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The Best Puppy Chow Ever!

One of my boards on Pinterest is dedicated to baking and I recently pinned a website that offers so many different ways to make puppy chow! here's the link if you would like to see all the different recipes she has to offer.

So because I was heading off to a bachelorette party, I figured the best kind of puppy chow to make for this occasion was red velvet puppy chow! Ok, let me start by saying if you're on some sort of diet or can't have puppy chow, stop reading right now. Not only will this recipe tempt you into having puppy chow, but it will also cause you to eat MASSIVE amounts of it. Sorry not sorry :)

Here's the ingredients

• 5 cups rice chex cereal
• 3/4 cup white chocolate melts or chips
• 1/4 cup chocolate melts or chips
• 2 oz cream cheese, room temp.
• 1 and 1/2 Tbsp of milk
• 1 cup Red Velvet Cake mix
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• valentines colored M&M's or other candies
• heart sprinkles for extra decoration

When it came to the day of the party, I figured I would double the recipe. I mean get a bunch of girls together with a bowl of puppy chow, there better be enough for everyone x2. I found out the recipe works better with these measurements. If you have to make double, I would make two separate batches with these measurements, instead of trying to throw everything together. 

Here's what you do:
1. Measure out Rice Chex and place into a large bowl. 

2. Put cake mix and powdered sugar into a large plastic bag or a Tupperware dish with a lid. I used a large plastic ziplock back as you can see below. 

3. Melt chocolates together in the microwave or on the stove top. Careful not to burn the chocolate. 

4. Once the chocolate is melted, stir in the cream cheese and the milk. The mixture will get thick but that's ok. After everything is melted together your mixture should look like this. 

5. Pour chocolate mixture over the rice chex cereal and mix until the cereal is coated well. Mine looked like this. 

6. Dump the coated cereal into the bag or Tupperware dish that has the cake mix and powdered sugar into it. Shake the bag until the chex mix is coated. 

7. Dump the puppy chow onto a cookie sheet and let it cool. Once its cooled, you can mix in your candies and your sprinkles! Once I dumped my puppy chow onto the cookie sheet, I noticed that it looked more reddish brownish than the normal white puppy chow. That's ok! The Red Velvet Cake mix will do that to the puppy chow and it still tastes great!

NOTE: if you don't plan on eating the puppy chow that day, keep it in the fridge because it contains cream cheese and milk. If you don't want to put cream cheese in the chocolate mixture that's fine too. If you don't use cream cheese, that means you don't need the milk!

Enjoy the puppy chow guys! Happy Baking!