These Puppy Chow Cookies (or Muddy Buddy Cookies) are a simple and delicious way to transform your favorite snack mix into a cookie!
Make sure to check out my Puppy Chow recipe that inspired these cookies!
Puppy Chow Cookies Are A Spin On The Classic Snack Mix!
I came up with the idea for these cookies last week…it was a moment of pure genius, I tell you.
I mean, everyone loves the snackity snack, Puppy Chow. Or Muddy Buddies..or whatever the heck you call it in your world.
Anyhow, Puppy Chow is a total 80’s snack mix… it’s Chex cereal coated in peanut butter and chocolate and dusted with powdered sugar. And I thought that totally sounded like an amazing cookie idea! What we have here is a peanut butter cookie coated in chocolate and powdered sugar, just like the mix!
All you have to do is make a simple peanut butter cookie.
Flatten the dough out before baking them…
They’ll look like this…
Then melt some peanut butter, chocolate chips and butter together.
And make a little assembly station.
Chocolate, powdered sugar and cookies.
Then dip your cookie into the chocolate…make sure to tap off ALL the excess. You only need a thin coating of chocolate on each. The chocolate might seem a little thick, so just be careful during the dipping, and tap, tap, tap. If it thickens too much, reheat the chocolate as necessary.
Or you can add in a tablespoon of butter or coconut oil and melt it in to thin it out.
Then plop it into the powdered sugar to coat…
See?
And yeah…repeat that a bunch of times.
I tried shaking them in the powdered sugar in a bag, but it didn’t work so well. Let them set up before you eat them!
These will be so perfect for holiday cookie trays!
Puppy Chow Cookies
Description
makes about 3 dozen cookies
Ingredients
Cookie
- 1/2 cup butter, room temperature
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup light brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 Tbsp vanilla
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 1/4 cup flour
Coating
- 1 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
- 1/3 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1/4 cup butter
- 2 cups powdered sugar
Instructions
Cookies
- Preheat oven to 350°F
- Line a baking sheet with parchment, set aside.
- In bowl of stand mixer cream butter and peanut butter together until smooth. Add both sugars and beat for 2 minutes.
- Add in egg, vanilla, baking soda and salt. Mix until combined.
- Turn mixer to low and add in flour.
- Portion out dough by in tablespoon amounts. Roll into a ball and then flatten to approximately 1/2 inch thick. Place on baking sheet about 2 inches apart.
- Bake for 8-9 minutes until golden at he edges.
- Remove from oven and transfer cookies to a wire rack to cool completely.
Coating
- In microwave safe bowl combine chocolate chips, peanut butter and butter. Heat on high for 1 minute and then stir until smooth.
- Place powdered sugar in bowl.
- Dip each cookie in chocolate and using a fork remove cookie, tapping off excess chocolate. You don’t need a lot of chocolate coating on the cookies.
- Immediately dip the cookie into the powdered sugar and toss to coat completely.
- Place back on cooling rack to until chocolate is set. Repeat for all cookies.
Notes
store airtight for up to 3 days.
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Wow! These are such a great and unique idea. My mouth is watering for one. Plus probably easier to eat – but I’m not sure if that’s a good or bad thing 🙂
I remember devouring a whole batch of muddy buddies singlehandedly one night in college. I fear the same would happen with these.
Oh my aunt used make these and bring them to our Christmas party. So freaking good!! Hers are different than yours though, but oh my gosh!! I think yours look better! Holy heck, they are amazing! You are totally a genius!
Is it ok to bake cookies at 10 at night?! These are absolutely genius…maybe I will get back on my diet tomorrow…..
Hello, Shelly! Greetings from Buenos Aires, Arg! Just wondering, since we are not used to peanut butter for baking here and p butter is not available everywhere, if the one you use in this recipe is unsweetened. Just because that is the only one I got. And if it is not, how much sugar should I add to the recipe to compensate? Thank you and great work!! 😀
The one I use is sweetened, but unsweetened pb will work fine! There is enough sugar in the cookie and also the coating that you won’t have any problem!
Wow! What a creative idea. I think that you are genius :$
Woah. I made Muddy Buddy Bars several months ago and thought I was pretty genius, but THESE! Ohhhh man. I will call you brilliant even if you aren’t the first person to think of them. Pinning!! 🙂
Puppy Chow is one of my husband’s favorite…I think he’d love me forever if I made these for him!
That’s the worst when you think of something, you’re so impressed with yourself and then google happens and your dreams of being so creative are crushed! LOL I have seen these before but never made them, I couldn’t have come up with these on my own! Love cookies dipped in a chocolate mixture, life doesn’t get much better!
I hadn’t heard of these until now, so you’re still a genius to me!! These look awesome!