Well if y'all can't tell I've been very, very busy the last week. And being busy doesn't really go with cooking sadly. I've also been pretty sick which has contributed to my lack of activity in the kitchen because when you're sick, cooking is literally the last thing you want to do. I'm finally feeling better though and school is calming down a bit so I will finally have time to get back into the kitchen! It was also my birthday last week so I had all kinds of birthday activities that kept me busy. I also took a road trip for a football game this past weekend so things have just been going non stop! But like I said, this week is a lot less busy so I will finally have time to relax thank goodness! I have to say though, I never thought it would be this hard to cook all the time. I love cooking but until now I never realized how much time and effort it takes to actually do it. Sometimes I just get lazy and don't want to and sadly frozen meals are my go to. I feel like I've done pretty well though so hopefully I'll be able to keep it up!
I did make something in all the chaos of last week though and it is one of my favorite things to make. I normally only make it around Christmas but I had all the ingredients for it so I just decided to go for it. What might this recipe be? Only one of the best holiday snacks ever invented...puppy chow! I LOVE puppy chow and I had leftover chex cereal from a previous recipe so I thought that would be a good road trip snack. I honestly wanted to get rid of the cereal and peanut butter that I had from another recipe as well so I figured I would kill 2 birds with one stone.
I set out to make the puppy chow at about 10:45 the night before we were leaving and I forgot how incredibly messy puppy chow is. If you haven't made it before, be prepared to have your kitchen covered in powedered sugar and your hands drenched in peanut butter and chocolate (which I have to say wasn't all that bad haha). I got the recipe off this link http://www.momswhothink.com/easy-recipes/puppy-chow-recipe.html because it was really simple and easy to follow. I did use more chocolate chips so here's the ingredients that I actually used...
9 cups of Chex cereal
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/4 cup butter
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 + 1/4 cup chocolate chips
3 cups powdered sugar
1/2 cup Reese's Pieces
I added more chocolate by my roommate's request and I had a huge bag of Reese's Pieces so I figured why not throw them in too? First things first, I put the butter, peanut butter, and chocolate chips in a microwave safe dish. I then microwaved them for a minute and stirred them together until thoroughly combined. In another large mixing bowl, I had measured out the 9 cups of cereal. I then proceeded to pour the chocolate mixture over the cereal and I began to mix it. This is where is began to get messy. The bowl was just big enough to fit all 9 cups so needless to say mixing meant overflowing onto the counter and the floor. I kept it in tact as best as I could but sometimes you can only do so much. I lost some of it but I just cleaned it up and kept going. Here's what it looked like before the powdered sugar...
Mmm chocolate
After the chocolate was mixed evenly over the cereal, I filled a large ziplock bad with about 2/3 of the mixture. I then added 2 cups of powdered sugar, sealed the bag, and began to shake it. I shook it thoroughly so that all the cereal would get an even coating of powdered sugar. After it looked evenly distributed, I had to take a little taste test...it was perfect and needless to say the "little" taste test turned into a big one. I'm telling you, once you start eating this stuff you can't stop haha. I put the rest of the cereal in another large ziplock bag and added 1 cup of powdered sugar to it since there was less and that worked perfectly. We carried the puppy chow with us on the road and it was a hit! It came in handy when we were stuck in traffic like 5 times so it was definitely worth the mess in the kitchen the night before. It did take me like 30 minutes to clean up all the powdered sugar but it was well worth it!
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