Description
This colorful Santa’s Christmas Snack Mix comes together quickly and adds instant holiday magic to any celebration. Each festive handful is packed with snowball cereal, crunchy, sweet, and festive flavors, and the cutest homemade Santa Hats tucked in for a whimsical surprise.
Ingredients
Scale
- 5 cups Kix cereal
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 3 cups Chex cereal
- 3 cups mini pretzels (twists or sticks)
- 2 cups roasted peanuts (lightly salted)
- 2 cups white pretzels
- 2 cups mini marshmallows
- 2 cups M&M’s (red and green)
- 2 cups Santa hats
- 1 cup bugle corn snacks
- 1 cup red candy melts
- 1 cup white candy melts (or white chocolate)
- 2 tablespoons red sanding sugar
- tiny marshmallows (optional)
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, combine Kix cereal and powdered sugar. Toss gently, coating the cereal with the powdered sugar, creating snowballs.
- Add in Chex cereal, mini pretzels, peanuts, white pretzels, and marshmallows.
- Stir in the Christmas M&M’s and Santa Hats.
- Transfer to an airtight container or portion into holiday bags/containers for gifting.
- Use Bugles corn snacks as the hat base.
- Dip the pointed end into melted red candy melts (or white chocolate dyed red with gel food coloring). Dip the hollow end into melted white candy melts or white chocolate.
- Sprinkle top with red sanding sugar.
- Place on parchment paper until set.
- Add a dab of white candy melt on the tip for the pom-pom or use tiny marshmallows.
- Let dry completely before mixing into the snack mix.
Notes
- Perfect for gifting
- Great for holiday parties
- Can be left out for Santa on Christmas Eve
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Category: Snack
- Method: Mixing
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cup
- Calories: 589
- Sugar: 30 g
- Sodium: 200 mg
- Fat: 24 g
- Saturated Fat: 5 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 15 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 86 g
- Fiber: 2 g
- Protein: 11 g
- Cholesterol: 0 mg