Best Ever Puppy Chow

This really is the Best Ever Puppy Chow Recipe!

I've sampled a lot of different puppy chow recipes and this is the only one I can't stop eating! That's probably not a good thing. I would recommend measuring out how much you should eat, put it in a cute little dish and find a cozy spot to sit and savor each bite. I too often stand at the countertop and mindlessly eat until the guilt sets in. I don't recommend that method.

I've tried using various rice square cereals and each one creates a slightly different end result. My favorite has been Kellogg's® Crispix® cereal.

Best Ever Puppy Chow
10 cups rice square cereal
1/2 cup melted butter
12 ounces semisweet chocolate chips
1 3/4 cups (16 ounces) smooth peanut butter
3 1/2 cups powdered sugar

Place cereal in a large bowl. In a medium saucepan, melt chocolate chips over low heat. It's very important that it's low heat so the chocolate doesn't burn. Add peanut butter and butter, stirring until smooth. Once everything is melted and mixed together, remove from heat and pour over cereal. I usually stop pouring and mix it up a little to start coating the cereal. Better yet, if you have helping hands, one person can toss the cereal in the bowl while another slowly pours the mixture over the cereal.
Once all the chocolate mixture is in the cereal bowl, continue to toss to coat all the pieces.

Now I get a clean paper grocery bag and pour some powdered sugar in the bottom. Then I pour some of the coated cereal into the bag, add more powdered sugar over the cereal in the bag and repeat until all the cereal is in the bag and the powdered sugar is in the bag. I don't ever actually measure the powdered sugar. I just keep pouring more in until I think it's enough!

Fold the bag closed and gently flip the bag upside down and upright again repeatedly to get the cereal coated with the powdered sugar.

Lay out a long piece of waxed paper and slowly pour out the puppy chow onto the waxed paper to cool. I like to separate the big chunks into individual pieces and I then dunk the pieces into extra powdered sugar so each piece is covered in powdered sugar. This isn't always necessary if you use enough powdered sugar in the bag. 

Once cooled, about an hour, store in an airtight container.
Yield: about 13 cups of snack mix