Christmas Muddy Buddies (Puppy Chow)

All over the country, people have been cooking and baking for their holidays this month (and there are a lot of holidays to celebrate)! We are a Hanukkah-Christmas house, so it feels like we’re celebrating the entire month of December! With Hanukkah being over and Christmas happening now, I like to make some of my favorite holiday recipes.

This recipe is one of my favorites but it has a lot of names: Muddy Buddies, Puppy Chow, Christmas Crack… what you call it all depends on where you live. What do you call it?? I’m fairly certain we’ve called it all of these names! 🙂 Ha!

I will say this is an ooey-gooey big-crowd-feeding kinda recipe. It’s beyond sweet, so if that’s not your thing, this is not for you. But if it is, you’re going to just love it!

Do you have any good big party recipes? I’d love to know in the comments below! Happy baking!

Christmas Muddy Buddies (Puppy Chow)

Servings: 8-10
Time: 15 minutes
Difficulty: easy
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Ingredients

1 stick (8 tablespoons) salted butter
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
4 cups Rice Chex Cereal
1 cup mini pretzel sticks
2 cups powdered sugar
2 cups holiday (or caramel) M&Ms

Directions

In a bowl, melt the butter, peanut butter, and chocolate together in the microwave, stirring every 30 seconds until melted and smooth (mine took just over a minute).
Combine the Chex, pretzels and M&M’s in a large bowl. Pour the chocolate peanut butter mix overtop and stir until evenly coated.
Pour the mixture into a large Ziploc bag and add the powdered sugar. Seal the bag and shake until the cereal is well-coated. Enjoy!