I’ve had a week full of sponsored posts on the blog, and while I love sharing cool stuff with you guys and earning money, sometimes I just want to give y’all some fun! So I am totally sneaking in this Halloween Muddy Buddies Party Mix Recipe that I made this week. If you are looking for fun Halloween date ideas – this is a good pick!
Spooky Snacks: Halloween Muddy Buddies Party Mix
Yum, right? Totally fun!
My mom just sent out a Facebook invite for our family’s seventh annual Halloween Scary Movie Night and I wanted to get a head start on my Halloween snacks! My mom has been making what she calls Scooby Snacks or Reindeer Poop (we all call it something different) for years now and it’s basically a chocolate version of Chex Mix. The funny thing is that I never knew there was actually a Chex Party Mix! When Angeline went off to camp a few summers ago, they made Muddy Buddies and she came home and told me about it.
Chex cereal, peanut butter, chocolate and powdered sugar…obviously I was all over that!
I picked up a bag of Halloween Nestle chocolate chips at Walmart earlier this week and figured it would be super fun to make a Halloween Muddy Buddies Party Mix by separating the orange and brown chocolate chips, and of course I had to add some Reese’s Pieces to give it that extra pop of Halloween colored fun!
Halloween Muddy Buddies Party Mix Recipe
Spooky Snacks: Halloween Muddy Buddies Party Mix
Ingredients
- 1 cup of Halloween Nestle chocolate chips with the brown and orange chips divided
- you can definitely substitute white chocolate chips for the orange and just add a touch of orange food coloring if you need to
- 1/2 cup peanut butter divided
- 1 1/2 cup confectioners sugar divided
- 1 bag of Reese's Pieces pick out the orange and yellow ones
- 9 cups of Chex cereal divided
- 1/4 cup butter divided
Instructions
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Melt your brown chocolate chips, 1/4 cup peanut butter, 1/8 cup butter in a microwave safe bowl for 1 minute, then stir. Cook for an additional minute, then stir until completely creamy. Pour 4.5 cups Chex cereal into a gallon-sized Ziploc bag and pour the chocolate mixture over it and seal, then shake gently until all of the cereal is evenly coated. Then pour it into a new gallon-sized Ziploc bag and pour 3/4 cup of the confectioners sugar and seal, shaking gently until all of the cereal is evenly coated in the sugar. It should lighten the color but you should still be able to see that it's brown! Feel free to add more confectioners sugar if you don't feel that they're coated enough. There's never really too much sugar!
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Repeat with the orange chocolate chips.
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I realize that it's a total pain to go through this process twice but the results are freaking adorable!
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Pour each bag onto a baking sheet lined with wax paper and refrigerate for about 20 minutes to set. Pour both colored Halloween Muddy Buddies into a large bowl, add in your Reese's Pieces and gently shake the bowl to mix the colors - it's okay to use your hands to help them along!
Now let’s see if I can resist eating the gallon bag of this Halloween Muddy Buddies mix that’s sitting in the fridge this weekend…I better get this out of the house ASAP because I am not feeling particularly strong on my diet right now!
I totally didn’t need to see this! I LOVE muddy snack mix and have been totally craving chocolate during this pregnancy.
Ha ha!! Go for it, you’re pregnant! You can eat whatever you want 🙂
Muddy mix is the best! Love this twist for Halloween.
Love it, looks very seasonal which is a good excuse to eat it right?
Oh. Holy. Yum.!!!!
Gah, do you do delivery?!
I keep seeing these muddy buddy recipes everywhere. I am going to have to break down and make some!
Oh my! I’d love to have some of this, like right now!
Oh yummy. My kids would be all over this.
Cooking food is actually in excess of just after a food. The key would be to know the right ways to ready, to use the materials, to completely clean way up and preventing things by going wrong.
I’ve always wanted to try this – hate that I can’t have peanuts 🙁
You could easily substitute candy corn or orange and yellow M&Ms!
I like how it’s a classic recipe turned fall! Looks yummy!
That sounds so yummy!
Muddy Buddies are great!
This is such an easy recipe, and it totally hits the spot when you are craving something sweet!
i’m totally making these!
I’m afraid I may be off my diet from Halloween through Christmas. Oy vey! 🙂
Super fun. It looks so yummy too.
Muddy Buddies are so popular and it’s no wonder since they are delicious! I love all the festive colors on your mix! Happy Halloween and please I’m curious to know what was the movie you and your family watch on Halloween Movie night! What a cool mom and family you have, please let her know that! Hugs and so happy you joined us at the Fluster Buster party this week, Lizy your party co host
This looks awesome. I’ve yet to try Muddy Buddies, even though I drool every time I see a new version, LOL. Thanks for sharing at Simple Supper Tuesday.
Muddy Buddies are a new favorite of mine and I love seeing all the variations on the basic recipe. I’m going to have to see if I can find the Halloween chocolate chips.
Muddy Buddies are a favotite in our house. I love the addition of the Reese’s pieces instead of M&M’s. Thanks for sharing the recipe at the Creative Muster. Now that you found our party I hope that you’ll continue to join us every Tuesday evening.
Hi Jennifer,
Your Halloween Muddy Buddies look so good, I just love this snack mix.Thank you so much for sharing your awesome recipe with Full Plate Thursday. Have a great week and come back soon!
Miz Helen
I am going to try this and think I might be able to pull it off….thanks for sharing
Hi there! Visiting from Tasty Tuesdays, and speaking of Tasty….this party mix looks ahmazing! So festive and fun for Halloween. 😀
Visiting from Wow Me Wednesday! Love this! Looks so yummy!
How far in advance can you make these and still be good? Have a party coming up and trying not to do everything at the last moment!!!
I was still eating them three days later, so I would think at least three days!
You can leave out the butter entirely! I make these all the time with just chocolate chips and peanut butter only! no need for extra fat!
Muddy Buddies are a sure bet….no matter the flavor! Looks yummers! We’d love to have you join us at The Weekly Creative Link Party!
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Smiles,
Melanie & Diana
Thank you so much for sharing this post at last weeks Saturday Spotlight on Angels Homestead.
Hope to see you again this week!
April
WOW! Looks fantastic and I know I could load up on some big bowlSful of this YUM. Thanks for sharing at Weekend Potluck. We’d love it if you would link back to the party within your post…makes you eligible to be featured. Hope to see you again next week!
Wanted to stop by and thank you for linking up to The Weekend re-Treat last week and also pin your post while I was here 🙂
Shauna @ The Best Blog Recipes
Yum!! I could definitely dig into this. I GUESS the kids can have some too 🙂 Found you through the Doggone Crafty link up. If you get a chance, stop by my blog sometime! Have a great day!
Love muddy buddies!!! This looks so great, I would love a handful right now!! This would be a great addition to my link party, MMM, going on now! 🙂
Cathy
OMG, this looks soo good! Like one of the other commenters, this is perfect for my sweet pregnancy cravings!!
I like this recipe! It’s festive looking and different and looks very tasty!
I love muddy buddies and love to eat them. Every time I make them I end up eating more then I need too. But this is one of my favorite recipes for the holidays.