Bunny Chow

red bowl containing the bunny chow, a cereal treat

Puppy Chow, have you had it? And no, I’m not talking about literal dog food. I’m talking about Chex cereal treat (usually made around the holidays) made by mixing melted peanut butter and chocolate, coated in powdered sugar. It’s incredibly easy to make and is usually a crowd pleaser. While it doesn’t seem like it needs an upgrade, I wanted to make a totally different variation- maintaining the concept, but switching up the components. My version includes white chocolate (and, if you’re staying “I’m not a white chocolate person”, me either but this just works! And, the combination of white chocolate with the tahini balances our really nicely), tahini, and Corn Flakes (because I had half a box left and didn’t want to buy another box of cereal haha) instead. I came up with “Bunny Chow”, but since it’s not an official thing (yet!), I’m open to suggestions!
You can see the video with the steps here.

Ingredients:
200g (appx 7.5 cups) Corn Flakes cereal (but, you can really use any variation like Chex, Life, anything pretty bland in flavor but nice and crunchy)
3/4 cup of white chocolate
2/3 cup tahini
3 TBS butter
1 cup (or more) confectioners sugar

In a microwave safe bowl, add the white chocolate (I used the chips you find in the bag of your grocery store’s baking aisle, nothing fancy), tahini, and butter, and microwave for 30 seconds. Remove the bowl from the microwave, stir thoroughly, and put back in for another 20 seconds. The mixture should be melted and homogenous at this point (if not, put back in for another 10-15 seconds).
Put the cereal in a large mixing bowl. Pour the white chocolate mixture onto the cereal and mix so that the cereal is well coated.
Pour the cereal into a gallon-size plastic bag (or a big Tupperware-like container larger than the volume of the cereal), and pour in the confectioners sugar (I like to layer it a couple times for even distribution by putting some of the cereal mixture in, adding some of the sugar, another layer of the cereal, and so on). Zip up the bag and shake until it looks like all the sugar has been stuck to the cereal. The mixture shouldn’t be hot, but you can pour it out onto a pan so that it continues to “set” and you get some nice chunky pieces.
Enjoy!

katherine sprung