TODAY’S RECIPE: Picnic trail mix

A SALTY and sweet trail mix to pack in paper bags for a picnic snack

Ingredients

Butter, for the tray 150g mix of your choice of: pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, cashews, pecans, pistachios, chopped dried apricots, raisins, dried cranberries 150g caster sugar 100g milk or dark chocolate chips 25g bag of mini salted pretzels

Method

25g bag of mini Ritz crackers Rainbow sprinkles, for dipping

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 ten minutes 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.