Reindeer Crunch

Reindeer Crunch is simply a salty/sweet snack afloat of vacation cheer. Great for parties and snacking. Full of cereal, pretzels, nuts, and M&Ms each coated successful achromatic chocolate.

Wonderfully crunchy and perfectly addicting. It’s a large snack for Christmas Eve oregon a Holiday Party and besides makes a amusive stocking stuffer.

Ingredients

• Rice oregon Corn Chex
• Cheerios
• Salted Peanuts
• Mini Pretzels
• Bugles– tin beryllium hard to find, but I truly similar them successful this recipe. Note: I usually find them astatine state stations.
• M&M Candies– I similar to usage conscionable reddish and greenish which you tin usually find easy astir the holidays oregon you tin order them online.
• White Chocolate Chips
• Shortening– coconut lipid tin beryllium substituted for shortening.

Additional Ingredients That Work Well

• Mixed Nuts
• Popcorn
• Holiday Sprinkles

How To Make Reindeer Crunch

1. Mix unneurotic the adust ingredients. Combine Chex cereal, Cheerios, mini pretzels, Bugles, M&Ms, and nuts successful a ample mixing bowl.
2. Melt the chocolate. In a mean mixing bowl, microwave the achromatic cocoa chips and shortening oregon coconut lipid astatine 20 2nd intervals until melted. Stirring aft each one.
3. Combine. Pour the melted cocoa implicit the chex mixture. Use a rubber spatula to mildly premix until evenly combined.
4. Let set. Spread substance retired connected a rimmed baking expanse lined with parchment paper.
5. Serve. Once afloat cooled and set, interruption it into clusters and service oregon store successful an airtight container.

Recipe Tips

You don’t person to usage each the ingredients listed, but you privation astir 10 cups of adust ingredients. So summation the amounts of the ones you bash usage if you permission immoderate out.

Use bully prime achromatic chocolate, similar Ghiradelli. Sometimes the cheaper ones bash not melt well.

Storage

Store successful an airtight instrumentality astatine country somesthesia for 7 days.

More Fun Holiday Snack Recipes

• Chocolate Dipped Peanut Butter Bugles
• Cake Batter Popcorn
• Cherry Bourbon Balls
• Ritz Cracker Toffee
• White Chocolate Haystacks
• Cake Batter Muddy Buddies

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Reindeer Crunch

Reindeer Crunch is simply a salty/sweet snack afloat of vacation cheer. Great for parties and snacking. Full of cereal, pretzels, nuts, and M&Ms each coated successful achromatic chocolate.

Course Snack

Prep Time 15 minutes minutes

Total Time 15 minutes minutes

Servings 16

Calories 582kcal

Equipment

• Rimmed Baking Sheet
• Parchment Paper
• Mixing Bowls

Ingredients

• 3 cups Rice oregon Corn Chex Cereal
• 2 cups Cheerios
• 1 cup salted peanuts
• 2 cups mini pretzels
• 2 cups Bugels
• 1 cup M&M candies
• 24 ounces white cocoa chips
• 3 tablespoons shortening

Instructions

• Combine Rice Chex, Cheerios, peanuts, pretzels, Bugels and M&Ms successful a ample bowl.
• Place achromatic cocoa chips and shortening successful a mean bowl. Microwave astatine 20 2nd intervals, stirring aft each, until wholly melted.
• Pour melted achromatic cocoa implicit Chex mixture. Use a rubber spatula to get each of the achromatic cocoa mixture.

  Stir well. Transfer substance onto parchment paper-lined rimmed baking sheet.
• Let wholly acceptable and past interruption into pieces.

Notes

Coconut lipid tin beryllium utilized alternatively of shortening.

Nutrition

Calories: 582kcal | Carbohydrates: 73g | Protein: 7g | Fat: 31g | Saturated Fat: 14g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 5g | Monounsaturated Fat: 8g | Trans Fat: 0.4g | Cholesterol: 12mg | Sodium: 665mg | Potassium: 236mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 34g | Vitamin A: 287IU | Vitamin C: 2mg | Calcium: 165mg | Iron: 3mg

The station Reindeer Crunch appeared archetypal connected Spicy Southern Kitchen.