Puppy Chow

Hello! So this weekend's project is actually something I made at home while I was on Spring break. I was able to bring some back with me and my roommate and I devoured all of it within a couple days. It was so good and I'll probably make another batch here soon because it was such a hit. Look below on how to make a batch of Puppy Chow!

Materials:

• Large bowl
• Quart size sauce pan
• Gallon sized resealable plastic bags
• Spatula
• 9 cups of Chex cereal
• 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1/2 cup peanut butter
• 1/2 cup butter or margarine
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 1/2 cup powdered sugar

Steps:

1. Measure out the cereal into the large bowl and set it aside.
2. Next, put the chocolate chips, butter, and peanut butter into the sauce pan and put it on low heat. Stir constantly until everything is completely melted. (Note: If you don't want it to taste too peanut buttery, you can use less than the recommend amount.)
3. Once it's melted, pour in the vanilla and stir.
4. Then immediately pour the mixture over the Chex cereal and use the spatula to stir the cereal until it's all evenly coated.
5. Next, pour some of the cereal into the plastic bag. Don't pour all of it because then when the powdered sugar is put in with it, it won't evenly distribute it on the cereal. After the cereal is in the bag, add the powdered sugar and shake the bag until all the cereal is coated.
6. Pour the cereal onto wax paper to cool and finish coating the rest of the cereal.

Ta-da! This is the finished project. You can see that I learned the hard way about having too much cereal and not enough room or powdered sugar for it to be evenly coated. The top batch that is white is how it should look in the end. But, all of it tasted great so I'd say it was a success. This makes for a great snack that you can take with you and the recipe makes a ton of it so you can share with friends and family! I hope you enjoy!