Jul 09 2008
Monkey Munch Recipe
If you watch the tv show Jon & Kate Plus 8 on TLC, you know what monkey munch is ;). If not, this is a snack that both the kids and parents just love. Here’s the recipe for it:
Monkey Munch
9 cups Chex cereal (any variety)
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/4 cup butter or margarine
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
Stove Method Directions:
- Measure cereal into a large bowl & set aside.
- Heat chocolate chips, peanut butter and the butter over low heat until melted. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla.
- Pour the melted chocolate mixture over the cereal and stir until evenly coated.
- Pour the mix into a 2 gallon ziploc bag and add powdered sugar, seal bag.
- Shake bag until everything’s well coated then spread the mix on waxed paper to cool.
- Refrigerate in an airtight container.
Microwave Method Directions:
- Place the chocolate chips, peanut butter and butter in a microwaveable bowl and melt uncovered on High for 1 minute. Stir.
- Microwave for another 30 seconds or until mixture is stirred smooth.
- Stir in the vanilla.
- Follow the rest of the directions as above in the Stove Method.
You can also find the recipe on the Chex website here.
By the way, I totally love this on the Discovery/TLC website for the Jon & Kate show:
- Chase 8 kids for 15 minutes putting on 56 pieces of clothing.
- Cook 16 pancakes
- Clean 80 sticky fingers
- Do 5 loads of laundry
- Make 8 trips to the potty
- Congratulations, you just got through breakfast.
Can you imagine! LOL!
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09 Jul 2008 at 8:57 am
I love this show!
Monkey Munch sounds SO good! No wonder those kids love it!
09 Jul 2008 at 11:15 am
I’ve been making and eating this for YEARS, but we called it “Chex Dog Food”. I don’t know where we got the recipe from, I think it was the side of a Chex box. Or from friends. It really could be either.
09 Jul 2008 at 11:21 am
Hi piekid, on the Chex recipe page they have a note that another popular name for this is “puppy food”, that’s very similar to your name for the snack. Dog food doesn’t sound as cute as Monkey Munch though does it, lol!
09 Jul 2008 at 7:19 pm
My mom used to make this when I was a kid. She called it people chow, though. Doesn’t matter what you call it, it’s still a huge hit with kids! I make it for mine now and they go nuts over it.
14 Jul 2008 at 7:04 pm
Yep, I’m another one whose family loves this stuff! I really like the name “Monkey Munch” so much better than puppy chow though. That’s what I’m going to call it from now on.
16 Jul 2008 at 5:54 am
I have tried making the Monkey Munch with plain Cheerios and it worked exactly the same! Hope that helpfull to anybody who doesn’t have chex cereal!
16 Jul 2008 at 1:21 pm
i absolutely love jon and kate plus eight! they are ordinary people living in an extraordinary circumstance and doing a great job at it! also, while researching a recipe for monkey munch, i came across another name for it, which is Muddy Buddies! too cute!
15 Aug 2008 at 6:07 am
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