This caramel Crispix mix features peanuts and cereal in a crispy caramel coating. It is kind of like caramel corn, but made with cereal instead of popcorn. This microwave recipe makes getting that crispy finish even faster and easier. You have to try this fun sweet and salty snack.

Clusters of hardened caramel coated Crispix cereal and peanuts, ready to eat.

If you are a fan of crunchy sweet and salty snack mixes, you are in the right place! The crisp caramel coating on this cereal and peanut mix is absolutely perfect.

The best part is you can finish it in the microwave, making it so much faster than the baked version. I am sharing two different ways to get to the finished product fast, so do whichever sounds easier to you! You will be in snacking heaven before you know it.

My Aunt Jenny is famous! She submitted this recipe to Gooseberry Patch and had it published in Homestyle in a Hurry. Isn’t that fun?

If you liked Grandma Schanhorst’s Microwave Caramel Corn, you will love this! It is the same principle of making a caramel and using the microwave to dry it out.

Ingredients including Crispix cereal, peanuts, butter, brown sugar, corn syrup, and baking soda, ready to be made into caramel Crispix snack mix.

It is so much quicker than using the oven.

We threw together an impromptu BBQ this weekend. It was just too nice not to cook something over fire.

Now, when I say cook something over fire, I really mean it. My husband cooks over a wood fire.

He starts with logs and paper and kindling and the whole bit. So, it takes a while before we are ready to cook.

He has to make the kindling, build a pretty little fire (sometimes he gets pretty artistic with his wood placement), start the fire, feed the fire, burn the fire down a bit to get a nice bed of coal. Finally, a few hours later we are ready for the food.

Saucepan with boiled butter, brown sugar, and corn syrup mixture.

Saucepan after baking soda has been added and the caramel mixture has foamed up and almost filled the pan.

Needless to say, the process can make us all hungry! It just so happened I had bought the cereal to make this.

So, I ran inside and made a little snack for everyone while we waited for the fire master to do his thing.

Everyone LOVED it. Maybe too much.

We all stood around saying how wonderful it was while feeding our faces. Then when dinner was ready, we weren’t quite as hungry as maybe we should have been.

You live and you learn! Next time we’ll make a smaller dinner. 😉

Glass Bowl Method

This is the way my Aunt Jenny makes it. It is super simple and works great.

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Make sure you have a large glass bowl ready for this. My 4 qt glass bowl is just barely big enough for to make a full batch.

You are going to want to use glass because it is microwave safe and you don’t want that super hot sugar burning into anything else!

Have you wax paper ready when it comes out so you can spread it out while it’s hot. That way you don’t have one big clump of caramel goodness.

Glass bowl filled with Crispix cereal, peanuts, coated in hot caramel mixture.

Cooked caramel coated Crispix cereal and peanuts spread out over a wax paper lined baking sheet to cool and set up.

Paper Bag Method:

Shaking a paper bag is such a great way to get everything coated and crunchy. After trying several different recipes with this method, I thought it was time to try this one. It worked really well!

This gets the caramel really evenly distributed and crunchy. Plus some of the extra grease seeps into the bag, so it feels healthier!

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Jenny also shared her Feta and Spinach Stuffed Chicken Breasts with us and they instantly became a favorite dinner here. We highly recommend them!

Snack mixes are always so much fun to make and eat. They are perfect for parties. This is a favorite and so is the Brownie Batter Puppy Chow.

Clusters of caramel coated peanuts and Crispix ready to eat.

For another fun caramel snack mix, check out caramel muddy buddies. Or try caramel Chex mix, it is similar in a lot of ways but with a wider variety of crunchies.

Or whip up some fall puppy chow, which is another fun play on puppy chow. It features white chocolate and fall candies in a fun mix that is always a hit.

Now I am curious, do you have a favorite sweet snack mix?

Caramel Crispix mix with peanuts broken into pieces, ready to eat.

5 from 12 ratings

Quicker Easier Caramel Crispix Mix

Author: Carlee

Servings: Servings

Crunchy caramel-y goodness. This cereal mix is perfectly delicious for snacking. It is sweet, salty and quick and easy to make too!

Prep: 5

Cook: 15

Total: 20

Ingredients

Instructions

Glass Bowl Method

Combine cereal and peanuts in a large microwave-safe glass bowl, set aside
12 oz Crispix cereal, 16 oz dry roasted peanuts
In a large (it will bubble up!) sauce pan over medium heat, combine butter, brown sugar and corn syrup. Bring to a gentle boil, stirring frequently. Boil for two minutes
¾ cup butter, 1½ cup light brown sugar, ½ cup light corn syrup
Remove saucepan from heat and stir in the baking soda. Pour caramel mix over cereal and peanuts, stirring to coat
1 teaspoon baking soda
Microwave on high for 2 minutes. Remove and stir. Repeat two more times.
Pour onto lightly greased baking sheets or strips of waxed paper
Cool completely then break into pieces and serve. Store in an air-tight container

Paper Bag Method

Make sure there are no staple in your paper grocery sack!
Combine cereal and peanuts in your paper bag, set aside.
12 oz Crispix cereal, 16 oz dry roasted peanuts
In a large (it will bubble up!) sauce pan over medium heat, combine butter, brown sugar and corn syrup. Bring to a gentle boil, stirring frequently. Boil for two minutes
¾ cup butter, 1½ cup light brown sugar, ½ cup light corn syrup
Remove saucepan from heat and stir in the baking soda. Pour caramel mix over cereal and peanuts, roll the top of the bag down and shake to coat
1 teaspoon baking soda
Microwave on high for 30 seconds. Remove from the microwave and shake well to mix. Repeat this process until it has been cooked and shaken 5 times.
Pour onto lightly greased baking sheets or strips of waxed paper
Cool completely then break into pieces and serve. Store in an air-tight container