Picnic trail mix
Make this salty and sweet trail mix with nuts, dried fruit, pretzels and chocolate chips for a picnic with kids, or as a snack for movie night
- Prep:20 mins
Cook:15 mins
- Serves 1 big tin
- Easy
Nutrition per serving
- kcal 202
- fat 8g
- saturates 2g
- carbs 29g
- sugars 15g
- fibre 1g
- protein 3g
- salt 0.7g
Ingredients
- butter, for the tray
- 150g mix of your choice of: pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, cashews, pecans, pistachios, chopped dried apricot, raisins, dried cranberries
- 150g caster sugar
- 100g milk or dark chocolate chips
- 25g bag mini salted pretzels
- 25g bag mini Ritz crackers
- rainbow sprinkles, for dipping
Method
Butter a baking tray. Mix together your chosen fruit, seeds and nuts in a medium saucepan. Add the sugar and stir together over a medium heat for 10 mins until the sugar has melted and caramelised. Quickly tip onto the baking tray, press down a little and leave to set (it won’t fill the whole tray).
Melt the chocolate in a bowl set over a pan of simmering water, then half-dip the mini pretzels and crackers in the chocolate. Half-dip some in the sprinkles, leaving some plain. Place on a wire rack to set as you go along.
Once the fruit and nut praline is set, bash it up on the baking tray with a rolling pin to make little clusters. Mix with the chocolate pretzels and crackers and pack in little paper bags.