Thanksgiving Party Mix

This stuff is fun, festive, and very hard to stop eating! I came up with the recipe by combining a few others.

THANKSGIVING PARTY MIX

6 cups Corn Chex

7 cups Golden Grahams

6 cups Bugles

2 large boxes (or one bag) Boston Baked Beans candy

1 bag Brach's Caramel Candy Corn (or regular candy corn - but caramel is WAY better)

1 cup white chocolate chips

1 cup sugar

1 cup Karo syrup

3/4 cup butter

Combine first five ingredients.  Boil sugar, Karo, and butter for two minutes.  Then pour over cereal mixture. Add white chocolate chips after the mixture has cooled a bit.  Spread on wax paper to cool.  Enjoy!

Billionaire's Shortbread

Over ten years ago, I was on study abroad in London and ate some amazing shortbread/caramel/white chocolate bars at a Starbucks there.  Then I ate them a few more times.  And then I came home and spent the next five years searching American Starbucks stores for these bars, to no avail.  And then I spent the next five years just dreaming about them.  And then at Christmas this past year I finally did something about it and recreated the recipe myself.  I must say that I got pretty darn close to getting the recipe right!  If I do say so myself, they are amazing . . . which is why I named them Billionaire's Shortbread (a few steps up from Millionaire's Shortbread).

And now, I finally got around to typing up and posting the recipe.  It is a mix of several different recipes, including Ben's mom's caramel as the middle layer.  Imagine it: shortbread, pecans (if you wish), chewy caramel, white chocolate, and a tiny drizzle of semisweet.  If your mouth is watering, you can view the recipe here.