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    Home » Recipes » Appetizers & Snacks

    Apple Cinnamon Chex Mix

    Published: Oct 18, 2018 · Modified: Sep 2, 2023 by Tiffany Dahle · This post may contain affiliate links.

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    The photo collage shows the Chex mix in a serving pan next to a photo of dried apple chips.

    Apple Cinnamon Chex Mix has an apple cider and butter base for a sweet cereal snack mix tossed with yogurt covered raisins and dried apple chips.

    A pan of apple pie chex mix has yogurt covered raisins mixed in with a wooden spoon next to a green striped towel.

    I love having homemade snack mixes on hand for my kids as a special lunch box surprise or after school snack.

    They both love my favorite sweet & spicy honey sriracha Chex Mix recipe but I wanted to try something a little different this fall.

    Little Pea is currently obsessed with green apples and absolutely loves my dried apple slices recipe.

    I had some dried apples left and thought it would be fun to create an entire snack mix around them!

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    • Why This is the Best Recipe
    • Ingredients
    • Baking Instructions
    • Assemble the Chex Mix
    • Variations
    • Serving Suggestions
    • More Easy Chex Mix Recipes
    • 📖 Recipe
    • 💬 Comments

    Why This is the Best Recipe

    We love apples, we love cinnamon, we love cereal snack mixes, this treat combines all 3!

    I think this is the best apple cinnamon Chex Mix recipe because:

    1. Big Flavor: When you start with Cinnamon Chex, you already have oodles of cinnamon flavor. Then go and add apple cider and more apple pie spices? Heaven.
    2. Quick Prep: Just stir the melted butter together with seasonings and apple cider and pour it over the cereal. The rest of the job is just waiting!
    3. Healthy Mix-Ins: Add dried apple slices and yogurt covered raisins, this is a Chex mix you won't mind feeding the kids.

    Ingredients

    The ingredients to make apple cinnamon chex mix are on the counter.

    You only need a few easy ingredients to make my homemade apple cinnamon Chex Mix:

    • Cinnamon Chex Cereal
    • Butter
    • Nutmeg
    • Ginger
    • Allspice
    • Cloves
    • Apple Cider: I recommend the thick apple cider often sold in the produce section, regular apple juice is too thin and not seasoned enough.
    • Dried Apple Slices: You can buy apple chips at the grocery store but my dried apple slices recipe would work great, too.
    • Yogurt Covered Raisins

    OPTIONAL: My pumpkin spice pecans would be a fun addition to this Chex Mix if you have some leftover.

    • A baking pan has thinly sliced apple circles sprinkled with cinnamon ready for baking.
      Dried Apple Slices
    • A mason jar filled with spiced pecans has a blue ribbon tied around it and sits on a blue plate with more pecans sprinkled around.
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    Baking Instructions

    The melted butter and apple cider have been whisked together with apple pie seasonings.

    Preheat the oven to 250°F.

    Place the cereal in a large bowl and set aside.

    Melt the butter in the microwave and add the seasonings, whisk to combine.

    Pour in the apple cider and stir.

    Pour the butter mixture over the cereal and toss gently to coat.

    Pour the cereal into a large ungreased baking pan and bake for 1 hour, stirring every 15 minutes. 

    Assemble the Chex Mix

    The ingredients are in separate bowls about to be stirred together. The Chex cereal is in a pan, apple chips in a mixing bowl, and yogurt covered raisins in a small package.

    Once the cereal has completely cooled, break up the apple chips and stir them into the cereal with the yogurt covered raisins.

    I think they mimic the flavors of apple pie a la mode!

    The raisins and dried apples add a wonderful crunchy and chewy texture to the snack mix.

    Variations

    There are several other delicious mix ins you could add to apple cinnamon Chex mix:

    • mini marshmallows
    • chopped pecans
    • cheddar crackers (for a cheddar apple pie twist!)
    • butterscotch chips

    Serving Suggestions

    The finished snack mix is in a 9x13-inch metal pan with a spoon.

    There are so many great reasons to serve this fun Chex mix to your family.

    Why not add a bowl to your Halloween snacks line-up for movie night?

    You could enjoy a Fall reading picnic and read fall picture books with your kids while they nibble. This would make a great after school snack idea, too.

    Or, queue up one of these 30 movies to watch with tweens and use this in place of popcorn.

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    More Easy Chex Mix Recipes

    Homemade Chex Mix is such an easy way to use up leftover dried fruits, nuts, and candies in your pantry but these easy Chex Mix recipes are so good you'll want to run to the store to grab the ingredients to make them:

    • Sweet and spicy honey sriracha chex mix has square pretzles, cereal, and peanuts mixed together.
      Honey Sriracha Chex Mix
    • A bowl of powdered sugar coated Chex cereal next to a napkin with lemons on it.
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    • Several snack bags of homemade trail mix are lined up before a road trip.
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    📖 Recipe

    A pan of apple pie chex mix has yogurt covered raisins mixed in with a wooden spoon next to a green striped towel.

    Apple Cinnamon Chex Mix

    5 from 1 vote
    This sweet Chex Mix has all the flavors of a classic hot apple pie with dried apple chips and yogurt covered raisins mixed with cinnamon Chex baked with apple cider.
    TOTAL TIME 1 hour hour 3 minutes minutes
    PREP TIME 3 minutes minutes
    COOK TIME 1 hour hour
    YIELD 10 servings
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    Ingredients
      

    • 1 (12 oz) box Cinnamon Chex
    • 6 tablespoon butter
    • ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
    • ¼ teaspoon ginger
    • ⅛ teaspoon allspice
    • ⅛ teaspoon cloves
    • 2 tablespoon apple cider
    • 1 package dried apple chips
    • ½ cup yogurt covered raisins

    Instructions

    • Preheat the oven to 250°F. 
    • Place the cereal in a large bowl and set aside.
    • Melt the butter in the microwave and add the seasonings, whisk to combine. Pour in the apple cider and stir. Pour the butter mixture over the cereal and toss gently to coat. Pour the cereal into a large uncreased baking pan and bake for 1 hour, stirring every 15 minutes. 
    • Let the cereal cool completely before tossing together the cereal, apple chips, and raisins. Store in an air-tight container for a week.
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    AUTHORTiffany Dahle

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    The photo collage shows the Chex mix in a serving pan next to a photo of dried apple chips.
    Our favorite sweet Chex Mix recipe: hot apple pie Chex Mix is perfect for fall

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    1. Kerry

      January 14, 2020 at 7:27 am

      I wasn't able to find cinnamon chex do you think cinnamon life cereal would work?

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