Snickerdoodle Muddy Buddies combine sweet cinnamon sugar with crunchy cereal for a delicious no-bake treat. A fun twist on classic puppy chow, thanks to a little extra help from Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal!
Whether you call these muddy buddies or snickerdoodle puppy chow, they are one of my favorite childhood snacks!
This muddy buddy recipe was originally published in April 2014. The photos and recipe were improved and updated in June 2025.
Aimee’s Recipe Notes
Taste & Texture: sweet cinnamon sugar flavor in a crunchy cereal treat. They taste like handfuls of mini snickerdoodle cookies!
Ease of Prep: Quick and simple: melt, mix and shake! No baking needed.
Storage: Keep in an airtight container at room temperature for up to one week.
Top Tip: Use a gallon sized ziploc bag to share the cereal with powdered sugar. Keep the mess down to a minimum.
These are heavenly! I could eat the whole bowl!
– Taylor
Just 5 Ingredients
Reminder
Scroll to the end of the blog post for a complete printable list of ingredients, measurements, and directions.
- Rice Chex cereal – This is the base for all of my puppy chow and muddy buddies recipe. Stays crispy without getting soggy.
- Cinnamon Toast Crunch – Adding a cup of these cinnamon-infused squares adds delicious variety of taste and texture to the mix.
- White chocolate melting wafers – I use Ghirardelli white chocolate melting wafers. Vanilla candiquik or almond bark would work great too.
- Powdered sugar – For coating the muddy buddies, adds so much sweetness and a classic look.
- Cinnamon – Added to both the powdered sugar and melted white chocolate for extra cinnamon flavor in every bite.
How to Make Snickerdoodle Puppy Chow
Melt the white chocolate.
- Melt the white chocolate with cinnamon and mix until smooth.
- Mix gently when coating the chex cereal in with the melted white chocolate. Try to avoid breaking or crushing the cereal, while still ensuring each square gets coated.
Coat the cereal.
- Break up any lumps of powdered sugar before adding the cereal (a good shake of the ziploc bag does the trick.
- Add coated cereal and shake. Add cinnamon toast crunch at the end and pour into a bowl to serve.
More Snickerdoodle Recipes
What is a Snickerdoodle?
A Snickerdoodle Cookie is a type of classic buttery cookie rolled in cinnamon sugar before baking! It’s quite delicious.
- One bite of these Snickerdoodle Cheesecake Bars and you’ll fall in love! The sweet and salty graham cracker pecan crust with the creamy cheesecake layer is all topped to perfection with the snickerdoodle pecan cookie topping!
- Snickerdoodle Cookie Dough Truffles: I’ve turned your classic childhood cookie into a no-egg truffle with a cinnamon coating!
- Perfect with a cup of coffee, this Snickerdoodle Biscotti recipe is flavorful. It’s also a great option to ship in a care package as they hold up very well.
- Snickerdoodle Bars – our favorite cookie in an easy to make 13×9 bar.
- Take your classic banana bread recipe to the next level! This Snickerdoodle Banana Bread recipe has a crunchy top coating of cinnamon and sugar, a real crowd pleaser!
So many muddy buddy flavors, so little time. Have you tried this Thin Mint Puppy Chow? These Hot Cocoa Muddy Buddies are amazing too.
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Snickerdoodle Muddy Buddies Recipe
Ingredients
- 8 cups Rice Chex cereal
- 16 ounce Ghirardelli white chocolate melting wafers
- 4 teaspoons cinnamon divided
- 1 ¾ cup powdered sugar
- 1 cup Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal
Instructions
- Melt white chocolate wafers in microwave according to package directions.
- Stir in 3 teaspoons cinnamon until blended. In a large mixing bowl, combine Rice Chex cereal with melted white chocolate. Stir until coated completely.
- In a large gallon size ziploc bag, add powdered sugar with remaining 1 teaspoon cinnamon. Close bag and shake to combine.
- Add chocolate cereal mix to bag, zip closed and shake! Make sure all the cereal has been covered. Add Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal.
- Store in airtight container for up to one week. ENJOY.
Notes
- Add the cinnamon toast crunch LAST. I like these muddy buddies best when the cinnamon cereal is left uncoated. It breaks up the sweetness a little bit and lets the cinnamon flavor shine.
- Mix gently when coating the chex in melted white chocolate. Try to avoid breaking or crushing the cereal, while still ensuring each square gets coated.
- Break up any lumps of powdered sugar before adding the cereal. I give the bag of powdered sugar a good shake first and it does the trick.
- Snickerdoodle Muddy Buddies are a great gift idea! I like to put them in mason jars or cellophane bags tied with a ribbon and give them away during the holidays.
- Store snickerdoodle puppy chow in an airtight container (or ziploc gallon bag) for up to one week.
- See blog post for more recipe tips and tricks.
Fantastic! Just made these for the first time and so happy. It is really an amazing treat. Thanks for sharing this.
These are heavenly! I could eat the whole bowl!
I could seriously use a nice handful now to snack on.
This is so dangerously addicting! I have to keep it in little single portion bags for me to grab otherwise I will eat it all in one sitting, haha!
My kids literally beg me to make this! We looooove it!
Oh my gosh I would eat that entire bowl in 1 sitting no problem!
I just made puppy chow this week! Great minds think alike ;). But mine wasn’t this flavor – this is awesome! I secretly LOVE Cinnamon Toast Crunch…hands down my favorite cereal. Must make this version asap!
Haha I grew up with two older brothers and am a total cereal hoarder too! Cinnamon Toast Crunch was always one of my favorites and still is so I love this recipe! Pinning and can’t wait to try it 🙂
I’m a cereal hoarder too. I’m always amazed at how all the groceries I buy at the store get eaten. I’m also a muddy buddies addict. Love this version!
Thank you Laura!!
I used to be terrible with hoarding cheez its. My mom would buy the smaller, normal sized boxes and poof! They’d be gone in minutes. I imagine this amazingly cinnamony treat disappears just as quickly! I can never get enough cinnamon in my life. 😀
haha, my oldest daughter has hid Cheez Its. And Oreos. Great choices 🙂
I love the idea of doing a non-chocolate muddy buddy recipe. Can’t wait to try this out!
Thanks Marly!!