5/30/09

Homemade Chex Mix...



This is a great treat for the summer! This is also a recipe from Christy, but Kaitlin and I customized it, so I'll put what we did and you can make it your own too...

You will need:

1 1/2 cups sugar
1 1/2 cups corn syrup or honey ( I used half of each)
2 tablespoons coconut flavoring
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons butter
1 box of rice chex
1 small bag of coconut
1 small bag of chopped pecans
1 cup of powdered sugar
2 cups shaved chocolate (or choc chips)

DIRECTIONS:

Mix chex mix, coconut, nuts, and chocolate in a bowl. Boil sugar, corn syrup/honey, coconut flavoring and butter for 5 minutes. Pour over chex mix. Put wax paper oover a cookie sheet and then spread the chex mixture on top of wax paper. Sprinkle with the powdered sugar and let cool. YUMMMMM!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Double YUM, so I guess...YUM YUM!

The Recipe File

It was impossible to visit with Nana and not get into the recipe file. This is no small file. Tracy, Sydney and I have all at one time or another attempted to typeset the recipes in this file only to be overwhelmed. Since no one person is up to the task of immortalizing this life's work of recipes, it would be great if everyone participates. As you need recipes for different things you can take them and typeset them, or scan them however you would like to do them. Then post them on this site to contribute your part in all this.  Please add a label to your posts so we can eventually go in and organize by category. It was Nana's dream to have a book that would help us all with the various things we will make in our kitchens. She spent a lifetime perfecting her craft and was truly amazing. When we feel we have done her justice, we will organize a book and have copies printed for all of us. I hope as we contribute not only her recipes, but some of our own as well we will remember how much she loved to bring people together over good food. It will be such a tribute to her if we can enjoy this endeavor, enjoy each other and enjoy the memories we all have in our hearts.