Snowy Pinecone Snacks

By cindyandmojo

Ingredients

• 3 cups Chex Chocolate cereal (or Chocolate Fiber One)
• 6 pretzel sticks (thicker dipping sticks)
• 1/2 cup peanut butter
• 1/4 cup Nutella
• 3 tbls butter, softened
• 1 cup powdered sugar

Details

Servings 1
Adapted from handmadecharlotte.com

Preparation

Step 1

Mix the peanut but­ter, Nutella, but­ter, and pow­dered sugar in a bowl.

Take a pret­zel stick and mold some of the peanut but­ter mix­ture around it, form­ing a slight cone shape.

Hold­ing it steady by using the tip of the pret­zel as a han­dle, start insert­ing pieces of cereal into the peanut but­ter mix­ture in a sym­met­ri­cal pat­tern around the stick. Add more cereal pieces, stag­ger­ing them as you move upward, until you get near the top.

Cut sev­eral cereal pieces into tri­an­gles and add those to the top (most pinecone scales get smaller toward the end.)

If your pinecone is get­ting too tall (like mine were), cut off the top of the pret­zel and add a dol­lop of peanut but­ter mix­ture to cover it. Insert a few more tri­an­gle pieces of cereal into the top of the pinecone.

For a "snowy" effect, dust the pinecone with powdered sugar.

How do you eat a pinecone? Simple! Pluck piece by delicious piece.