Lucky Leprechaun Chow St. Patrick's Day Green Treat Recipe (2024)

ByTrish Sutton February 5, 2020February 25, 2022

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Lucky Leprechaun Chow is an easy St. Patrick’s Day recipe. It is yummy, it is green and it only requires five ingredients, so it’s a must make for March 17th.

This Leprechaun Chow St. Patrick’s Day Treat is delicious, green and only requires five simple ingredients!

Hey there Kenarry Readers! St. Patrick’s Day is next month which means it is just about time to start thinking GREEN.Trish here, and I am indeed thinking green. A little fact about me: I have been known to go a bit overboard when it comes to March 17th.

Leprechaun Chow

I will neither confirm nor deny the Irish luck that may come from enjoying a little Leprechaun Chow. Just as I will not say whether or not this delicious St. Patrick’s Day treat will attract actual Leprechauns. What I will tell you is that you really can’t go wrong by making Leprechaun Chow. It is yummy, it is green and it only requires five ingredients.

After you make this easy recipe, click over and make our Leprechaun Rainbow Chocolate Bark Recipe next!

Leprechaun Chow St. Patrick’s Day Green Treat Recipe

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Kitchen Tools Needed:

Ingredients Needed:

These are the ingredients you’ll need. All the exact amounts are in the printable card at the bottom of this post.

Cooking tips:

The full directions are in the recipe card below, but here are a few tips you may find helpful in making the Leprechaun Chow.

Make sure to use an extra large mixing bowl for the cereal. The last thing you want is for all the tasty mix to be spilling out while you mix it.
If it turns out that yourLeprechaun Chow St. Patrick’s Day Green Treat is a littletoo sweetjust mix in a couple cups of pretzels for the perfect combination of sweet and salty. YUM!!

What about you?

Do you enjoy Green Eggs & Ham for breakfast on St. Patrick’s Day? And is your dinner made up ofCorn Beef & Cabbage? Or maybe the real Irish dish,Bacon and Cabbage? How about a green treat to enjoy between your Irish feasts?

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Leprechaun Chow St. Patrick’s Day Green Treat Recipe

Lucky Leprechaun Chow is an easy St. Patrick's Day recipe. It is yummy, it is green and it only requires five ingredients, so it's a must make for March 17th.

Prep Time8 minutes mins

Ingredients

4 cups powdered sugar
1 1/2 cups white chocolate chips
green food coloring
1 can vanilla frosting
12 cups Chex cereal

Instructions

Pour the cereal into an extra large bowl then set it aside.
Add frosting to amicrowave safe dishthen heat in the microwave for 30 seconds, stir frosting until it is smooth (you may need to add another 30 seconds if not completely melted).
Heat thewhite chocolate chips inanother microwave safe dish for 45 seconds to one minute. Stir the chips to ensure they are all melted and chocolate is smooth.
After both the frosting and white chocolate chips are melted, mix them together with a few drops of green food coloring.(Add food coloring to deepen the color or green desired.)
Pour the creamy green mixture over the large bowl of cereal, mix it until all of the cereal squares are covered.
Pourpowdered sugar into alarge plastic resealable bag. In addition, whenthe Leprechaun Chow is well combined add it to the resealable bag.(I use the 2.5 gallon size.)
Seal the bag and gently shake it until the powdered sugar covers all of the cereal.

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Here’s wishing you abit of Irish luck this St. Patrick’s Day!
Cheers ~ Trish

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Originally published February 2017. Updated February 2020.