In a small heavy-bottomed saucepan add the butter, Worcestershire sauce, lemon juice, seasoned salt, onion powder, and garlic powder. Over very low heat, allow the butter to melt and let the mixture come to a bare simmer. Remove the pan from heat and stir in the lemon juice. Set the sauce aside for later.
To a large baking or roasting pan add the Crispix® cereal, Wheat Chex™ cereal, mixed nuts, cashews, and pretzels. Toss the snacks very gently with a large spoon or spatula.
4 Cups Crispix® Corn and Rice Cereal, 2 Cups Wheat Chex™ Cereal, 1 Cup Bugles Corn Chips, 1 Cup Mixed Nuts, 1 Cup Whole Cashews, 1 Cup Small Butter Pretzels
Drizzle half of the sauce over the cereal mixture. Gently stir the snack mixture moving the bottom snacks to the top and drizzle the remaining sauce over the cereal.
Bake the snack mix for 1 hour and stir the mixture every 15 minutes as it bakes.
Remove the snack mix from the oven and gently add the Cheetos. Serve and enjoy!
2 Cup Crunchy Cheetos
Notes
My Top Tips♡ A plastic squeeze bottle is a great way to drizzle the sauce over the party mix. This method allows more control in applying the sauce to get a more even coating to the snacks. Make sure the sauce has cooled so that you don't melt the bottle.♡ You can vary the composition of the snacks and substitute for many of them. Just don't exceed 10 cups of snacks that are coated with the sauce.♡ I like to use two kitchen timers when I make this snack mix. After I put the mix in the oven to bake, I set the first one for 15 minutes and the second one for 1 hour. Each time the first timer sounds I stir the party mix and reset that timer. When the second timer sounds the bake is finished.Substitutions& VariationsYou can make this Ultimate Party Snack Mix with a variety of different cereals and bite-sized snacks. Here are some definite winners:
Bite-Sized Bagel Chips
Honey Nut Cheerios
Small Cheez-It® Crackers
Gold Fish Crackers
Baked Cheese Crisps (To keep them crisp, do not coat them with sauce).
Wasabi Green Peas
And you can also substitute a cup of any sweet candy-coated candy for one cup of the nuts and add them when you add the Cheetos. Consider the following choices:
Plain M&M's
Reese's Pieces
Peanut M&M's
Boston Baked Beans Peanuts
Sixlets
Make-Ahead & StorageYou can make this snack mix ahead of the day you want to serve it or give it as a gift. Store it in air-tight containers, jars, plastic containers, or resealable plastic bags at room temperature for up to 5 days.