Spicy Party Mix

Save your parchment paper and bowl for melting butter and just use a roasting pan. Melt the butter in the pan as you heat up the oven to temp. Add the Worcestershire sauce, hot sauce, garlic powder, onion powder, paprika, salt and pepper to the roasting pan. Then add the cereal mix a little at a time to the butter and seasonings. Stir the amount until the mixture sounds wet. Stir every 15 min for 1 hour.

I have been making chex mix once a month in the fall for years in a super large roasting pan (yield fills a 2-gallon ziplock bag). About ten years ago, I substituted sunflower or light olive oil for the butter and haven’t looked back. I use a mix of 1-1/2 cups oil and 1/2 cup Worcestershire sauce to coat all the dry ingredients. My family’s favorite recipe uses 3-4 packets of ranch seasoning to flavor the mix.

Not enough butter. For 16 total cups of crunchy mixture, 1/2 cup barely coated. I double the mixture & then it finally covered. I used Siracha for heat & sweet paprika. Yummy!!

I substitute a garlic clove grated on a Microplane into the butter, then as it melts, the garlic mellows a bit. That way I can skip the garlic powder altogether. I also up the Worcestshire to about 3-4 tablespoons, and use Siracha, which I think adds another level of flavor, making it preferable to a hot sauce like Tabasco.

Years ago, a professor brought in his wife's Texas Trash. She used a 1:1 ratio of melted butter to bacon drippings for the party mix. Sooo good.

This was a hit - made my second batch today. So much better than boxed at bagged snack versions at our grocery store. I halve the dry ingredients for our two-person household but, based on reviews, make with the full amount wet ingredients. The flavor is just right. Mini rice cakes are terrific as an add-in.

That's how my mom used to make it as well, Kate. And she always doubled the sauce from what the recipe on the Chex box said. Yum.

Definitely needed more of the butter mixture. Felt like the mix just wasn’t seasoned enough.

I agree with the doubling of the butter mix, one stick left much of the mix dry. DRY MIX IS SAD MIX.

I have made this in various themes for years. I like crispix instead of chex. They seem to crumble less. I add sesame stix. Unsalted nuts, delux mix . Tiny pretzels balls or alphabet pretzels, goldfish, or any crispy left over things, and at-least 1/4 cup of Worcestershire sauce. As well as the hot sauce , onion ( dried, I cheat) As above, melt butter while heating, add 1/2 at a time, stir a lot. Use a roasting pan. Much easier to stir.

This is my favorite recipe.My Favorite Party Mix Butter 4 Tbsp. Worcestershire sauce 1 tsp. garlic powder 1 tsp. onion powder 1 tsp. celery salt 1 tsp. ground red cayenne pepper Sack of Chex mix from Sam’s Cheerios, optional Bugles Pretzels, I usually get the pretzel gold fish Gold fish, original Oyster Crackers Pecans, lots of these because they give it the best flavor when cooking Mixed nuts English walnuts, optional Preheat oven 250 to 300 degrees. In big mixing bowl, mix the party mix, cheer

For me, Cheerios are a must-have. They absorbed the butter-spice mixture so well and are a crunchy flavor-bomb!

That’s the way i make it as well!

Agree with the other reviewers that there wasn’t enough flavor to go around. Next time double the flavorings and butter or cut down on the mix-ins.

continuedcheerios, pretzels, gold fish and oyster crackers and set aside. This will be enough for little over 2 makings. Put 2 sticks of butter (for each pan you cook) in 12 x 17 x 2-inch pan and put in oven until barely melted. Add Worcestershire sauce, garlic powder, onion powder, celery salt and red pepper and mix with butter. Add all nuts and bugles that you are going to use for this batch to the two sticks of butter melted. Lift from bottom of pan with spatula until all is coated.