Monkey See Monkey Do Some Monkey Munch

posted on: Monday, February 23, 2009

On Thursday one of my favorite food bloggers, The Food Librarian, posted a genius recipe called the Monkey Munch. On Friday I read her post and an hour later I was eating these little things none stop. It's cereal covered in chocolate and peanut butter. I think it's genius how Americans love getting perfectly un-sugared cereal and covering it in marshmallows and butter (rice krispie treats make my top 5 list of desserts), or in chocolate and peanut butter. Are there any other desserts I should know about that involves cereal? If so tell me PLEASE. The original recipe calls for chex cereal. I had 3 boxes of crunchy corn bran cereal so I used those instead. To see a way better picture of some Monkey Munch and for a more detailed post visit the Food Librarian.

Monkey Munch
4 cups Crunchy Corn Bran cereal
1/2 cup chocolate chips
1/4 cup peanut butter
1/8 cup butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup powdered sugar

  1. Melt the chocolate chips, peanut butter and butter in the microwave. It took me 3 minutes because my microwave does not heat well. It should only take you 1-2 minutes
  2. Stir till smooth than add the vanilla
  3. Mix the cereal into the melted mixture and place the whole thing in a zip lock bag with the powdered sugar.
  4. Shake and spread out on a cookie sheet and let cool for a couple minutes before storing it in an air tight container.
p.s I made this with my 2 year old and he wwas able to pretty much do everything by himself. It's a really fun recipe to do with kids

8 comments:

  1. Toss in powdered sugar and you've got Puppy Chow! Yum!

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  2. I have been loving white chocolate covered chex, pretzels, and peanut m&m's. I ate like three bowls of that stuff this Christmas.

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  3. Mariko,
    you were eating white chocolate covered pretzels during Christmas time? like when we were next door and you weren't sharing?

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  4. Nossa Damaris! Eu vou ter que sair e comprar os ingredientes já! Uma mulher onde eu trabalho fez isso e até hoje eu tenho controlado a tentação e não fiz. Mas tudo bem. Cereal tem vitaminas, não é?! :o)

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  5. I've made this a few times too. Very yummy. good Idea using differnt cereal. I'll have to try that.

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  6. We are definitely going to make this and I'm really excited.

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  7. I love this recipe! I think when I made it, it was called Muddy Buddies, though. but I love the name Monkey Munch, too! Cool that Enzo could do so much. Moana's little Carlina loves helping in the kitchen, even when the task is a bit challenging (we just made homemade Oreos, which was time-consuming and a little tricky so it was hard to have her help). Cereal desserts are the way to go with kids!

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  8. Damaris, So glad you made this! What a great change in cereal too (after eating this though, I think liver and onions would be delicious rolled in chocolate, peanut butter and powdered sugar!) :)

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