This was my week last week. Not sure what the root cause of all this funk was, but the biggest tragedy was that I had no chocolate in my house. Luckily for me, however, I found this delicious new pumpkin recipe!
Who doesn't love puppy chow (aka about five million different names) that sweet chocolately-peanut buttery chex mix full of enough sugar to send a five year old to Mars? How in the world can you improve upon this recipe?! I tell you, I might have found just the recipe to sway you!
Pumpkin Pie Chex Mix
Now, while this recipe does not contain any actual pumpkin it contains all the yummy flavors of pumpkin pie and it's super easy to make. After making it initially to take to a little get together with the office girls, I've made it twice since!
I found the original recipe here.
As always, first things first: ASSEMBLE THE TROOPS!
For my initial making of this recipe, I used plain rice chex as it calls for in the recipe, however in re-making it I used Cinnamon chex and I have to say it added so much more flavor!
Measure out your powdered sugar into a gallon-sized baggie and set aside. I also mixed some additional pumpkin pie spice into the sugar. I didn't measure it just a few good shakes until the powdered sugar is tinted slightly tan.
Put the white chocolate chips and the Biscoff in a microwave safe bowl and heat on high for 1 minute, stir, then heat an additional 30 seconds.
DON'T SKIP THIS STEP!!! Now add in the teaspoon of pumpkin pie spice to the chocolate/Biscoff mixture and stir to combine.
The recipe calls for you to then pour the cereal into the chocolate/Biscoff mixture, but I prefer to have my cereal in a large bowl and pour the liquid on top of the cereal and gently stir to combine. I find that this allows me to more thoroughly mix the ingredients and lessens my chances of crushing the cereal into tiny pieces.
Now you dump the cereal mixture into your gallon baggie with the powdered sugar. Leave some air inside the bag and seal it up, TIGHTLY! Shake it around gently breaking apart large cereal clumps with your fingers (through the closed bag) to allow it to be fully coated in the powdered sugar.
And voila! Pour into a bowl and stand back because this stuff is dangerously hard not to eat in an entire sitting!
Other variations to try include adding roasted pumpkin seeds or nuts to the cereal to make it more trail mix-y.
Review: This recipe was SOOOO easy. It took less than no time and was so delicious. I don't tend to keep white chocolate chips or chex cereal on hand, so I had to pick those up as well as the Biscoff. It took less than 10 minutes to make the whole batch from start to finish. Now, the calorie count wouldn't be so bad if it was possible to only have a serving at a time, but it's nearly impossible not to stand over the bowl and eat until you are ashamed... That being said, I'm definitely adding this to my fall arsenal and will probably make it several more times this season! Overall I give it a 42/50.
Here's my recipe review card for this recipe.
And you can print it out here!
So, although I did not have my tried and true chocolate to soothe me during my funk I had this new found delicacy and a whole heck of a lot of prayer. I survived the funk and found a new fall favorite, what more could I ask for?
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