Bunny Chow with Chex Mix (Puppy Chow)
Bunny Chow with Chex Mix creates a fun holiday treat kids and grown-ups love in 15 minutes! An Easy and delicious Easter Treat Idea that’s seriously addictive! Serve it at your next gathering and watch it disappear!
Easter Oreo Bark and Spring Cookie Bars are also must-make recipes!
Muddy Buddies, Puppy, or Bunny Chow?
This tasty little snack mix goes by many names. Perhaps you know it as Easter Puppy Chow or Muddy Buddies – whatever you call it, it’s delicious and hard to resist! Really hard! With Easter around the corner, it’s easy to turn your Muddy Buddies recipe into Bunny Chow!
We use white chocolate instead of milk chocolate and add some seasonal candy-coated chocolate eggs when we make it, and the combo is so good!
Everyone also loves our Reindeer Chow during the Christmas holiday.
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Easy Easter Treat
- No-Bake
- Gluten-Free
- Festive
- Big Batch
Ingredients for Bunny Chow with Chex Mix
- CORN CHEX – you can use Rice Chex, Wheat Chex, or a combination of all of them.
- WHITE CHOCOLATE CHIPS – you can also use white candy melts.
- PEANUT BUTTER – creamy peanut butter, to be exact!
- BUTTER – you can also use margarine, but we feel it’s better tasting with butter.
- VANILLA – real vanilla extract if you have it.
- POWDERED SUGAR – yep, plain old powdered sugar.
- SEASONAL CANDY – M&Ms work or Milk Chocolate or Cadbury Eggs. Pick your favorite candy, but Easter colors work the best.
Related: Spring Confetti Cookie Bars that are wayyyyyy amazing and adorable Easter Cookie Cups!
Bunny Chow Recipe
Bunny Chow or Muddy Buddies are always a hit at get-togethers – the bowl will empty before you know it. So grab the 6 simple ingredients (you probably have most of them on hand right now) and whip up a batch today!
As you can see here, we could hardly get a picture without little hands trying to be sneaky and grab just a nibble 🙂
Ritika
Tip for Making Easter Puppy Chow
- Grab a Large Bowl: Mixing the cereal with the other ingredients (besides the powdered sugar) is easiest in a large bowl. Then, transfer to a large zipper bag for the final step of getting the mixture coated with powdered sugar.
- Plastic Bag: Yes, a large zipper bag is the easiest for mixing powdered sugar. It works well, and clean-up is a breeze.
- Big Batch: Make a big batch to eat, AND put it in your kid’s Easter basket!
- Peanut Allergy? If you have a nut allergy, you can omit the peanut butter and increase the white chocolate to 12 ounces.
Recipe FAQs
You can store Bunny Chow in a sealed container on the counter for about a week. Thus making it a great make-ahead recipe for the holiday.
More Easter Treats
Easy Easter Brownies
Bunny Oreo Cookie Pops
Easter Oreo Bark
Bunny Cupcakes
Easy Easter Treats
Easter Birds Nest Cookies (no-bake)
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Bunny Chow with Chex Mix Recipe
Ingredients
- 9 cups Corn Chex™, Rice Chex™ or Wheat Chex™ cereal, or a combination
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
- ½ cup peanut butter
- ¼ cup butter or margarine
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups powdered sugar
- 1 bag Seasonal candy, M&Ms or other Easter candy
Instructions
- In a large bowl, measure out cereal; set aside.
- In a 1-quart microwavable bowl, microwave white chocolate chips, peanut butter, and butter uncovered on High for 1 minute; stir. Microwave about 30 seconds longer or until mixture can be stirred smooth. Stir in vanilla. Pour mixture over cereal, stirring until evenly coated.
- Add half of the powdered sugar into a 2-gallon resealable food-storage plastic bag, pour cereal mixture into the bag and then add the remaining powdered sugar. Seal bag; shake until well coated. Spread on waxed paper to cool. Add in candies and store them in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
Do you have to store in the fridge? We’re having a bake sale in April at work, I would love to make this!!
No, you don’t need to store Bunny Chow in the fridge. It should be fine left at room temperature for your bake sale. Enjoy!
Can I swap out almond butter for the peanut butter?
Hi Martha, we have not tested the recipe with almond butter, but it will likely work since it’s usually the same consistency as peanut butter. Let us know how it goes!
I love the name Bunny Chow and of course everyone one loved this when I made it! Great recipe, thank you!
So glad it was a hit with your family. Don’t forget to leave some out for the Easter Bunny!
I just love this stuff. It’s very addictive. My kids love it too so I’ll be making it again for Easter this year.
It’s an Easter tradition around here! So yummy!
This bunny chow is so cute! Making this for the kids lunch boxes for spring.
That’s a great idea, Heather. Don’t forget to leave some out for the Easter Bunny!
My kids could eat this everyday!! We love chex mixes for movie night, especially when they have m&m’s in it!
The wonderful thing about this recipe is you can use whatever candy you like! Cadbury Eggs would be good too!