Cookies and Cream Muddy Buddies combine the flavors of crushed Oreo cookies, Chex cereal, white chocolate, milk chocolate all dusted in powdered sugar for a chocolaty people puppy chow snack mix.
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🤩 Here is why this recipe is amazing:
- Allergy-friendly, peanut-free snack mix perfect for giving as a homemade food gift.
- Cookies and cream flavors with the crunch of chex cereal is addictively delicious.
- A delicious holiday snack mix to have when friends and family comes over.
🥫 Ingredients needed:
Here is a visual overview of the ingredients in the recipe. Scroll down to the recipe at the bottom for quantities.
🍪 Ingredients needed:
- Rice Cereal squares – Rice Chex, corn Chex or Crispix cereal. Or any combination of the three.
- Oreos - regular oreos are good. No need to get the double stuff ones. save the double stuff Oreos for oreo truffles.
- White Chocolate Chips -
- Chocolate Chips - Milk chocolate or white chocolate chips
- Powdered Sugar - learn about the different types of sugars used in baking in my baking definitions post.
🥣 Directions:
- Divide Chex cereal into two large bowls (2 ½ cups in each).
- Place 1 cup powdered icing sugar in a gallon-sized ziptop bag and set aside.
- Scrape Oreo filling out of cookies and save for later in the recipe.
- Pulse Oreo cookies in a food processor until fine crumbs remain.
- Dump the Oreo crumbs in a second gallon-sized bag and add ½ cup powdered sugar. Seal and shake to combine.
- Melt the white chocolate chips in a small microwave-safe bowl and melt for 25 seconds. Stir and reheat as needed. Add Oreo filling from step 3 to the melted white chocolate and stir until completely combined.
- Pour white chocolate mixture over the first bowl of the Chex cereal and stir to coat.
- Scoop the Chex cereal into the bag with the (plain) powdered icing sugar, then seal and shake to coat the cereal completely with the powdered sugar.
- Heat the chocolate chips in a small microwave-safe bowl and melt for 25 seconds. Stir and reheat as needed.
- Pour melted chocolate chips over the second bowl of Chex cereal and stir to coat.
- Scoop the Chex cereal into the bag with the Oreo crumb and powdered sugar mixture, then seal and shake to coat the cereal completely.
- Spread the two candy and powdered sugar-coated cereal mixtures onto a cookie sheet in a single layer and allow the chocolate to set completely for approximately 30 minutes.
- Stir the two cereal mixtures together before storing or serving. Optionally, garnish with mini OREO cookies.
📝 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS, ANSWERS AND TIPS:
I store my muddy buddies in either a gallon-sized zip-top bag or another air-tight container. It is important to keep humidity and moisture away from the snack mix. Moisture will dissolve the powdered sugar making the treat sticky.
🍽️ More Muddy Buddies Recipes
- Christmas Puppy Chow - aka. muddy buddies with Andes Candies
- Churro Muddy Buddies - cinnamon-sugar dusting over melted white chocolate coated Chex cereal to give you a sweet Chex mix snack mix.
- Cookies & Cream Muddy Buddies - combine the flavors of crushed Oreo cookies, Chex cereal, white chocolate, milk chocolate all dusted in powdered sugar for a chocolaty people puppy chow snack mix.
- Snickerdoodle muddy buddies - cinnamon-sugar dusting over melted white chocolate coated Chex cereal to give you a sweet Chex mix snack mix.
Muddy Buddies - Cookies and Cream
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Ingredients
- 5 cups Chex cereal
- 8 OREOs
- ¾ cups White Chocolate Chips
- ¾ cups Chocolate Chips
- 1 ½ cup Powdered Sugar
Instructions
- Divide Chex cereal into two large bowls (2 ½ cups in each).5 cups Chex cereal
- Place 1 cup powdered icing sugar in a gallon-sized ziptop bag and set aside.1 ½ cup Powdered Sugar
- Scrape Oreo filling out of cookies and save for later in the recipe.8 OREOs
- Pulse Oreo cookies in a food processor until fine crumbs remain.
- Dump the Oreo crumbs in a second gallon-sized bag and add ½ cup powdered sugar. Seal and shake to combine.8 OREOs, 1 ½ cup Powdered Sugar
- Melt the white chocolate chips in a small microwave-safe bowl and melt for 25 seconds. Stir and reheat as needed. Add Oreo filling from step 3 to the melted white chocolate and stir until completely combined.¾ cups White Chocolate Chips
- Pour white chocolate mixture over the first bowl of the Chex cereal and stir to coat.
- Scoop the Chex cereal into the bag with the (plain) powdered icing sugar, then seal and shake to coat the cereal completely with the powdered icing sugar.
- Heat the chocolate chips in a small microwave-safe bowl and melt for 25 seconds. Stir and reheat as needed.¾ cups Chocolate Chips
- Pour melted chocolate chips over the second bowl of Chex cereal and stir to coat.
- Scoop the Chex cereal into the bag with the Oreo crumb and powdered sugar mixture, then seal and shake to coat the cereal completely.
- Spread the two candy and powdered sugar-coated cereal mixtures onto a cookie sheet in a single layer and allow the chocolate to set completely for approximately 30 minutes.
- Stir the two cereal mixtures together before storing or serving. Optionally, garnish with mini OREO cookies.
Notes
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👩🏻🍳 Sarah Mock
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Sarah Mock is a classically trained Chef and graduate of Johnson & Wales University. A culinary blogger for 14 years Sarah helps the home cook prepare her recipes with professional results.
Sarah Mock
Glenda,
you are welcome! Enjoy the recipe. I appreciate hearing from you.
Sarah
Glenda
What a great idea! Muddy Buddies/Puppy Chow is a huge favorite at our house. Cookies and Cream definitely takes them up a notch. Thanks so much for sharing your recipe!