Have fun this holiday season by making a big batch of Holiday Puppy Chow! This colorful Christmas treat is easy to make with white chocolate and rice cereal.
Muddy Buddies or Puppy Chow? The name is up to you. Try this Peppermint Puppy Chow for your holiday festivities next!
Why this Recipe is Best
The kids will enjoy making this recipe almost as much as they love eating it. This recipe gives Classic Puppy Chow a festive holiday twist!
- White chocolate puppy chow with only 4 ingredients!
- Festive and east no-bake holiday treat
- An easy recipe the kids can make!
Ingredient Notes
- Rice Cereal. Chex squares are the traditional choice, but any rice squares you like will do.
- White Chocolate Chips. I use Ghirardelli white chocolate melting wafers for this recipe. Vanilla almond bark or your other favorite white melting wafers are a great choice too.
- Powdered sugar. Also called confectioner’s sugar, this extra fine sugar helps the chocolate and food coloring adhere to the rice cereal squares.
- Food coloring. Red and green gel coloring works best for treats with fun seasonal colors!
Tips and Tricks
- Divide the melted white chocolate. Add red food coloring to one half. Stir the green food gel coloring into the other half.
- Best colors for holiday puppy chow. Mix half the cereal into the red white chocolate and the remaining half into the green chocolate. Once coated, toss the two colors of cereal together for best mixture of colors!
- Storing: Store holiday puppy chow in a sealed container at room temperature. Enjoy within 5 days.
Recipe FAQs
Yes, muddy buddies and puppy chow are names for the same deliciously easy treat! This homemade Christmas candies goes by many names, each as sweet and delicious as the next.
This recipe simply outlines my very method for making colorful Christmas puppy chow for the holidays!
Holiday Puppy Chow is a perfect make ahead treat to freeze. Thaw it at room temperature or eat it straight from the freezer for an extra crunchy Christmas snack.
You can use white chocolate chips but the texture on the finished puppy chow won’t be as smooth. I much prefer the consistency and flavor of vanilla or white chocolate melting wafers.
Store puppy chow (muddy buddies) in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 5 days.
More Holiday Desserts
- Candy Cane Fudge
- Grinch Cookies
- Thumbprint Cookies
- Crock Pot Candy
- Chocolate Crinkle Cookies
- Peppermint Cheesecakes
Holiday Snacks
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Holiday Puppy Chow
Ingredients
- 12 cup rice squares cereal
- 16 ounce white chocolate melted (I use Ghirardelli melting wafers)
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- Red and Green gel food coloring
Instructions
- In two large bowls, add 6 cups of the cereal. Set aside.
- In a glass, microwave safe bowl, melt vanilla wafers (or almond bark) according to package directions.
- Pour half into a separate bowl. Add red gel food coloring to one and green gel food coloring to the other. Pour one color over each bowl of cereal, mixing until combined.
- In a large plastic resealable bag, add powdered sugar. Add contents of bowl to bag. Seal and shake until powdered sugar covers all the cereal.
- Store puppy chow in airtight container for up to 5 days. ENJOY!
Notes
- Divide the melted white chocolate. Add red food coloring to one half. Stir the green food gel coloring into the other half.
- Best colors for holiday puppy chow. Mix half the cereal into the red white chocolate and the remaining half into the green chocolate. Once coated, toss the two colors of cereal together for best mixture of colors!
- Storing: Store holiday puppy chow in a sealed container at room temperature. Enjoy within 5 days.
Nutrition
Bring extra cheer to the party with a batch of homemade Holiday Puppy Chow. Everyone loves this easy Christmas candy, especially when it’s red, green and full of festive cheer!
My favorite are my mother’s homemade sugar cookies!
Pumpkin pie!
Holiday spritz cookies!
Favorite holiday treat would have to be cookies…I’m not picky about what kind…I’ll try one of each but I think my all time favorite would have to be the traditional Nestle Toll House chocolate chip cookies.
My hands down favorite holiday treat has to be pumpkin cranberry bread… or divinity… or frosted sugar cookies. Oh man. I couldn’t pick just one! 😉 Happy Holidays!
i love cut out sugar cookies!
My grandma’s date nut roll is my favorite!
I still haven’t made puppy chow, but this looks pretty awesome. I’m loving the colors!!
This puppy chow is calling my name! It looks so yummy!! Love puppy chow and the holidays! I am obsessed with christmas and the music and the baked goodies. 🙂
cut out cookies!
Decorated and iced sugar cookies are my favorites.
Making new treat recipes each year is my favorite holiday tradition. Still have the old favorites that we have to have too.
My favvorite holiday treat is pumpkin bread. Mmmm.
Of the world to friends.
Will present the Christmas music.
Mariah Carey – “All I Want For Christmas Is You” – Christmas In Rockefeller 2014 http://wp.me/p3YsMF-4z @Sakamoto2Ryouma
My favorite holiday treat are all the candies I make. The buckeyes, the fudge, peanut butter pinwheels candy, Ritz “cookies”, chocolate covered peanuts, cream cheese mints, etc, etc. I could go on and on. lol
Aimee these are so festive and fun!! I totally love this and thanks for the raffle!
That’s a tough question – I don’t eat a LOT of sugar, being a diabetic, although Christmas Eve is one of the days I allow mysef… 😀 I like small tastes of things, tho – a tiny bite of my butter rum fudge, a small porcupine (date nut cereal ball), or a dessert I’ve worked on for too many hours. 😀
My favorite treat, though, is spending time with my family and friends throughout the month. I love loving and being loved! 🙂
Merry Christmas!
Christmas cookies!!
My lemon fruitcake!
My favorite holiday treat is chocolate covered cherries.