Gifts From the Kitchen, Reindeer Food

the Painted Apron

3 years ago

Part of my extended family is coming over today for a safe visit,

we will be outside for just an hour or so

A short visit,

we can’t break our tradition of celebrating Christmas Eve day together!

Santa’s not joining us this year,

he wants to stay safe so he can deliver the toys …

The kids will be getting bags of Reindeer food to take home

and set out with cookies for Santa

Big E helped make the reindeer food

It’s made with Kix cereal, peanut butter, white chocolate,

powdered sugar, cinnamon and M & Ms

Variations:

substitute another cereal for the Kix, like Chex, or Cheerios

Use white, milk or semi sweet chocolate chips instead of almond bark,

Substitute almond butter for peanut butter {peanut allergies}

Melt peanut butter and almond bark along with cinnamon

in a large bowl in the microwave

Cook for 1 minute on high,

then stir and continue cooking in 30 second intervals and stirring,

until mixture was thoroughly melted and combined

Put the cereal into a extra large mixing bowl

and pour melted mixture into the bowl

and stir, stir, stir, to coat

Divide the powdered sugar into into 2 large ziplock bags

Put 1/2 of coated cereal into each bag and seal

Shake, shake, shake to cover cereal

Empty the bags back into the extra large mixing bowl

and using a large spoon or a scoop, divide mixture into quart size ziplock bags

Divide M & Ms among bags,

adding some to each bag,

then seal bags and shake to mix

Put filled bags into small gift bags,

add Reindeer food label and secure with tape

Here is a printable sheet of labels, click here to print

Reindeer Food

Course Appetizer, Gift, Snack

Cuisine American

Keyword cereal and candy mix, Christmas snack mix, holiday, Kix candy mix, M & Ms snack mix, reindeer food, snack mix

Prep Time 30

Servings 12

Pour Kix into an extra large mixing bowl
put almond bark, peanut butter and cinnamon in another large microwaveable mixing bowl
Microwave on high for 1 minute, stir. Keep heating in 30 second intervals until mixture has melted, stirring to combine
Pour melted mixture over Kix and gently stir until cereal is all coated
Divide powdered sugar into 1 large ziplock bags
Scoop coated cereal into bags, about half of cereal mix in each bag. Seal bags closed and shake and toss until all cereal is coated with sugar
Pour the coated cereal back into the extra large mixing bowl.
Scoop mixture into individual quart or sandwich size ziplock bags
Divide M&Ms, putting some in each baggie. Seal bags and shake to mix
Place cereal mix into a gift bag and attach printed labels
Makes 12 bags