Cookies and Cream Puppy Chow

Cookies and Cream Puppy Chow

Delish, Easy, and Kid Approved!

Well last week was a whirl wind, we moved out of our house and into temporary housing while we await our new home being finished.  Right in the middle of all of this my oldest daughter had her very first Halloween party at gymnastics.  I needed to make something quick and easy that was kid approved and could be eaten in a gymnastics waiting room by kids 18 months to 3 years old with out too much of a mess.  That's easy right?  Well, after thinking about it and realizing I needed to also be able to make it with the few pots and pans that were not packed and ready to go to storage I thought about puppy chow.  This is a snack I never heard of before we moved to Nebraska but its one that my little one really likes, and it couldn't be any easier to make.  Basically its chex cereal, peanut butter, chocolate, and confectioner's sugar.  Since this was a special occasion,  I decided to kick it up with mini oreos making it cookies and cream puppy chow - a twist the kids and the movers liked (since I gave them the left overs I had not packaged for the kids).  I also liked this because I was able to make individual bags for this kids and label them with a peanut butter warning so if any kids were allergic parents/care givers could keep them away from them.  Which is so important when dealing with little ones.  Every packet I made went quickly and everyone asked me how I made it, a surprise since I assumed most people here already knew how.  Definitely recommended as a quick, sweet, picky food!

Here's how I did it:

Ingredients:

1 bag of milk chocolate chips

1/2 cup creamy peanut butter

7 cups of corn chex

1 bag of mini oreos

1 cup powdered sugar

In a large saucepan melt your chocolate chips and peanut butter.  Pour your chex cereal and oreos into the chocolate and peanut butter mixture and stir coating everything.  In a large plastic bag pour your confectioner's sugar then dump your coated cereal and oreos into that bag.  Shake the bag liberally coating everything with the powdered sugar.  Store in a sealed container.

How easy is that?  For the holidays you could definitely add some red and green sugar sprinkles to your confectioner's sugar and serve this in a bowl at your party.