Anyhow, the wonderhubs has a life-long aversion to pretzels, & I am currently (involuntarily) participating in an aversion to gluten. My solution was to come up with a gluten-free snack mix, where he could pick around those nazzzty pretzel pieces.
I’d been seeing “Muddy Buddies” & “Chex Snack” mixes done in the crock pot on various blogs. That sounded so much more exciting to me than heating the oven/house for an hour or two while toasting the mix. (If your slow cooker, like mine, does not have a vent, you will need to use a towel to absorb the “perspiration” that comes off the mix as it cooks.)
Here’s my recipe:
¼ cup mustard powder
¼ cup water
½ cup butter
½ cup honey
3 cups Corn Bran Crunch™ cereal
3 cups Rice Chex™ cereal
3 cups Honey Nut Chex™ cereal
3 cups gluten free pretzels
2 cups gluten free rice crackers
1 cup sliced almonds
1 cup bacon crumbles
Mix mustard powder with water and let sit to thicken 10-15 minutes. Melt butter and stir in honey. Add thickened mustard and whisk until smooth.
Combine remaining ingredients into crock.
Pour over honey mustard mixture and stir gently.
Cook on “Low” for 2 hours, carefully stirring every 30 minutes.
Pour onto parchment paper to cool.
Devour!
…because you want to TRIPLE the recipe!
Check out what my friends did with their pretzels & mustard:
