Butterfinger Bites Review & Muddy Buddies Recipe

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In honor of the NEW Butterfinger Bites and Butterfinger’s 90ish anniversary, Nestle has partnered with exclusive dessert food trucks and created one-of-a-kind recipes from ice cream sandwiches, cake pops, cookies and more!

We invite you to sample at your local food truck location or even make your own recipes via Facebook.com/butterfinger! I would be delighted to set up a sampling with your local participating food truck, provide Butterfinger Bites samples, send you additional information or exclusive recipes to recreate!

I got the chance to try out Butterfinger Bites, and since I am a lover of the original Butterfinger, they taste just like Butterfinger but in snackable pieces! It also gave me the chance to try them out in a Butterfinger Muddy Buddy recipe, which I tweaked just for these little bite-sized Butterfingers.

Butterfinger Bites Muddy Buddies

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup butter
• 1 (12 oz) bag chocolate chips
• 1 (10oz) bag Butterfinger Bites
• 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
• 8 cups Chex Rice cereal (I used generic)
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar

Cooking Directions

1. Crush Butterfinger Bites into small pieces. You can place them in a Ziploc bag and use a rolling pin.
2. Melt butter, chocolate chips and peanut butter in a sauce pan over a low heat.
3. Put the Chex cereal into a large covered bowl and pour the chocolate mixture and crushed Butterfingers over the cereal. Fold the chocolate mixture into the cereal, trying to coat all cereal.
4. Spread out on a 1-2 cookie sheets and sift or sprinkle powdered sugar evenly over cereal. Let chocolate cool. Enjoy!

Yes, they taste as good as they look!

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SweetTarts Popcorn Mix (Recipe)

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With "the most wonderful time of the year" just behind us, moms were busy planning and purchasing the sweetest part of the holidays. Stockings were filled with candy and unique sweet treats that only moms have an eye for- and all within their budget! One thing that graced stockings was Nestle Seasonal Confections' newest holiday collection.

This year, Nestle offers something new for everyone on your list, including a large variety of fun and innovative items including the all new one-of-its-kind PIXY STIX Powder-Filled Candy canes, the larger-than-life Nestle Crunch 1lb. Candy Bar, and colorfully delicious Wonka and Chocolate Stocking Stuffer Tins.

Even though Christmas has come and gone, our family continues making and baking delicious treats to keep us in the wonderful holiday (Since New Years is a holiday, ya know!) spirit! So when I found out I would be getting to try Wonka Original Spree Candy Canes and a Nestle SweetTarts Stocking Stuffer Tin, I knew I wanted to try the SweetTarts in a recipe. The candy canes, unfortunately, did not make it into a photo. Before I had to chance, we had a slew of friends and family come over to help us decorate and work on the van. Since apparently I am friends with candy cane lovers, they pretty much munched on them all day long. I did have one, however, and they were delicious! It was like eating Spree in the shape of a candy cane. Weird, I know, but still yummy.

The recipe is a modified popcorn ball recipe. We either didn't have enough marshmallows or too much butter. So we decided to make it into a popcorn mix instead of popcorn balls. It was a big hit among everyone.

SweetTarts Popcorn Mix

Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 5 minutes (or more, depending on your microwave)
Total time: 15 minutes, plus 12 hours for set time
Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cup SweetTarts candy, chopped
• 2 bags popped popcorn (plain)
• 1/2 lb mini-marshmallows
• 1/2 cup butter, melted
• 1 teaspoon maple syrup (or vanilla extract)

Cooking Directions

1. Pop 2 bags of popcorn and pour bags into a large bowl.
2. Melt the butter in a microwaveable bowl. Add the marshmallows and stir frequently until they fully melt. Add maple syrup and stir until it is completely mixed in.
3. Drizzle butter/marshmallow/syrup mix into bowl over popcorn. Let it stand for a few seconds. Sprinkle 1 1/2 cups of chopped Nestle SweetTarts candies over popcorn
4. Mix with your hands or a spatula until the popcorn is completely covered and candy is mixed in.
5. Pour popcorn into a pan lined with parchment or wax paper. Flatten popcorn (but not hard enough to crush it. Otherwise, what would be the point?), making sure it is even.
6. Put pan into the fridge overnight to set. Take pan out after at least 12 hours and break into pieces or put into festive bags!

How you want to enjoy it is your choice but it tastes really good while sipping a mug of hot chocolate!

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