The secret is, I had bought all of the ingredients for this treat a few days ago. I was just waiting for the right time to make it, and today was that time!
I know I've told you before, but I was late to the muddy buddy craze. Like really late. My first foray into muddy buddies was the (insanely delicious) red velvet cookies and cream muddy buddies I made a few months ago. Being that yesterday marked the first day of summer, I figured a summery themed muddy buddy flavor would be great. And then I thought...muddy buddy snack mix!! Sometimes I even surprise myself!
I know I've told you before, but I was late to the muddy buddy craze. Like really late. My first foray into muddy buddies was the (insanely delicious) red velvet cookies and cream muddy buddies I made a few months ago. Being that yesterday marked the first day of summer, I figured a summery themed muddy buddy flavor would be great. And then I thought...muddy buddy snack mix!! Sometimes I even surprise myself!
And thus, my S'mores muddy buddy snack mix was born!
The secret to these is the seasonal S'mores Oreo. These muddy buddies started with milk chocolate and crushed S'mores Oreos. You could stop there. Honestly, no one would blame you. But then I went ahead and added milk chocolate chips, teensy marshmallows, broken up graham crackers, and a few cut up Hershey's bars to the already delicious S'mores muddy buddies, and voila, you have an addictively good summer treat! And all without even turning on your oven!
** so here's the thing....I made the muddy buddies, and we devoured them. I made sure to save some to make this snack mix. So even though you get many cups of muddy buddies with this recipe, I made the snack mix using 4 cups of the muddy buddies. If you can hold out and not continuously munch on them, you can double the snack mix recipe. But if you're like me, make sure you save 4 cups of muddy buddies before you go to town on them ;-) **
** so here's the thing....I made the muddy buddies, and we devoured them. I made sure to save some to make this snack mix. So even though you get many cups of muddy buddies with this recipe, I made the snack mix using 4 cups of the muddy buddies. If you can hold out and not continuously munch on them, you can double the snack mix recipe. But if you're like me, make sure you save 4 cups of muddy buddies before you go to town on them ;-) **
S'mores Muddy Buddies
Adapted from this recipe
Ingredients:
6 cups Chex cereal (I used corn)
12 oz milk chocolate almond bark (I used CandiQuik)
20 S'mores Oreos
1/2 cup powdered sugar (I ended up using a little more)
Directions:
Put Chex in a large bowl.
Process the Oreos in a food processor until fine.
Set aside.
Melt CandiQuik (or almond bark) in it's tray (or a microwave safe bowl) and microwave in 30 second intervals.
Stir.
Continue microwaving and stirring every 30 seconds until completely melted.
Pour melted chocolate over cereal.
Stir carefully to coat it.
Immediately add the ground Oreos.
Toss/stir to coat.
Next, toss on the powdered sugar.
Mix until coated.
I placed mine on a wax paper lined baking sheet so that the CandiQuick could dry.
I felt mine needed a little more powdered sugar, so I added 1 Tbsp at a time until all of the muddy buddies were coated in powdered sugar.
Allow to dry completely before making snack mix.
**Try not to eat all of the muddy buddies during this waiting period!!**
S'mores Muddy Buddy Snack Mix
Ingredients:
4 cups s'mores muddy buddies (see recipe above)
1/2 cup jet puffed mallow bits
2 graham crackers, cut/broken into small pieces
1/4 cup milk chocolate chips (I used the large baking ones from Ghirardelli)
1 Hershey's bar, cut into small rectangles
Directions:
Place all ingredients in a bowl or large ziplock bag.
Mix.
If not eating in all one sitting, or if gifting, a mason jar makes a cute gift!