PICNIC TRAIL MIX

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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

Provided by Emily Kerrigan

Categories     Snack

Time 35m

Yield 1 big tin

Number Of Ingredients 7

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

Steps:

  • 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.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 202 calories, Fat 8 grams fat, SaturatedFat 2 grams saturated fat, Carbohydrate 29 grams carbohydrates, Sugar 15 grams sugar, Fiber 1 grams fiber, Protein 3 grams protein, Sodium 0.7 milligram of sodium

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