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    Home » Recipes » Football Party

    Sweet Chex Mix

    Published: Aug 25, 2010 · Modified: Apr 6, 2021 by Tiffany Dahle · This post may contain affiliate links.

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    Sweet Chex Mix is a huge hit with families, take a batch on your next road trip or camping trip.

    Sweet Chex mix is the perfect road trip snack to bring for kids.

    What kind of road trip snacks do you like to bring on the go with your family? For us, it is essential that we have a mix of both salty and sweet munchies for the trip.

    When I don't want the kids to overdose on gas station candy, I prep a batch of sweet Chex mix with just the right combo of protein-packed nuts and sweet surprises like peanut M&Ms.

    My friend Renee's Grandma has a family-favorite Chex Mix recipe they love to make. She was sweet enough to share it with me right before one of our first big road trips with my tiny girls. Before then, the only Chex Mixes I had ever tried were the traditional savory recipe that comes on the box.

    Since then, we've experimented with tons of Chex Mix recipes, but this classic remains a top favorite. When we first made it, I spent the next 5 days eating it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

    Don't miss our other favorite Chex Mix recipes:

    Baking with cereal is such an easy and affordable way to make a special treat for your family. Chex is one of our favorites, but don't miss the Cheerio's bars I'm including, too.

    • Hot apple pie Chex mix is the perfect fall treat
    • Honey Sriracha Chex mix
    • Blueberry lemon muddy buddies are ready in a pinch
    • Fluffernutter muddy buddies from The Ultimate Kids' Baking Book
    • This is the perfect way to use pumpkin spice Cheerios if you love caramel
    A bag of sweet Chex Mix has nuts, cereal, and red and orange M&M candies.

    Sweet Chex Mix

    5 from 1 vote
    This classic Peanut Blossom recipe is originally adapted from my friend Renee's Grandma's Top Secret Salty Chex Mix.
    TOTAL TIME 2 hours 15 minutes
    PREP TIME 15 minutes
    COOK TIME 2 hours
    YIELD 10 servings
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    Ingredients
      

    • 1 (12 oz) box Honey Nut Chex
    • 1 (12 oz) box Cinnamon Chex
    • 1 (10 oz) box of Teddy Grahams your flavor of choice or combination (I used chocolate chip.)
    • Broken cinnamon/sugar pita chips or cinnamon raisin bagel chips I was in a rush and couldn't find these but am convinced they would be the PERFECT addition to the mix.
    • Honey roasted nuts or regular nuts I found cashews, yum!
    • Pretzels
    • M&M’s I combined these 2 ingredients by using Pretzel M&M's. Have you tried them? Great!
    • 1 cup (2 sticks) of butter
    • 1 tablespoon sugar
    • ¼ cup honey
    • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
    • Generous sprinkle of nutmeg

    Instructions

    • Preheat oven to 250º. 
    • Mix cereal, Teddy Grahams, broken chips, nuts and pretzels in a large roasting pan. 
    • Melt butter, honey, cinnamon, sugar and nutmeg.  Pour over mix.  Stir well, but gently. 
    • Bake for 2 hours, stirring every 20 minutes.
    • Cool completely in single layers on cookie sheets. 
    • Stir in the M&M’s before storing in airtight containers.
    COURSESnack Mixes
    CUISINEAmerican
    AUTHORTiffany Dahle

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    1. Dog Breeds

      October 13, 2016 at 7:14 am

      This snack sound delicious, a creative way. Thank you for sharing the recipe. I think the snack could not last long with my children 🙂

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    2. Renee

      August 25, 2010 at 6:23 am

      I'm glad you liked it so much! I definitely prefer the original stuff, but lots of people have raved over this one... I think because it's different and unexpected. Of course, this outpouring of love over it has John believing he's a genius for suggesting I create a sweet version that he would like 🙂

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