Easy Puppy Chow Recipe (2024)

Puppy chow is an irresistible mix of a crunchy chocolate and peanut butter flavored snack dusted with a coating of delicious white sugar powder. It's so delicious and very hard to resist!

My family is addicted to the chocolate and peanut butter flavor combination. If you are looking for some other easy snacks/desserts with this flavor profile, try this Special K Bar recipe! Or, make these easy three ingredient peanut butter cookies and add a few chocolate chips. They are so peanut buttery flavored and delicious.

Other Names for this Treat

There are other names for this so to avoid confusion, this recipe is also called the following names.

• Muddie Buddies - This is the second most used name for this snack!
• Monkey Munch
• Reindeer Chow - Perfect to leave for the reindeer instead of cookies.
• Bunny Bait - Over here Easter bunny!

Why I love this recipe

The peanut butter and chocolate combination with a confectioner's sugar coating is so delicious. All this on a base of crunchy cereal pieces, adds a wonderful texture to this delightful flavor.

This recipe is easy to make! It's also a no-bake recipe. All you need to do is combine 5 ingredients.

You can assemble this in less than 10 minutes! But then you do need to wait a few minutes before eating it.

There is a nostalgia factor with this treat. It's familiar and comforting to many people. Their eyes light up when they see this.

These Muddy Buddies are a great sharable snack. I've also packaged them in a mason jar and given them as gifts.

Ingredients

• 9 cups Chex cereal - I have also used Crispix cereal and Life brand cereal.
• Milk chocolate chips - If you have semisweet at home, those work great too. If you are a dark chocolate chip lover, use those.
• Peanut butter - I use whatever I have on hand. Go ahead and use your favorite brand or even homemade.
• Butter - to help the chocolate melt and have a smooth
• Powdered sugar - also known as confectioner's sugar and icing sugar (for my Canadian friends)

Instructions

Step 1
In a large bowl, add all the cereal you will use and make sure there is enough room to add and mix other ingredients.

Step 2
In a microwave-safe bowl, addbutter, peanut butter, and chocolate chips. Microwave 30 seconds then stir. Microwave in additional 20-second increments until everything is melted and stirs together smoothly. When the chocolate chips are mostly melted, you can stir them, and they will finish melting when you stir.

Step 3
Add melted ingredients into the large bowl containing cereal.

Stir until well combined. Honestly, this is where it's much easier to get the cereal well-coated if you get your hands in there! I use thin, disposable gloves when I do messy kitchen jobs like this!

Step 4
Add the powdered sugar on top of the chocolate-coated cereal.
Mix gently but quickly to coat the cereal.
Place puppy chow on a parchment paper-lined jelly roll (or cookie sheet) to cool.

Storage

This can be stored on the counter in a sealed container for up to 3 days.
Refrigerate up to 10 days (in a sealed container or plastic storage bags). Make sure the puppy chow has been cooled before putting it in the fridge. It gets soggy if it's warm and put in the fridge.

FAQs

I hope you like this recipe as much as my family does!

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