Chocolate Crunch Cookies

Rich and chewy chocolate cookies with caramelized Rice Krispies and chopped Crunch bars mixed in!

I have made cookies with Cornflakes before and really enjoyed them but was really psyched to try a chocolate cookie recipe with caramelized Rice Krispies cereal in it. It was every bit as wonderful as I anticipated. The Crunch bar bits were a super nice touch too.

Snickers Chex Mix

Chex Mix with chocolate and caramel drizzles, Snickers bits, and peanuts - all the sweet and saltiness you want in a snack!

I'll be honest and say that I think that this is the best Chex mix I've ever had. I love a sweet and salty combo which is probably why I like Snickers so much. This Chex mix is supposed to be chocolate Chex based, but unfortunately we didn't have that so I used plain Chex. For as good as this recipe was with plain Chex, I can only imagine how amazing it is with chocolate Chex. This recipe has a chocolate drizzle, a caramel drizzle, Snickers bits, and peanuts. It's exactly what you'd want in a sweet Chex mix.

Reindeer Food

If you are ready for the most addictive winter holiday snack, look no further!

I think I have found a new tradition in this Reindeer Food recipe. We have made it for the past two years and we love it! Matthew is already asking if I'm going to be making another batch this year because this year's batch lasted all of a night and then it was gone! It's ridiculously easy - with only three ingredients - and it's pretty quick to make too. My family loves to help make it because it boils down to stirring and crushing and the kids and Nick like doing those things! LOL

I'm not kidding at all when I say this is super addictive. We could not even let it set up before we were eating it. And it's so hard to not continue to eat it once you've started. I do suppose this is supposed to be for Santa's reindeer, but sorry, Rudolph, guess we're just going to leave you a carrot this year!

Browned Butter Pumpkin Spice Rice Krispies Treats

Only four ingredients to make the best fall treat you'll ever eat!

I absolutely love Rice Krispies treats and grew up making them with my mom. I have only recently discovered how amazing browned butter is. It's indescribable and I was incredibly intrigued by using browned butter in Rice Krispies treats. This snack is so stinkin' easy to make because it's just four ingredients. I would say the hardest part is browning the butter, but it's not nearly as hard as I made it out to be when I first saw it. I was so nervous to burn it. I have yet to burn browned butter **knocks on wood**

There is no pumpkin in this snack, but there is pumpkin pie spice. So if you do like cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, etc., but don't like pumpkin, you can still enjoy this treat.

Peanut Butter S'mores Crunch Bars

What do you get when you cross s'mores with Rice Krispie treats and Reese's? Heaven!!

So this dessert is what happens when you combine s'mores with Rice Krispie Treats and Reese's cups and it is wonderful. There is so much crunch to it and it's also delicious. If you haven't tried a s'mores with a Reese's cup instead of a Hershey's bar, I highly recommend it! It's my favorite way to eat s'mores. All the elements together work so well and it's really such an easy dessert to make. You don't have to be ridiculously skilled at making desserts to make this. You layer most of the ingredients and the other half is just melting a chocolate mixture in the microwave and stirring peanut butter and Rice Krispies into it. So anyone can make this. If you have kids (or have friends with kids or you're an aunt/uncle/cousin etc to kids), this would be a great recipe to make with kids of any age.

PB&J Crumble Yogurt Parfait #FantasticalFoodFight

Welcome to another Food Fight! Fantastical Food Fight is a group of food bloggers who will get a theme or ingredient each month and make some sort of variation for it. It could be traditional or nontraditional and can be found in a cookbook, on a blog, or be a blogger's own creation! For more details, check out this page.

This month's theme is PB&J -- peanut butter and jelly. Why? Because not only is March National Peanut Month, but it's also National Peanut Lover's Day today! And peanut butter and jelly is such an iconic and classic combination that I thought would fit perfectly. Today, you find recipes containing peanut or peanut butter and fruit (not necessarily jelly or jam). I chose this amazing breakfast parfait that I couldn't get enough of: PB&J Crumble Yogurt Parfait.

Technically speaking, it's actually peanut butter crumble yogurt parfait with fruit, but since I did add the fruit, I renamed it PB&J Crumble Yogurt Parfait. The peanut butter crumble is fantastic. I could and did eat it by the handful. Nick did too. I have eaten it with fresh fruit (the first picture) and frozen fruit that had been slightly heated up.

Everything about these parfaits makes me such a happy camper. But I cannot wait to see what other pb&j treats my blogging pals have to share!

Better Than Anything Chex Mix #SundaySupper

A sleepover isn't complete unless it has an addictive snack like this chex mix that is literally better than anything and everything!

Today's Sunday Supper Movement event is hosted by Marion of Life Tastes Good and the theme is SLEEPOVER FOODS.

I have not yet braved having sleepovers for my kids and their friends at my house, but Nick and I do love to do movie nights with the older kiddos where we camp out in the living room with snacks galore and blankets and pillows. Before I had Mason, we did them quite regularly and I would always make some kind of a snack food - typically either popcorn or chex mix.

When I found this recipe, I was a little skeptical. It seemed like an overwhelming amount of different sweets and I was hoping that it wouldn't be too much. Luckily, it wasn't. Oh my goodness gracious was it amazing. I am not the biggest fan of marshmallows and even I liked them in this (although I wouldn't mind trying with the little mallow bits you can put in hot cocoa). It was one of those snacks you can't help but keep eating even after you know you should stop LOL. My kids absolutely loved it. They said it was the best chex mix they had ever had.

