Valentine’s Day Recipes: How To Make Valentines Day Muddy Buddies!

I love Valentine’s Day, and making Valentine’s Day recipes is so exciting.  My kids have been asking me to make them homemade Muddy Buddies, so here you are, a Valentine’s Day recipe just for you – How To Make Valentines Day Muddy Buddies.

Homemade Muddy Buddies are amazing, adding some color just makes them that much better.  My poor husband, he told me the other day that I was taking Valentine’s Day a little too serious, because everything I make is pink, lol.  He knew when he married me how much I loved pink, and Valentine’s Day was my favorite time of year because it gave me an excuse to use pink on everything.

Anyway, let’s get back on the subject of how to make Valentines Day Muddy Buddies.  Which are amazing and I think you will love, but Muddy Buddies are not your thing you can alway check out our Valentines Day Trail Mix.  You can add or take out anything you like, make it as healthy or unhealthy as you want!   You can also check out my 10 favorite Valentine’s Day recipes.

We recently made some Valentine’s Day Muddy Buddies!  They are super easy, loads of fun, and taste fabulous!  

How To Make Valentine’s Day Muddy Buddies!

What you are going to need to make Valentine’s Day Muddy Buddies

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How To Make Valentine’s Day Muddy Buddies With Pictures

First you will need to grab a large mixing bowl, and place your Chex cereal in it.  

In a medium-sized pan you will place your chocolate chips, peanut butter, and butter.  Melt over a medium heat, be sure to stir consistently.  When your mixture is almost melted add the vanilla extract, and stir together until completely melted.  Be careful, it’s hot!  LOL, yes I burn myself almost every single time during this step for some reason. 

 I always move my chocolate mixture from the hot pan to a bowl.  It makes it easier to handle, since we already know I tend to burn myself.

Next pour mixture over the Chex cereal a little at a time, mix, and add more.  

Continue to pour mixture over cereal and mix until all cereal is covered as even as possible.

The best way I have found to make sure everything is covered evenly,  is to use a spatula to mix, and slide across the top of the cereal.

Next place your powder sugar into a large zip-lock baggy.

Pour in cereal, and “Shake It Up Baby”! Yup, have some fun, let the kids shake it, until all the cereal is nice and covered with powder sugar.  I always leave in baggy for 5 to 10 minutes to allows everything to cool, and stick together.

Next pour into a bowl.  Typically, I will pour back into mixing bowl I originally had Chex cereal in.  Washed of course.  I didn’t do that for this one becasue I wanted to show you the difference.  My sister-n-law leaves the extra powder sugar, and I don’t like it.  So I will place is back in a large mixing bowl and shake the bowl of Valentines Day Muddie Buddies for a few minutes to make all the extra powder sugar fall to the bottom of the bowl.  You will see the difference in the below picture.  LOL, sorry but that extra powder sugar drives me nuts. 

It’s looking better.  I’m almost done shaking, but you can already see the difference.  

We are done!  Yepie, we have gotten rid of all that extra powder sugar, lol.  I know, but it really bothers me.  I hate having extra powder sugar on things.  Now you can move your Valentine’s Day Muddy Buddies to serving dish, or place them into a baggy for storage.  

Now you know How To Make Valentine’s Day Muddy Buddies!  Enjoy!

If you like this post be sure to check out:

• Valentines Day Trail Mis Recipe 
• 10 of my Favorite Valentine’s Day recipes