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What are Muddy Buddies?

qualitygal — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 19:30:19 GMT

Mary Beth talked about these with Chris Pine. I'll need to see if it's in MBR's recipes. I've never heard of these before. No I didn't find them. Does anyone have a recipe or can tell me what these are?

Re: What are Muddy Buddies?

kittymomNC — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 19:40:14 GMT

Is this what you're referring to? It comes in chocolate and snickerdoodle flavors.

The snickerdoodle flavor is chex dusted with cinnamon and sugar. I have a recipe for something between a candy and a cookie made with these, if I can find it. They're delicious - I could eat a whole bag!

Re: What are Muddy Buddies?

beckyb1012 — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 19:43:24 GMT

Addictive!! I love them. Chex but with chocolate and slight touch of powdered sugar. I have just a few left at home right now need to buy more.

Re: What are Muddy Buddies?

Suzeecat — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 19:43:51 GMT

Before these came out ready-to-eat, I made them with chex cereal, melted semi-sweet bits mixed with peanut butter, and frosted with confectioner's sugar. They were my sons' favorite!

Re: What are Muddy Buddies?

GloriBee — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 19:46:04 GMT

Here is the recipe. It goes by many names. We call it Monkey Munch. Chex site has the recipe.

We make this a few times a year for parties. At Super Bowl it literally disappears! Everyone loves it! A really yummy treat!

Here

Re: What are Muddy Buddies?

Carmie — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 19:48:41 GMT

We call it Puppy Chow.

Ingredients:

9 cups crispy rice cereal squares

1/2 cup peanut butter

1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar

Directions:

In a saucepan over low heat, melt the chocolate; add peanut butter and mix until smooth Remove from heat, add cereal and stir until coated

Pour powdered sugar into large plastic bag, add coated cereal and shake until well coated. Store in airtight container

Re: What are Muddy Buddies?

rat2e — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 19:55:11 GMT

These sound so delicious they should come with a warning label.... LOL.

Re: What are Muddy Buddies?

qualitygal — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 19:57:42 GMT

Right on top of it, you are!!! Thanks. That's just what they looked like. I'll need to check those out!

Thanks ladies, I've copied the recipes. I love it when something good, makes me come out like the Kitchen Queen.

Re: What are Muddy Buddies?

GloriBee — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 20:02:12 GMT

On 10/29/2014 Carmie said:
We call it Puppy Chow.

Ingredients:

9 cups crispy rice cereal squares

1/2 cup peanut butter

1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar

Directions:

In a saucepan over low heat, melt the chocolate; add peanut butter and mix until smooth Remove from heat, add cereal and stir until coated

Pour powdered sugar into large plastic bag, add coated cereal and shake until well coated. Store in airtight container

It goes by so many names: Muddy Buddies, Monkey Munch (or Crunch), Puppy Chow...

Most call for 1 teasp. of vanilla. The one I posted above also calls for 1/4 cp. margarine (or butter). I will have to check my recipe at home. I haven't made it since last Super Bowl, but for some reason I don't recall the butter with the peanut butter. Also, my daughter and I make it together, so that may be why I am fuzzy--between the two of us measuring ingredients.

Re: What are Muddy Buddies?

kittymomNC — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 20:05:41 GMT

No-Bake Muddy Buddies Snickerdoodle Drop Cookies

Ingredients

2 bars (4 oz each) white chocolate baking squares, chopped

1 can (14 oz) sweetened condensed milk (not evaporated)

1 cup chopped walnuts

2 1/2 cups Chex Mix® Muddy Buddies® Snickerdoodle snack mix, slightly crushed

3/4 cup shredded coconut

4 squares (1 oz each) bittersweet baking chocolate or semisweet baking chocolate, chopped

2 teaspoons shortening

Place mini paper baking cup in each of 50 mini muffin cups or place wax paper on cookie sheet

In large microwavable bowl, microwave white chocolate uncovered on High 2 to 3 minutes, stirring every 30 seconds, until melted. Stir in condensed milk. Stir in walnuts, snack mix and coconut. Cover with plastic wrap. Let stand 15 to 20 minutes. Scoop by tablespoonfuls into muffin cups or cookie sheet. Refrigerate 2 hours.

