Recipe: Puppy Chow (aka Muddy Buddies)

Infinitely better than that Muddy Buddies crap you can buy premade at the store.

• 1 stick of butter
• 1 C. peanut butter
• 1 bag (12 oz) chocolate chips
• a splash of vanilla
• 1 box of Chex
• powdered sugar

1. Melt butter, peanut butter, chocolate, and vanilla together.

2. Stir in Chex (I usually use a little less than a whole box--I used a whole box this time and it ended up being too much Chex--the cereal to chocolate/PB ratio was off), coating it well in the chocolate/PB mixture.

3. Toss in powdered sugar, coating it well. (Sometimes I use a giant storage bowl, but I usually use a Ziploc storage bag--I put about a quarter of the mixture into the bag, add some powdered sugar, inflate the bag with my lung air, close it up all the way, and shake it up.  Then I add more of the Chex mixture, more powdered sugar, more air, and shake some more.  I do the same thing with the rest but in a different bag, so that there's room for the air and the shaking.)

*It's usually coated in powdered sugar way better but because I used too much check, there wasn't enough of the chocolate/PB mixture on each piece of cereal so there wasn't as much for the sugar to stick to.  Still very delicious but let this be a lesson to you!

**This is how my grandmother made it, how my mom made it, and now how I make it.  There are other recipes, other ways of doing it, I'm sure, but this is mine and how I've always known it to be.