You know everyone always leaves cookies and milk out for Santa but we usually don't think to leave something out for the reindeer. They work hard too. So mix up a batch of this reindeer food and you will have some happy reindeer at your house. But you better hurry, Christmas Eve is right around the corner.
I think your little "deer" at home will love this reindeer food.
Most snack mixes will start with some kind of cereal.
Melt 1 stick of butter. I actually think you can use a little less butter or add a little extra cereal.
1 cup corn Chex cereal
1 cup rice Chex cereal
1 cup Cheerios. I used plan Cheerios but you could throw caution to the wind and use one of the flavored Cheerios.
1 cup salted mixed nuts or you could use all of what ever is your favorite nut.
Mix the cereal and nuts together.
Pour the melted butter over the mixture. I doubled my recipe that is why it says 1 cup of melted butter.
Pour all around the bowl. Toss to coat all of the cereal.
Then spread out on a baking sheet. I lined it with parchment. Place in a preheated 250 oven. I had two trays and I used both racks in the oven. Bake for 60 minutes. Every 15 minutes I rotated the trays between the racks and at 30 minutes I stirred and tossed.
While the cereal is baking I mixed up the other items. 1 cup small pretzels
1 cup of Boston Baked Beans candy. This was hard to find. They are also hard pieces. So you might could find something to swap out or just not add this.
1 cup holiday M&M's
1 cup dried cranberries
Toss all this together and wait for the cereal to cook and cool.
This is after an hour baking.
I combined all of it on one baking sheet to cool.
Then added it to the pretzel mixture.
Then serve. But be sure to save some for Rudolph.
Reindeer Food Recipe
1 cup corn Chex cereal
1 cup rice Chex cereal
1 cup Cheerios
1 cup salted mixed nuts
1/2 cup melted butter
Mix and bake at 250 for 1 hour
1 cup mini pretzels
1 cup Boston Baked Beans candy
1 cup Christmas M&M's
1 cup dried cranberries
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