Tried and true Chex Mix recipe?

We actually prefer the Crispex mix recipe. We love it for a snack all year round and often make it with just the cereal!

Crispex Mix Recipe

Yep. I find I like it when I double the seasoning/sauce

My absolute favorite one is the one from Crispix (which I use as the cereal because it is both corn and rice, but you could do half corn chex and half rice chex). I like it because it tastes like the chex mix I used to get at the grocery store deli. I always add a cup of cheerios to it, and lots of mixed nuts (including macadamias if I feel like splurging). And I never measure seven cups of cereal-- I always just pour some into my 9x13 pan because that's how much room I have to work with. I spread it on paper towels after it's done in the oven-- absorbs some of the extra oil.

www.kelloggs.com/en_US/recipes/crispix-mix-original-recipe.html

I like the traditional Chex Mix recipe. I make a huge batch using my electric roasting pan.

Same here. My grandma used to make chex mix for Christmas every year, except we called it trash. When I moved out and started making it on my own, it always tasted off. Eventually found out she never put in garlic or onion seasonings. It was just butter, Worcestershire sauce, and seasoned salt. So that is how I make the sauce and put it over the three kinds of chex cereal, sometimes I throw in pretzels or cheerios.

But never nuts. Blergh.

Pioneer Woman's Chex party mix. I have been using her recipe since I discovered her blog which is like ten years ago

I really don't measure. I use cheerios, corn chex goldfish, peanuts, pecans then pour it over a mixture of margarine, salt, garlic powder, onion powder and Worcester sauce. I stir, put in the oven (in a roaster pan) at 425 for the first eight minutes, stir, turn it down to 350 and stir every eight minutes for about an hour or until it is no longer greasy or shiny.
I'm craving some right now.LOL

Another recipe like above I like is the hot mini crackers, called firecrackers.

I use a whole stick of butter too.  I use 2 1/2 teaspoons of seasoned salt and 2tbsp of Worcestershire.  I don't use the garlic salt and whatever else is on the box.  
As I'm heating my oven to 250, I cut up that stick of butter and allow it to melt in my big 9x13 pyrex dish.  Then I add the seasonings.  
I measure all of my ingredients in a large mixing bowl before I put it in the butter.  Otherwise, whatever goes in first soaks up all the butter.  
I also add a cup of pretzels and a cup of mixed nuts and about a handful of regular nuts.  I don't use the full 3 cups of wheat chex because I don't like them as much as the corn and rice.  
I bake it all for one hour but stir it every 15 minutes.  
I let it cool for a bit when it is done and put it in a ziplock or this huge tupperware bowl I have that my dd calls the Chex Mix bowl.  


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I'm a Chex Mix junkie. I make the recipe off the back of the box, but I use McCormick's steak seasoning instead of seasoned salt. And I don't use mixed nuts, usually...I do a mix of pecans and cashews, sometimes peanuts, too. Oh, and I don't use bagel chips. Sometimes I throw in Cheerios. I tried it with Goldfish crackers a few months ago and that was okay. I love Wheat Chex so that always gets included. I used to do it for an hour in the oven, but a big glass bowl in the microwave is super fast and just as good so that's how I do it now.

I never thought about doubling the sauce...I think next time I'll try making half again as much and see how that tastes. I was planning on making a big batch this week for a holiday party so this will be a good time to try that.

We make extra sauce but we had a problem this year of some of it coming out soggy and never crisping up. anyone have that problem before?

My co-worker always brings this to the holiday potluck, I hate it!

I make a Italian-ish version that my Gramma always made. Per one box of corn Chex melt one stick of butter and toss with Chex. Bake at 250, stirring every 15 minutes. At the 30 minute mark I mix one cup of grated Parmesan with Italian seasoning, garlic, onion powder, and lots of dill and toss over Chex. The last 15 minutes I add slivered almonds and butter pretzels.

I also double the sauce, or in my case, half the cereals because that's all my largest bowl will fit

I also add Cheerios and dry roasted peanuts and skin on peanuts. I don't do the bagel chips. I also use smoky paprika and chili seasoning as part of my spices.