Candy Bar Muddy Buddies has the classic chocolate and peanut butter combo, but it also has all of your favorite candy bars right in one sweet snack mix!

What ingredients are needed to make Muddies Buddies with Candy Bars?

To make Muddy Buddies Candy Bar snack mix you will need:

rice Chex cereal – you can use any variation of Chex cereal, I just have always use the rice Chex cereal because it has a very neutral, unassuming flavor that won’t compete with the chocolate and peanut butter
milk chocolate chips
creamy peanut butter
butter (salted or unsalted works)
powdered sugar
candy bars of your choice- regular size candy bars or bite size/small candy bar bites – chopped as needed into bite size pieces

What are Muddy Buddies?

Muddy Buddies is a sweet snack mix that everyone loves! It can be made in no time and you can customize it to your liking with so many different variations! Try my Smore’s Buddy Mix, you will love it!

Classic Muddies is made with rice Chex cereal, that is covered in a chocolate peanut butter mixture and then tossed in powdered sugar. It is the perfect chocolate-peanut butter snack mix.

Is Puppy Chow the same as Muddy Buddies?

If you are wondering if puppy chow and muddies are the same thing- they are! It’s just a different name for this sweet snack mix. I don’t want to eat anything that makes me think of puppy food (chow) so I will stick to calling it Muddy Buddies!

Some extra info for Muddy Buddies with Candy Bars

This recipe calls for rice Chex cereal but you will see a lot of different Chex cereals. They have rice, wheat and corn Chex cereal. They also have flavored Chex cereal like cinnamon, chocolate or vanilla. I use rice Chex, it has a basic flavor profile and pairs perfect when covered in the chocolate and peanut butter mixture. I would stay away from the flavored ones, they may affect the taste of the snack mix. But if you prefer wheat or corn chex they will work great!
Milk chocolate chips are used for this sweet snack mix. If you prefer semi-sweet you can swap it out. You can also use any other flavored “chips”, just know it will change the flavor.
Classic muddy buddies has chocolate and peanut butter mixed together to cover the Chex cereal. If you do not like the combo of chocolate and peanut butter you can leave out the peanut butter and just cover the cereal in chocolate. I have a S’mores Muddy Buddy Recipe that uses only milk chocolate, no peanut butter, to cover the Chex cereal.
You can add as many different candy bars as you like. You can break up/chop up regular sized candy bars or fun sized candy bars. They also sell mini candy bars like Snickers, Reese’s and Kit Kats. I prefer the candy bars to be smaller in size (bite size pieces) so it’s easier to eat the snack mix and the size of the snack mix is more uniform.

How to Make Candy Bar Muddy Buddies

To get ready to make the Muddy Buddies, I get everything ready before I start.

You will need the following equipment to make Muddy Buddies:

medium sized sauce pan to melt your chocolate, butter and peanut butter.
large bowl for the Chex cereal
baking sheet/cookie sheet to spread out the muddy buddies after they are covered in the powdered sugar This makes it easier to make sure the Chex cereal is covered evenly, and makes it easier to add all of the candy bars to the snack mix. You can line the baking sheet with parchment paper or foil for easier clean up- but you do not need to grease the cookie sheet!

To start, add your Chex mix to a large mixing bowl.

Chex cereal measured in a large bowl so you can pour the melted chocolate on it for S'mores Muddy Buddies

In a medium sized saucepan, over medium heat, add your milk chocolate chips, peanut butter and butter.

Chocolate chips, peanut butter and butter in a sauce pan

Slowly stir the ingredients as they start to melt. Once they start to melt, turn the the heat down to medium-low and keep stirring it until it’s smooth and melted fully.

milk chocolate chips melting over medium-low heat for S'mores Muddies Buddies

Smooth and creamy mnelted milk chocolate chips for the S'mores Muddy Buddies

Immediately take it off the heat once it’s fully melted. Pour the warm chocolate-peanut butter mixture over the chex cereal in the bowl. Gently mix the chocolate mixture and chex cereal. The cereal can get crushed easily so be gentle. A rubber spatula works great for this!

melted milk chocolate chips poured over Chex cereal to make S'mores Muddy Buddies snack mix

Milk chocolate coated Chex cereal for S'mores Muddy Buddies

Next, add some of the powdered sugar and gently mix it, making sure the chocolate-peanut butter cereal is covered fully and evenly in the powdered sugar. Add a little at time so it’s easier to mix it all in. Work quickly so it can get covered before the chocolate starts to set.

S'mores Muddy Buddies | The Butcher's Wife

Chex cereal covered in a mixture of chocolate and peanut butter and then powder sugar

Then, pour out the covered cereal on the baking sheet to make sure its all covered in the powdered sugar.

Chocolate covered Chex cereal spread on a pan to coat the cereal with powdered sugar

Cut up/chop the candy bar to your liking (if they need to be smaller).

A hand holding chopped up snickers candy bars.

Add the candy bars to the covered cereal, making sure the candy bars are evenly added to cereal.

Candy Bar Muddy Buddy Mix with Kit Kats, Reese’s, snickers and m&ms.

Place the sweet snack mix in a bowl or store it in a zip top bag until its ready to be eaten.

Above shot of Candy Bar Puppy Chow in a bowl with some of it scattered around the bowl.

A hand holding a palm full of muddy buddies with chopped up candy bars and m&ms

Store the snack mix in an air tight container or a zip tip bag.

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Try my S’more’s Muddy Buddies Snack Mix, I also have a Halloween Muddy Buddies recipe!

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