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Picnic trail mix

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Picnic trail mix

Name: Picnic trail mix
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 1 big tin
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

Emily Kerrigan

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1 big tin

Easy

Prep: 20 mins

Cook: 15 mins

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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

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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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

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Nutrition: Per serving (45g)

kcal202
fat8g
saturates2g
carbs29g
sugars15g
fibre1g
protein3g
salt0.7g

Method

step 1

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).
step 2

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.
step 3

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.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, July 2017

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