cereal snack

Name: Cereal Snack
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 25 min
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 8 cup(s) rice chex cereal; 1 1/2 cup(s) vanilla baking chips or other flavor of your choice; 1/4 cup(s) butter; 3 tablespoon(s) heavy cream; 2 tablespoon(s) orange zest or lemon or lime; 1 teaspoon(s) orange extract or other; 1 cup(s) powdered sugar, for dusting snack

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Pat Duran

Las Vegas, NV

Updated on Mar 8, 2012

This is delicious snack made with Chex cereal; it takes crunch to a new level! I hope you enjoy this simple recipe!

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prep time 15 Min

cook time 25 Min

method Microwave

yield makes 8 cups

Ingredients

8 cups rice chex cereal
1 1/2 cups vanilla baking chips or other flavor of your choice
1/4 cup butter
3 tablespoons heavy cream
2 tablespoons orange zest or lemon or lime
1 teaspoon orange extract or other
1 cup powdered sugar, for dusting snack

How To Make cereal snack

Step 1

Place cereal in large roaster or a large bowl, set aside. Melt chips,in microwave safe bowl with butter, cream and orange zest at 30 second intervals, stirring after each interval until smooth and creamy. Stir in extract.

Step 2

Pour mixture evenly over Chex or other cereal of choice, and mix gently with buttered spatula until well coated.
Step 3

Place mixture into a 2 gallon size Ziploc bag, add powdered sugar; seal bag. Shake bag until cereal is evenly coated, if desired.
Step 4

Or if desired, skip the powdered sugar step and put mixture in a preheated 275^ oven and bake 20 minutes, stirring 1/2 way through baking. Allow to cool and store in an airtight container.
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