In medium microwavable bowl, microwave bittersweet baking chocolate and shortening uncovered on High in 30-second increments until mixture can be stirred smooth. Drizzle over top of each candy drop cookie. Refrigerate until set. Store refrigerated in airtight container.

To make bars: Line 8- or 9-inch square pan with foil, leaving foil hanging over 2 sides for easy removal. Melt 1 tablespoon butter; grease foil in pan with melted butter. Press white chocolate mixture into pan. Drizzle with dark chocolate mixture. Refrigerate 2 hours before cutting.

Re: What are Muddy Buddies?

qualitygal — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 20:09:22 GMT

kittymomNC. Got it and I'm sure to be Kitchen Queen with those. Thank you so much!!! Ohh they look sinfully good! LOL

Re: What are Muddy Buddies?

GloriBee — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 20:16:00 GMT

On 10/29/2014 qualitygal said:
Right on top of it, you are!!! Thanks. That's just what they looked like. I'll need to check those out!

Thanks ladies, I've copied the recipes. I love it when something good, makes me come out like the Kitchen Queen.

The recipe is usually on the box of Chex, along with a lot of the usual Chex Mix recipes.

As rat2e said, these should come with a warning label, they are so good!

Gloria

Re: What are Muddy Buddies?

beckyb1012 — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 20:21:20 GMT

Bugle corn chips have come out with their version too. Pretty good and not as expensive as a bag of the Chex. Love them but they are pretty small bags for close to $4.00 here.

Re: What are Muddy Buddies?

kittymomNC — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 20:23:01 GMT

On 10/29/2014 qualitygal said:
kittymomNC. Got it and I'm sure to be Kitchen Queen with those. Thank you so much!!! Ohh they look sinfully good! LOL

The thing I forgot to mention, which is a very important "thing", is that the Snickerdoodle flavor this calls for came out last holiday season in the grocery stores as a seasonal thing in the regular size larger bags, about 10.5 oz. I could only find them on Amazon in that size bag for a long time, and I haven't checked lately. However, a lot of convenience stores carry them in the bag I pictured in my first post, which is 4.5 oz for about $3.00. I haven't made them since last winter when they still had some of the larger bags available (they were a turquoise color), so it might be kind of expensive to make. I'm hoping they will come back with the larger bags in the grocery stores, which were much more reasonable. I haven't checked to see if they have them now.

They do still have the larger bags of the chocolate flavor, so I think this recipe would probably taste good with those as well, or on the Chex website, I think there are recipes to make the ones using Chex cereal and cinnamon and powdered sugar.

Sorry about leaving out that important bit of information.

Re: What are Muddy Buddies?

kittymomNC — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 20:27:14 GMT

On 10/29/2014 Gloria said:
On 10/29/2014 Carmie said:
We call it Puppy Chow.

Ingredients:

9 cups crispy rice cereal squares

1/2 cup peanut butter

1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

1 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar

Directions:

In a saucepan over low heat, melt the chocolate; add peanut butter and mix until smooth Remove from heat, add cereal and stir until coated

Pour powdered sugar into large plastic bag, add coated cereal and shake until well coated. Store in airtight container

It goes by so many names: Muddy Buddies, Monkey Munch (or Crunch), Puppy Chow...

Most call for 1 teasp. of vanilla. The one I posted above also calls for 1/4 cp. margarine (or butter). I will have to check my recipe at home. I haven't made it since last Super Bowl, but for some reason I don't recall the butter with the peanut butter. Also, my daughter and I make it together, so that may be why I am fuzzy--between the two of us measuring ingredients.

This sounds really good -- I could eat a lot of that kind of "puppy chow"!

Re: What are Muddy Buddies?

brewhaha — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 20:37:57 GMT

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Re: What are Muddy Buddies?

glmama — Wed, 29 Oct 2014 20:38:13 GMT

I had never heard of it until about a year ago. There are a few baking blogs on line that have puppy chow recipes.