the bag closed tightly and shake. Shake until the cereal is coated in powdered sugar.
- Pour in your seasonal candies and give it another quick shake so that the candies are mixed into the muddy buddies
- Pour out on to the prepared sheet-pan to let it cool/set, about 15 minutes.Store in a clean ziplock bag or food safe-container on the counter.