I am excited for all the new recipes that are being shared today because even though I haven't braved a sleepover, we like to do family sleepovers and we love to try new foods :)

Sweet & Salty Frito Snack Mix

Cheer on your favorite team with a batch of this addictive snack!

Hello, all! Today, I am over on Knoxville Moms Blog sharing this recipe for only the BEST snack mix ever in the history of man! :) Be sure to stop by and save the recipe.

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Applebee's Oriental Chicken Salad Copycat #SundaySupper

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There are many other great copycat recipes from the rest of the Sunday Supper Movement - be sure to stop by and leave them a little love!

Drinks

• Copy Cat Orange Julius Recipe (sugar free) by Simply Healthy Family
• Hard Rock Cafe's Twist & Shout Shake by The Crumby Cupcake

Appetizers

• Bang Bang Cauliflower Bites by Cupcakes & Kale Chips
• Copy Cat: Outback Bloomin' Sauce with Onion Petals by Sew You Think You Can Cook
• Nopal Dip by Cookin' Mimi

Condiments

• Copycat Hershey's Syrup: Homemade Chocolate Syrup by Brunch with Joy
• Copycat Sriracha Sauce by Nosh My Way
• The Village Cafe's Avocado Dressing by Jane's Adventures in Dinner

Main Courses

• Applebee's Oriental Chicken Salad Copycat by Fantastical Sharing of Recipes
• Applebee's Shrimp and Cavatappi by Grumpy's Honeybunch
• B.good's West Side burger with chipotle salsa and avocado by Caroline's Cooking
• Brie and Asparagus Pasta by Life Tastes Good
• Cheesecake Factory Cashew Chicken by Feeding Big
• Chicken Kitchen Chop Chop and Curry Mustard Sauce by Love and Confections
• Chicken Tikka Poutine by Sustainable Dad
• Chili's Margarita Grilled Chicken by Lifestyle Food Artistry
• Filet Mignon with Red Wine Reduction and Roasted Fingerling Potatoes by Crazy Foodie Stunts
• IHOP's Ham, Egg & Cheese Melt by Food Done Light

Side Dishes

• Chevy's Sweet Corn Tomalito by The Wimpy Vegetarian
• Henri's Tas-Tee Dressing Clone and Cole Slaw by Palatable Pastime
• Panera Copycat Mac and Cheese by From Gate to Plate

Desserts

• Copycat Cosmic Brownies by Hezzi-D's Books and Cooks
• Cracker Barrel's Double Fudge Coca-Cola Cake by Cosmopolitan Cornbread
• Friendly's Monster Mash Sundae by The Redhead Baker
• Sheetz "Gobbz" Cookies by The Freshman Cook
• Tiramisu by That Skinny Chick Can Bake
• Yeasted Sour Cherry Coffee Cake by Pies and Plots

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Cinnamon Churro Muddy Buddies

Muddy Buddies or Puppy Chow - what do you call it? I typically call it puppy chow, but I like to keep the name that the original poster used. Plus I guess not everyone knows that the alternate name is puppy chow and they are like "WHY ARE YOU FEEDING YOUR KIDS DOG FOOD???". I promise this is NOT dog food - it's far from it! This recipe of muddy buddies reminded me a ton of the Cinnamon Roll Chex Mix I posted last December - just in muddy buddy form. They are a little messier, but still addictive as all get out! :)

Salted Peanut Nutella Puppy Chow

You cannot go wrong with traditional puppy chow or muddy buddies, but I've loved the variations I've tried so far: Thin Mint and Milky Way. I was dying to try another one as soon as possible. I figured the best time would be Christmas season since there's a lot of snacking around the holidays. We really loved this combination - it was just perfection to have the Nutella and salty peanuts.

Peanut Butter Lover's Rice Krispie Treats

I've only made a few variations from regular old Rice Krispie treats over the years and I really just preferred the original to the variations....until this recipe!

When I was really young, the church we went to used to have like a little brunch-y type coffee thing after the service. All the adults would socialize and us kids would grab some of the food and take off to play hide-and-seek because the church was huge. There were mint chocolate bars that were standard and so were peanut butter Rice Krispie treats with chocolate topping. We always called them Special K bars. These bars sated my appetite for those amazing treats that I haven't had in ages.

They could not have been more perfect. I loved the Reese's cups in them - that just really made them incredibly delicious. They are so sinfully sweet and decadent and scrumptious and many other descriptive words that I can't think of right now.

Milky Way Muddy Buddies

I'm trying to expand my horizons when it comes to Muddy Buddies/Puppy Chow. Me personally, I call them Puppy Chow and I about died the first time I had them as a kid. I've only made one other variation of the traditional Puppy Chow - Thin Mint. Around the time I came up with that recipe, there was an explosion of different versions (which inspired me to make my own).

This was one of the first versions I pinned to make later. They were super yummy!

Cake Batter Rice Crispy Treats

This has been at the top of my list to make for a while. I mean, you can't go wrong with cake batter. I brought these to a Halloween party at our friends' house and they were gone so fast!

(Printable Version)
What you need:

• 3 tbsp. coconut oil
• 10 oz. marshmallows (1 bag)
• 1/3 heaping cup cake mix (I used funfetti cake mix)
• 6 cups Rice Krispies
• 2 oz. candy confetti

Directions:

Melt coconut oil over medium-high heat.

 After it's melted, add the marshmallows and stir until completely melted.

Remove from heat and stir in the cake mix. 

Then add cereal and half candy confetti. Stir until well coated.

Press into a greased 9x13-inch glass dish and sprinkle remaining confetti on top. 

Let cool before you cut them up.

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