Easy Homemade Gluten Free Chex Mix
Chex mix has been a holiday tradition in my family for many years. The smell of Chex mix baking in the oven always reminds me of Christmas. When I switched to gluten free cooking a few years ago, I had to make a few alterations to the recipe, but luckily, most of the ingredients in the mix are already gluten free! I’m so happy I didn’t have to give up one of my favorite holiday snacks, and I can make my own gluten free Chex mix.
This post was updated on October 16, 2019, to include new gluten free ingredients and new photos!
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Gluten free Chex mix is so easy to make. To start, you have to make the seasoning sauce, which is a yummy mix of butter, hot sauce, fresh garlic, Worcestershire sauce, and Lawry’s season.
Make sure to chop up your garlic into tiny pieces, then throw all of the ingredients in a saucepan and stir until the butter is melted and all the ingredients are incorporated.
Next, mix your dry ingredients. In my gluten free Chex mix, I use rice Chex, corn Chex, potato sticks, gluten free pretzels, peanuts, Cheerios, Lance gluten free cheese crackers, and baked Cheetos. If you don’t need to go gluten free, throw in some Cheez-its, Goldfish, Bugles, and bagel crackers too! Adding all of these ingredients fills up a large bowl pretty quickly!
To make it easier to stir the sauce into the mix, I usually separate the ingredients into two or three large bowls. Then, drizzle the sauce over the mix in each bowl and stir to evenly coat all of the ingredients.
Finally, dump your coated gluten free Chex mix ingredients onto a sheet pan. Make sure that the ingredients are in an even layer with each ingredient touching the pan. You’ll need to bake your mix in a couple of different rounds to get everything cooked evenly.
Now for the hard part — bake the mix for at least an hour and a half in a 250 degree oven. You’ll have to smell it cooking the whole time, but don’t eat any! Trust me — you’ll want to wait until it’s done!
Gluten Free Chex Mix
This simple recipe for gluten free Chex mix is made with all gluten free snacking ingredients and a homemade seasoning sauce.
Ingredients
- 3 cups corn Chex
- 3 cups rice Chex
- 2 cups gluten free pretzel sticks
- 1 cup peanuts
- 1 cup Cheerios
- 2 cups baked Cheetos
- 1 cup potato sticks
- 1 box Lance Gluten Free Cheese Cracker
- 2 sticks salted butter
- 3 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 12 dashes hot sauce
- 5 cloves garlic, minced or mashed
- 2 teaspoons Lawry's seasoning
- 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 250 degrees.
- Mix Chex, pretzels, peanuts, potato sticks, Cheerios, Cheetos, and cheese crackers in two or three large bowls. Set aside.
- In a small sauce pan, combine the butter, Worcestershire sauce, hot sauce, garlic, Lawry's seasoning, and onion powder. Heat over medium heat until butter is melted, stirring to combine ingredients.
- Pour sauce over the top of the dry snack ingredients. Stir to coat.
- Transfer the mix to a baking sheet and bake for one and a half to two hours, stirring halfway through the cooking time.
- Let Chex mix cool completely, then store in an air tight container.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 10 Serving Size: 1 gramsAmount Per Serving: Unsaturated Fat: 0g
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Emily is a midwestern mom of two boys. She loves all things DIY — from home renovations to kids birthday party planning. Whether she’s making a new farmhouse craft for her home or helping her kids with a cool activity, you can bet she’s in the middle of some kind of DIY project (or three) right now!
My kids LOVE Chex Mix, and we haven’t tried making it ourselves yet. Bonus that it’s gluten-free! We’ll have to give these a try!
This sounds absolutely delicious! Can’t wait to try.
Yummy! This looks like the perfect snack for this time of year.
We love Chex mix in our family! Half our family is gluten free, and I din’t realize we could find cheese crackers in GF! I can’t wait to make this! We keep Lawry’s season salt in the cupboard just to make Chex mix. LOl.
I love Chex mix! Yours here has so many added goodies to it — love that you tossed in baked Cheetos! Perfect for snacking and snacking!