Sunflower Seed Butter 'Puppy Chow'

Sunflower Seed Butter 'Puppy Chow'

Recipe:

1/2 cup of soy free smart and balance butter

1 cup of sunflower seed butter

1 cup of chocolate chips*

1 box 12 oz box of Crispex**

2 cups of powdered sugar 

additional 1 1/3 cups of powdered sugar

Directions:

Stir dairy free butter, sunflower seed butter and chocolate chips together in glass or microwave safe bowl. Heat at 30 second intervals. Remove bowl and stir in between each 30 seconds.  

Be careful, bowl and chocolate mixture will get hot. Continue until soft and gooey. Do not over heat chocolate or it will burn. It should take only about 2 or 3 times.

Pour box of cereal into large (unscented and new/clean) garbage type bag. Pour warm melted chocolate mixture over cereal in bag. Close up bag and gently shake and roll bag around in your hands to coat the cereal completely with the chocolate. 

When completely coated, but still warm and gooey, add in two cups of powdered sugar. close up bag again and roll around in your hand, being sure to get powdered sugar through out the entire bag. Gently break apart any clumps with crushing the cereal pieces. Set aside.

Add an additional 1 1/3 cups of powdered sugar after it has cooled. Wait at least 10 to 15 minutes to give the 'Puppy Chow' a nice white coating. Store in an airtight container.

*Be sure to choose dairy-free cocolate ships if you want this recipe to be dairy-free.
 **Crispix is NOT labeled as gluten-free, though they have discontinued using barley malt in the ingredients and now use brown rice syrup, which is gluten-free. It is still processed in a facility that also processes gluten and have not tested Crispix to determine its gluten-free status. There are not, however, any gluten ingredients listed in the cereal, itself. 

Both Rice and Corn Chex are gluten-free and can be substituted for the Crispix cereal. Add about 6 cups of each cereal for the recipe.