TEST KITCHEN VIDEO: FRIED CEREAL

Kids, Adults And Senior Citizens Love Fried Cereal. Eat It Like Popcorn!

Fried cereal is a colorful mix of our fave classic breakfast cereals tossed and toasted in melted salted butter! YUM!

Kids, adults and senior citizens love fried cereal. Eat it like popcorn!

WHAT’S YOUR MIX?
Personalize your fried cereal by mixing together five or more of your favorite cereals. Name the mix after yourself. For example, if your name is Tiffany, call it “Tiffany Mix,” Melvin, it’s “Melvin Mix!”

The “Charles Phoenix Mix” is Apple Jacks, Lucky Charms, Cap’n Crunch, Honeycombs, Trix, Cocoa Puffs and Fruit Loops.

THROW A FRIED CEREAL SLUMBER PARTY!
Invite your friends and relations to show up with a box of their favorite cereal…and their pajamas on!

BASIC RECIPE – makes 6 one-cup servings.

½ stick of salted butter
6 cups dry cereal – each cup a different cereal

COOKING INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Melt butter skillet (stove top or electric) on LOW heat.
2. When butter melts add cereal mixture.
3. Toss continuously for 3 or 4 minutes(-ish) until the room begins to smell of sweet buttery toasted cereal.
4. Remove from heat before cereal begins to brown. Don’t stop stirring or it will burn!
5. Serve warm or room temp
Helpful Hints!
#1: Make as much fried cereal at one time as your skillet can hold.
#2: A colorized cereal like Trix or Fruit Loops is recommended in each “mix” for color!
#3: For large party size bowls, fry each of your cereals separately and mix after frying.
#4: Fry your cereal in bacon fat if you don’t like salted butter.
#5: Eat leftovers for breakfast in a bowl with whole milk!
CEREAL TIMELINE

• Corn Flakes 1906
• Wheaties 1924
• Rice Krispies 1928
• Kix 1937
• Cheerios 1941
• Golden Crisp 1949
• Corn Pops 1950
• Frosted Flakes 1952
• Honey Smacks 1953
• Trix 1954
• Cocoa Puffs 1956
• Alpha-Bits 1958
• Cap’n Crunch 1963
• Fruit Loops 1963
• Lucky Charms 1964
• Apple Jacks 1965
• Honeycomb 1965
• Boo Berry 1973
• Count Chocula 1971
• Franken Berry 1971
• Cookie Crisp 1977
• Cinnamon Toast Crunch 1984
• Reese’s Puffs 1994

“WHATS YOUR MIX?”

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