Reindeer Food Snack Mix

REINDEER SNACK MIX

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 250 degrees F (120 degrees C).
• Combine cone-shaped corn snacks, cheese crackers, pretzels, corn cereal squares, mini shredded wheat squares, and pecan halves in a large bowl. Whisk butter, maple syrup, Worcestershire sauce, Cajun seasoning, and cayenne pepper in a separate bowl. Pour butter mixture over snack mixture and toss lightly to coat. Spread mixture into a 10x15-inch jelly roll pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until snacks are lightly toasted and liquid has been absorbed, about 1 hour; stir every 15 minutes.

REINDEER FOOD

Steps:

• Cover a large area of counter space with waxed paper and tape it down.
• Mix pretzels, corn cereal squares, peanuts, and candy-coated milk chocolate pieces together in a large bowl.
• Melt white chocolate in the top of a double boiler over simmering water, stirring frequently and scraping down the sides with a rubber spatula to avoid scorching. Pour melted white chocolate over pretzel mixture; stir to evenly coat. Quickly transfer mixture to the prepared waxed paper and spread in a thin layer; cool completely. Break into pieces and store in an airtight container.

REINDEER CHOW (CHRISTMAS SNACK MIX)

Steps:

• In a microwavable bowl, combine the semisweet chocolate chips, peanut butter, caramel sauce, and butter. Microwave and stir chocolate mixture in 20-30 second intervals (checking in-between intervals to make sure it's not burnt) until completely melted when stirred together. Stir in the vanilla extract.
• Pour the cereal into a large bowl and add in the chocolate, peanut butter, and caramel mixture. Stir the cereal in the mixture until it is all evenly coated being careful not to break the cereal pieces.
• Grab a gallon-sized plastic bag (like a Ziplock bag) and add all the powdered sugar to the bag. Toss in the coated cereal and shake until all the powdered sugar adheres to the cereal. (You might need two bags to fit it all)
• Place cereal mixture into a clean large bowl and then stir in the mini pretzels, mini peanut butter cups, Christmas M&M's, salted peanuts, and white chocolate chips.

REINDEER SNACK MIX

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 250°. Place first 6 ingredients in a large bowl. In a microwave, melt butter; stir in remaining ingredients. Drizzle over snack mixture; toss to combine. Transfer to an ungreased 15x10x1-in. pan., Bake 1 hour, stirring every 15 minutes. Cool completely before storing in an airtight container.

REINDEER FOOD SNACK MIX

Steps:

• In an extra-large bowl, combine together the cereal, pretzels and peanuts. Prep a large rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper. Melt the white wafers according the instructions on the packaging. When the white wafers are melted (about a minute and a half) pour in over the mixture in the bowl. Stir the ingredients gently.Transfer your ingredients to the prepared baking sheet, but, evenly distributing everything.
• Melt your green wafers as indicated on the packaging.Then you can place the melted wafers in a piping bag when cool enough and decorate the the mix.If you do not have a piping bag however, simply use a large zip top bag and cut the corner.You can then sprinkle the toppings over the mixture.Allow this to sit for 45 minutes to set before serving.

REINDEER SNACK

Steps:

• Heat oven to 300ºF.
• Mix popcorn, snacks, pretzels and cereal in large bowl. Mix remaining ingredients; drizzle over popcorn mixture, tossing until evenly coated. Spread in ungreased jelly roll pan, 15 1/2x10 1/2X1 inch.
• Bake uncovered 15 minutes, stirring twice; cool. Store loosely covered at room temperature up to 2 weeks.
• Microwave Directions:
• Place butter, chili powder and garlic in 3-quart microwavable casserole or bowl. Microwave uncovered on High about 1 minute or until butter is melted; stir. Stir in popcorn, snacks, pretzels and cereal. Toss until well coated. Microwave uncovered 6 to 8 minutes, stirring every 2 minutes, until toasted; cool.

REINDEER PUPPY CHOW MIX

Steps:

• Combine sugar and cocoa powder in 2-gal. resealable plastic bag.
• Microwave semi-sweet chocolate in large microwaveable bowl on HIGH 1-1/2 min.; stir. Microwave additional 30 sec.; stir until chocolate is completely melted. Add cereal; toss until evenly coated. Add to sugar mixture in bag; close bag. Shake gently to evenly coat cereal mixture with sugar mixture.
• Add pretzels; shake gently. Repeat with nuts, candy-coated chocolate pieces and sprinkles.

CHRISTMAS REINDEER MIX

Steps:

• Mix wheat chex, rice chex, corn chex, cheerios, peanuts, m&m, in a large bowl.
• Spread a large sheet of wax paper over counter top.
• Melt white chocolate squares in microwave.
• Pour melted chocolate over mixture.
• Mix together very fast.
• Spread evenly over wax paper and let dry, then break apart and you have a great choc snack !