Buffalo Ranch Chex Mix

Ingredients:

1 bag bugles

1 box rice chex

10 oz. can dry roasted peanuts
1 package pretzels

1 box Cheez-Its zesty ranch crackers

¼ cup buffalo sauce

½ stick butter

1 ranch packet

Combine bugles, chex, pretzels and peanuts in a large bowl.  Melt butter and whisk together with buffalo sauce and ranch packet.  Pour over mixture and toss to combine.  Bake at 250 for one hour, stirring every 15 minutes.  Break cheez-its into smaller pieces and add to mixture.  Store in an air tight container.  

Note: This makes a HUGE batch! 

5 minute caramel bugles with double chocolate drizzle

This snack is basically better than anything Bugles! They are sweet, salty, and extremely addicting. It's almost dangerous that they are so quick and easy to make!

Ingredients:

8 cups Bugles (1 regular size bag)

¾ cups brown sugar

6 T. butter

3 T. light corn syrup

¼ tsp. baking soda

¼ c. white chocolate chips

¼ c. semisweet chocolate

Measure Bugles. Set aside. Line baking sheet with wax paper.

Add butter, brown sugar, and corn syrup to a large microwavable bowl. Microwave one minute. Stir. Continue to microwave in 30 second intervals until the mixture is smooth and creamy. Add baking soda and stir until combined.

Add Bugles to butter mixture. Microwave in one minute increments, stirring after each minute. Microwave for a total of three minutes.  Pour Bugle mixture onto wax paper.

Put semisweet chocolate chips in a snack size seal-able bag. Leave the bag unsealed and microwave for two minutes, at half power. Seal bag and kneed until chocolate chips are completely melted. Snip a small triangle off the corner or the bag and drizzle over Caramel Bugles.  Repeat with white chocolate chips. Cool completely and store in an air tight container.

** The snack size baggie chocolate drizzle didn’t work for me so I just went to a bowl and a fork.  

Cheesy Ranch Snack Mix

Ingredients:

6 oz. package pretzels

6 oz. package Bugles (plain or cheese flavored)

1/2 box miniature club crackers

6 oz. package goldfish crackers (cheese flavored)

1 can mixed nuts

1 envelope dry ranch mix

8 oz. butter flavored popcorn oil 

Mix crackers, pretzels, nuts in bowl.  In separate bowl mix ranch and popcorn oil.  Pour ranch and popcorn oil over crackers, pretzels and nuts.  Shake so everything is covered well.  Spread on two cookie sheets.  Bake 250 for 45 minutes, stirring every 15 minutes.  Cool completely before storing.  Makes a large batch!

This snack mix is totally addicting! How can you go wrong with cheese, ranch and salty goodness? Great for parties or to take along on a road trip.