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This caramel Cheerios Snack Mix recipe is a sweet indulgence, perfect for party food. Imagine cereal combined with nuts, pretzels, and other snack foods, topped with a sweet caramel sauce. Once it cools, it turns into an addictive, crunchy finger food.
I was at a party once where someone served what I thought was the tastiest snack I’d ever had. I feel like that with about every new snack I try. This one was a Caramel Snack Mix and I knew within minutes of trying it that I had to make some!
And of course, any time I make something myself, that means I have to embellish the caramel snacks recipe too.
Key Ingredients
You can find the full printable recipe, including ingredient quantities, below. But first, here are some explanations of ingredients and steps to help you make this recipe perfect every time.
Here are the ingredients you’ll need for this recipe, including substitution ideas:
- Vegan butter — Use Earth Balance, Miyokos, or even your own homemade vegan butter.
- Brown sugar — Use light, dark, or your own brown sugar.
- Light corn syrup
- Vanilla
- Baking soda
- Cheerios
- Pretzel pieces
- Peanuts
- Snack food — add your favorite snacks like roasted nuts, raisins, or even some vegan popcorn
- Sprinkles(optional)
How to Make Caramel Snack Mix Recipe
- Lightly grease a cookie sheet with vegetable oil spray and set aside.
- Add the vegan butter to a saucepan and cook on medium low until melted. Add syrup and brown sugar and cook 5 minutes, stirring constantly.
- Remove from heat and add baking soda and vanilla. Add the cheerios, pretzel pieces and nuts and stir to coat evenly.
- Spread the mixture out on a cookie sheet and place in 200 degree oven for 20 minutes, stirring every 10 minutes.
- Allow the snack mix to cool and then break into pieces by hand.
Marly’s Tips
I used cheerios, but you can use other crispy cereal, such as chex and/or crispix cereal as well.
Marly’s Tips
- Be sure and have a pan prepared ahead of time with parchment paper. I love these tips from the Kitchn on using Parchment Paper.
- Make sure you use a large saucepan because when you add the baking soda, the mixture will “foam up” and expand
- Do not touch the mixture once you’ve combined the caramel sauce over the cereal. Use a spatula to stir it and pour it into the prepared pan (because it’s very hot)
- Allow the coated cereal mix to cool completely before breaking it into pieces.
- Add chex cereal to transform this into a caramel chex mix recipe or use Crispix cereal for a caramel crispix mix!
More Snacks
If you love vegan sweets, be sure to check these out:
Vegan Cheez-Its
27 mins total
Vegan Cheese Ball
45 mins total
Vegan Puppy Chow
10 mins total
Gluten-Free Chex Mix
21 mins total
That’s it for this Cheerios Snack Mix recipe. Enjoy!
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Caramel Cheerios Snack Mix
Stop and smell the Cheerios Snack Mix cooking up in your kitchen. This super easy recipe is a family favorite and plays well with guests too!
5 from 1 vote
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Course: Snack
Cuisine: American
Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 15 minutes minutes
Total Time: 25 minutes minutes
Servings: 8
Calories: 252kcal
Author: Marly McMillen
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup vegan butter
- 1 cup brown sugar
- ¼ cup light corn syrup
- ½ tablespoon vanilla
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- 4 cups Cheerios
- 1 cup pretzel pieces
- 1 cup peanuts
- 1 cup of a favorite snack food like roasted soynuts, raisins, or even popcorn
- sprinkles optional
Instructions
Lightly grease a cookie sheet with vegetable oil spray and set aside.
Place stick of vegan butter in a saucepan and cook on medium low until melted. Add syrup and brown sugar and cook 5 minutes, stirring constantly.
Remove from heat and add baking soda and vanilla. Add the cheerios, pretzel pieces and nuts and stir to coat evenly.
Spread the mixture out on a cookie sheet and place in 200 degree oven for 20 minutes, stirring every 10 minutes.
Allow the snack mix to cool and then break into pieces by hand.
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Calories: 252kcal | Carbohydrates: 57g | Protein: 11g | Fat: 21g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Sodium: 331mg | Potassium: 411mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 35g | Vitamin A: 885IU | Vitamin C: 2.8mg | Calcium: 104mg | Iron: 5.4mg
The nutrition information shown is an estimate provided by an online nutrition calculator and should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice.
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This post was originally published in 2010 and was updated to include new photos, new text, and an updated recipe in 2020.
