While at first glance, it may just look like a baggie filled with those Frosted Mini Wheats your mom used to stick in your lunchbox when she was too lazy to pack you a real dessert, in reality it is so, SO much more. Basically, these crunchy white cages of chocolate peanut butter goodness are the only snacks that have the ability to at least somewhat improve my last-minute-gov-paper-writing sessions at 1:00 a.m. Somewhat. Unfortunately, DREAM likes to tempt me with a bake sale one day, only to disappear until two weeks later, leaving me without puppy chow for a much too lengthy period of time. So although I have no doubt I will forever remain a DREAM bake sale most frequent shopper, I'm giving them a little friendly competition with this week's DDS creation: puppy chow.
1. Get a packet of Crispix or Rice Chex from FoCo2. Get a salad bowl filled with a few scoops of peanut butter from the sandwich line (grab another bowl while you're at it).3. Pump about 5 pumps of chocolate sauce from the FroYo line into the peanut butter (or less depending on how much of a peanut butter fan you are).4. Get one packet of sugar-free hot chocolate mix, and one packet of regular dark hot chocolate mix (it's next to the entre line).5. Microwave the bowl for about 20 seconds, or until the mixture gets a little more liquid-y, and mix.6. Put the cereal in the second bowl and mix the peanut butter/chocolate into them until it evenly coats the pieces.7. Pour1packet of the sugar-free hot chocolate into the mix and either pour the mix in a plastic bag and add more in until the powder coats the Chex (this is most effective), or cover that bowl with the other bowl and shake. 8. If the mix doesn't end up as small bite size clumps, or is too sauce-y, incorporate half the packet of dark hot chocolate mix until it does.
Warning: This may not be the best recipe to try alone. You may think you have the self-restraint to prevent yourself from finishing off an entire bowl of puppy chow alone in Food Court at 12:30 a.m, but you probably don't. But if you somehow do, don't bother telling me about it. No one likes a self-caller.
