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Chocolate Chex Caramel Crunch

Total Time
51 min
16m prep · 35m cook
Servings
4 people
Rating
Difficulty
Medium
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🥬 Vegetarian 🌾 Gluten-Free 🥜 Nut-Free ☪️ Halal ✡️ Kosher

Plain brown sugar and butter turn into caramel goodness that surrounds chocolate cereal squares in this scrumptious, crunchy Chocolate Chex mix.

Ingredients

  • 8 cups Chocolate Chex® cereal
  • 0.75 cups packed brown sugar
  • 6 tablespoons butter or margarine
  • 3 tablespoons light corn syrup
  • 0.25 teaspoons baking soda
  • 0.25 cups vanilla baking chips

Instructions

  1. 1

    Place cereal in a large microwave-safe bowl; set aside. Line a cookie sheet with waxed paper.

  2. 2

    In a 2-cup microwave-safe measuring cup, microwave brown sugar, butter, and corn syrup uncovered on High 1 to 2 minutes, stirring after 1 minute, until melted and smooth.

  3. 3

    Stir baking soda into sugar mixture, stirring until dissolved. Pour over cereal, stirring until evenly coated. Microwave coated cereal on High 3 minutes, stirring every minute.

  4. 4

    Spread cereal mixture over the prepared cookie sheet. Cool 10 minutes. Break into bite-sized pieces.

  5. 5

    In a small microwave-safe bowl, microwave vanilla baking chips uncovered on High about 1 minute 30 seconds or until chips can be stirred smooth (bowl will be hot).

  6. 6

    Drizzle melted baking chips over snack. Refrigerate until set, 10 minutes or longer. Store in a tightly covered container.

Nutrition Facts

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