Leprechaun Bait: If you're looking for fun snacks for St. Patrick's Day, this leprechaun bait (aka leprechaun chow) is it! Your whole family will love this mix of white chocolate, cereal, sprinkles and M&Ms!
1½cupswhite chocolate chipswe prefer Ghirardelli (see substitutions for other suggestions)
3cupsrice Chex cerealcan use corn Chex, but rice is preferred
1cupKashi honey toasted oat cerealcan use cheerios too
1cupgreen M&Ms
¼cupgreen & white sprinkles
green cookie icingif desired
Instructions
First, thinking ahead, grab a large baking sheet and cover it completely with parchment paper.
Next, melt the chocolate baking chips in a large bowl (large enough that the cereal will fit in it after the chocolate is melted) following the package directions for melting. (Most will be to melt on half-power for 2 minutes, stirring every 30 seconds. Do NOT overcook.)
Once the chocolate is completely melted, pour your dry cereal in to the bowl of white chocolate and carefully stir to mix, trying to make sure all of the cereal becomes covered.
Next, pour in half of the sprinkles, and stir.
Once mixed, pour out your chocolate covered cereal on to the parchment paper and spread it out so most of it is in a single layer. (It's ok if some of it's still touching – you'll be breaking it up in to small pieces anyway once it's hardened.)
Sprinkle the reamaining sprinkles on the top of the cereal before the chocolate hardens and then drizzle it with as much green cookie icing as you'd like.
Allow cereal/icing to "dry" (about 20 minutes - the icing is what takes longer to dry) and then break up the cereal in to small bite-size pieces. (Remember, this is a snack mix so it's ok if some of cereal is stuck together but large pieces are harder to eat when snacking.)
Next, it's time to add in the M&M's and mix all together! You can either mix it all together in the large bowl or you can pour the M&M's on top of the broken pieces of cereal and mix it with your hands.