Guest Post: Cake Batter Puppy Chow

Happy Family Day to those celebrating in Canada! Hope you all are having a nice day off of work. Today Kelsey from Candidly Kelsey is sharing an easy recipe for Valentine’s Day on the blog.

Welcome Kelsey!

Hello, A Live Well Consumed readers! My name is Kelsey and I blog over at CandidlyKelsey.com, a lifestyle, beauty, health & DIY blog. Today Leslie so graciously allowed me to bend your ear.

As Valentine’s Day is next weekend, I thought I’d share one of my favorite super easy and delicious treats you can give to your friends/family/co-workers for Valentine’s Day: Cake Batter Puppy Chow!

Fact: Everyone likes cake batter, so you cannot go wrong with a treat like this.  And it’s deceptively easy, so everyone will be very impressed with your skills, when all you really did is melt some candy in the microwave and shake some stuff up in a baggie.

As a treat for my coworkers, I like to add these to some tiny baggies, tie them up with red string and you have yourself a cute little gift!

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Cake Batter Puppy Chow

Course Dessert

Prep Time 40 minutes

Total Time 40 minutes

Servings 5 cups

Author Kelsey

Ingredients

• 5 cups of Chex cereal
• 6 squares of vanilla-flavored Almond Bark. If you can't find almond bark, 10oz of white candy melts or white chocolate will work just fine too!
• 1 tsp of almond extract
• 3/4 cup of sprinkles
• At least 1 1/2 cups of Funfetti powdered cake mix or more depending on how powdery you like yours
• Dark chocolate red and pink M&Ms optional

Instructions

1. Add the Chex to a large bowl, preferably with a lid. If you don't have one with a lid that sticks on tight, don't worry. You can use a large freezer ziploc baggie instead.
2. Melt the almond bark and almond extract in a microwave safe bowl, stirring every 30 seconds or so to ensure you don't over cook it and burn the candy.
3. When the almond bark is completely melted and smooth, pour it over the Chex and stir gently with a large spoon until all pieces are evenly coated. If this bowl has a lid, add the sprinkles and cake batter powder, put on the lid, and shake until all the pieces are coated completely with cake. If there is no lid, add the coated cereal to a ziploc baggie, add the sprinkles and cake mix, seal the baggie, and shake until evenly coated.
4. Use your preference for how powdery you like your mix. I like mine super powdery, so I probably used around 2 cups of cake mix.
5. Toss in your candy, and let the mix sit in the fridge until completely cooled; about 30 minutes.
6. Or, eat immediately because this is so delicious that you literally cannot wait for them to cool.
7. Add these to little decorative baggies and pass them out to you friends and watch everyone's eyes light up.
8. Soak up the compliments, as you immediately become their favorite person and everyone marvels at how great of a chef you are.

And that’s it! If you make these, please let me know! Take a picture and tag me on social media (iamkelskels on everything!) so I can see how yours turned out!
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