Muddy Buddy Frosted Animal Cookie

Muddy Buddy Frosted Animal Cookie Recipe

Tuddily — un — tun — tun!

It’s today. The third and final of these three tasty recipes is posted.

T – O – D – A – Y.

Today is a great day to post it.

Here’s the Muddy Buddy Samoas recipe and the Muddy Buddy Andes Mint recipe.

Here’s the Muddy Buddy Frosted Animal Cookie recipe I pinned.

And here’s how we did it.

Muddy Buddy Frosted Animal Cookie recipe.

 

There are five ingredients listed in the original recipe. We only used four of them.

Muddy Buddy Frosted Animal Cookie Recipe

— 9 cups Rice Chex cereal

— (1) 13 0z bag of frosted animal cookies

— 16 oz white CandiQuik
[Baking chocolate.]

— 1/2 cup powdered sugar

— 1/4 cup nonpareil sprinkles
[They’re just sprinkles. And we didn’t use them in the recipe. They would definitely add some tiny little pops of color — but  — we just didn’t use them. Most of the tiny little pops of color in the previous photo are pretend nonpareil sprinkles. Added by moi. Using PicMonkey.]

I use Rice Chex for Muddy Buddy recipes and Corn Chex for breakfast. Rice Chex just seems to take on the flavor better.

Let’s make this tasty treat.

1 — Measure the Rice Chex into a large bowl.

Set it aside.

2 — Crush/chop the cookies.

The Baking Bunch [Cathy, Tyler and moi] decided that if we ever made this recipe again we wouldn’t crush the cookies — we’d chop them up like you would a handful of walnuts or pecans.

Even lightly crushing the cookies made the pieces too small very quickly. Cutting them would leave them in bigger chunks.

 Crush or CHOP all of the cookies to equal 1 1/2 cups. Set aside 1/2 cup for later.

If you’re crushing them, use a bag — it’s less messy.

If you’re chopping them, use a cutting board.

[I vote chop — choppity — chop — chop.]

However you do it, you’ll have some cookies left over to break apart and add to the finished mixture.

Add the crushed/chopped cookies to the bowl of measured cereal and gently mix them together.

3 — Melt the chocolate.

There’s a simple way to do this and a difficult way to do this.

The difficult way.

Take the block of chocolate and break it into tiny pieces — well — break it into pieces of varying sizes including shavings. Grab your most sensitive scale and begin to accurately weigh the chocolate.

After all of that work, begin to realize that there’s a piece of chocolate the size of a marshmallow remaining.

And then realize that the wrapper [quickly ripped off of the chocolate brick at the beginning by moi] had the weight on it.

Seriously.

The simple way.

Just read the weight on the package and melt all of it.

~sigh~

Put all the pieces in a microwaveable bowl.

Use the 30 – seconds or less rule when melting chocolate:

30 seconds in the microwave.

Stir.

20 seconds in the microwave.

Stir.

Melt and stir.

4 — Pour the chocolate over the cereal.

Grab the bowl with the cereal-cookie mix as well as a large spoon.

Drizzle/lovingly pour the melted chocolate over the cereal-cookie mix and gently mix.

Don’t stir like you’re whippin’ up some cream because your cereal pieces will be crushed as will your dreams of crunchy bites of deliciousness.

5 — Measure the powdered sugar into a large Ziplock bag.

Add the cereal to the bag — zip that bag closed —  shake, shake, shake. Give the powdery goodness a moment to settle and re-open the bag.

Add the remaining 1/2 cup of crushed/chopped cookies to the treat and gently mix.

If you’re going to serve it, hurry because you’ll want to eat it. If you’re going to store it until someone comes home, best be storing it in a flash, because you’ll want to eat it.

What do you call this tasty kind of treat? Muddy Buddies or Puppy Chow?

Either way — yum.