Cooking Recipe Caramel Cereal Mix

Recipe Ingredients

3 c Bite-size shredded wheat
-biscuits
3 c Round toasted oat cereal
2 c Pretzel sticks, broken
1 1/2 c Salted peanuts
1 1/3 c Sugar
3/4 c Butter or margarine
1/2 c Light corn syrup
1 ts Vanilla

Directions

Combine shredded wheat biscuits, toasted oat cereal, pretzels, and
peanuts in a large buttered roasting pan.

Butter the sides of 2-quart saucepan. In the pan combine sugar,
butter or margarine, and corn syrup. Cook over medium heat to
boiling, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon to dissolve sugar.
Cook, stirring frequently, till thermometer registers 280F,
soft-crack stage. This should take about 10 minutes. Remove saucepan
from heat and stir in vanilla.

Immediately pour syrup mixture over cereal mixture. Stir gently to
coat cereal. Bake in a 350F oven about 20 minutes or till golden
brown, stirring once.

Transfer cereal mixture onto a large piece of foil. Cool. Break up
cereal mixture into small clusters. Store tightly covered. Makes 12
cups.

Categories matching this recipe

Snacks