This may not be new at all to many of you, but it is to me!

Someone brought some little snack bags full of a sweet Chex mix to the office yesterday and gave everyone their own – there was quite a buzz about it right away.

It was WONDERFUL and no one had tasted this before.

Wellllll, I was at the store last night and right there on the Cinnamon Chex box was THE recipe woohoo!

The mix I tasted used butter flavored "puffcorn" instead of popcorn which just melted in the mouth like a pinch of a cinnamon bun

And I don't believe it had the Chocolate Chex in it, so I am using Cinnamon Chex plus Rice Chex and the "puffcorn".

Snickerdoodle Chex Mix

1/4 cup sugar

1 tsp. ground cinnamon

2 cups Cinnamon Chex

2 cups Chocolate Chex

4 cups popped popcorn

1/4 cup butter or margarine

In small bowl, mix sugar and cinnamon, set aside.

In large microwavable bowl, mix cereals and popcorn.

Melt butter in a cup in the microwave and pour over cereal mixture and stir until evenly coated.

Microwave uncovered on HIgh for 1 minute, stir, microwave 1 more minute, stir.

Sprinkle with half of the sugar mixture, stir. Sprinkle with the remaining sugar mixture, stir.

Microwave 1 minute longer.

Spread on waxed paper or paper towels to cool.

16 half cup servings.

I just made 3 gallons of it in about 45 minutes. I added some cocoa powder to the cinnamon sugar so as to not ignore the chocolate LOL. I used a box of Cinnamon Chex,  one 5 ounce bag of butter puffcorn, 3/4 cup sugar with 1 Tbsp. cinnamon + 1 tsp. cocoa power, and 3/4 cup margarine.

Baked in the oven for 5 or 6 minutes at 250 degrees in lieu of each period of nuking it.

Made this  X2. YUM!

Do try it, it's very good and a nice change.

dede

It's the no-hull 'popcorn' sold in bags beside the potato chips, etc. Usually comes in butter flavor or cheese flavor. Regular popcorn would work as the recipe asks for, but what I tried had the puffcorn and was great, plus I have a few family members who cannot have popcorn hulls, so this worked great for me for Christmas baskets. You could use the cereal  I think – it's already sugar-coated though, if I remember? So may be a bit different, but what the heck? LOL

dede