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This sweet Chex mix recipe (oven baked) is the perfect snack for those chilly fall days. Pumpkin pie spice and brown sugar add the best flavor!
Why You Will Love This Recipe
One of my favorite things in the world is a crunchy snack. I love to munch on potato chips, crackers, and just about anything else that falls into that category. The easy recipe I’m sharing today is delicious and addicting, so watch out! This sweet and salty Chex mix recipe is a combination of sugar and spice…which in my book, is a match made in heaven. It’s the perfect treat for game day, movie night, holiday parties, and family gatherings. It calls for simple ingredients, all readily available at your grocery store.
Ingredient Notes + Variations
- Salted butter or unsalted butter can be used.
- This sweet Chex mix recipe can, of course, be adapted to any season. For Christmas, make sweet holiday Chex mix by adding red & green M & M’s. For the spring and summer months, add mini marshmallows, raisins, or Craisins.
- More add-ins: coconut flakes, Reese’s pieces, dark chocolate chips, semi sweet chocolate chips, white chocolate chips, peanut butter chips, butterscotch chips.
How To Make
- Preheat oven to 275 degrees F.
- Line one large or two small cookie sheets with parchment paper. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, add all the cereal pieces, pretzels, and peanuts. Set aside.
- Put butter in a small microwave safe bowl. Melt butter in microwave, about 1 minute.
- Add light brown sugar, vanilla extract, and pumpkin pie spice to the melted butter.
- Stir very well and pour over the cereal mixture.
- Gently toss the cereal/butter mixture until well mixed.
- Pour cereal mixture onto prepared cookie sheet and spread out evenly in a single layer.
- Bake for 45 minutes. Remove the cookie sheet from the oven every 15 minutes and toss the mixture so it bakes evenly.
- Cool completely.
- Add candy corn and toss so everything is mixed together.
- Store in an air-tight container for up to 1 week.
Tips For The Best Sweet Chex Mix
- This big batch of sweet Chex mix is lightly coated and very crunchy. If you would like a thicker coating, the ingredients can be increased. Just use 1/2 cup of butter, 1/2 cup of brown sugar, 3 teaspoons of vanilla, and 3 teaspoons of pumpkin pie spice.
- For a gluten-free snack: substitute gluten-free pretzels for regular pretzels, and use gluten-free candy corn. The traditional Brach’s candy corn is not gluten-free.
- Store this Chex cereal mix at room temperature in an airtight container. It’s best when eaten in the first few days, but stays fresh for up to 2 weeks. If you want to make it in advance, it freezes very well. Put the mix in a resealable freezer bag, remove as much air as possible, and freeze for up to 2 months.
- This recipe fits perfectly in four quart-size mason jars. (They also help with portion control!)
- Tip from a reader: make it in the slow cooker! Cook it for 3 hours on low, stirring every hour, and then stir every 15 minutes the last hour.
This sweet and salty snack mix is a definite crowd pleaser. It satisfies your sweet tooth, but it’s also a great way to curb your urge for a crunchy snack. Try it out for your next party, or take a huge bowl to your next potluck. I promise it will be a huge hit!
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Sweet Chex Mix Recipe: Oven Baked
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- 6 tablespoons butter
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
- 2 cups Cinnamon Chex Cereal
- 2 cups Honey Nut Chex Cereal
- 2 cups Rice Chex Cereal
- 2 cups mini pretzels
- 2 cups lightly salted peanuts
- 1 to 2 cups candy corn
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 275 degrees F.
- Line a large cookie sheet with parchment paper. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, add all cereals, pretzels, and peanuts. Set aside.
- Put butter in a small microwave safe bowl. Melt in microwave, about 1 minute.
- Add brown sugar, vanilla, and pumpkin pie spice to the melted butter.
- Stir very well and pour over the cereal mixture.
- Gently toss the cereal/butter mixture until well mixed.
- Pour cereal mixture onto prepared cookie sheet and spread out evenly.
- Bake for 45 minutes. Remove the cookie sheet from the oven every 15 minutes and toss the mixture so it bakes evenly.
- Cool completely.
- Add candy corn and toss so everything is mixed together.
- Store in an airtight container.
If you make this recipe, and love it, please come back to leave a comment and a 5-star review. I would really appreciate it, and it would help me so much. Thank you!
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Just made a huge batch of this for a baby shower. It was requested by the new mother! I used my big electric turkey roaster with a liner bag.
This snack is scrumptious! I love it that I can have confidence in all your recipes- that they will be delicious, easy and always turn out perfectly- even if I’m trying them for the first time just before guests arrive. Love your blog!
So yummy. My guys love it!
Made this for a fall festival bake sale and it is so good! I doubled the dry ingredients and tripled the wet, and will definitely make this again :)
Sounds so nummy. One of our favorites is to mix candy corn with dry roasted peanuts. Tastes like a Minnesota creation Salted Nut Roll😋
Ann,
I just made this Chex mix recipe tonight and it is delicious! What a wonderful recipe.
We handed out a few quart jars to neighbors, as my husband and I couldn’t possibly eat 4 quarts!
In the next few days, I plan on trying your breakfast cookies!
Thank you so much for your wonderful blog, website and beautiful ideas!
I appreciate it!
Have a great rest of the week!
My family and I love snacks such as this. I will be making this tomorrow. Yours looks yummy! Thanks for sharing.
I just found your site through stonegableblog.com
I made this last year for my friends at work! It was very much appreciated and gobbled up quickly!
Although I have not tried it with this recipe, I use wide mouth canning jars and a vacuum seal pump to seal up the jars of a wide variety of foods.
Since I don’t eat a lot of cereal, I’ll probably seal the extra chex in their own jars, or even make a jars of the three flavors and the pretzels to make it easier to make up an new batch of treats.
I made this for my husband this week and he loves it! Thanks for the inspiration.
An easy and tasty recipe!!! Thanks, Ann! Since it is still so hot, I decided to make mine in the crockpot (a different yet similar recipe suggested) for 3 hours on low, stirring every hour and every 15 minutes the last hour. It turned out beautifully!
To make this at Christmas-time, do you use pumpkin spice flavor or something else?
Hi Cynthia! Yes I think you could still use the pumpkin pie spice, but a good substitute would be cinnamon…maybe mixed with a little nutmeg. Enjoy!
Ann, I love your website. On days when I don’t have time to read everything in my mailbox I always read yours. I have decorated with navy blue, camel, and cream for years and also like to change my decorations with the holidays and seasons. Your home gives me fun and practical ideas. I have prepared numerous recipes of yours which are always delicious. I will be trying this Sweet Chex Mix recipe as soon as I can go to the store for the ingredients. Looking forward to your next post.
Ann,
I’m new to your blog and I just wanted to tell you how much I love it! I’ve been printing recipe after recipe from your collection. Thank you for the breath of fresh air in my inbox and for the great inspirations you share here. I’m a native Southern Californian but we bought a house in Indiana to spend some months away from the craziness and I finally feel so much peace here. You have captured the heart of this east Midwest area of the country and all of the gorgeous green, changing leaves and kindness I love so much! Not to mention that you are Catholic Mom, another thing I deeply appreciate! Thank you! ❤
Ann- girl, you are a delight to me! I LOVE your website, it’s among my favorites! I always look forward to seeing your email entry in my thread!
Keep up the great work! You are a gift from God to us all!