Picnic trail mix

• butter↗

  for the tray

• pumpkin seeds↗150g mix of your choice of: g

  sunflower seeds, cashews, pecans, pistachios, chopped dried apricot, raisins, dried cranberries

• caster sugar↗150g g
• milk or dark chocolate chips↗100g g
• bag mini salted pretzels↗25g g
• bag mini Ritz crackers↗25g g
• rainbow sprinkles↗

  for dipping

Step-by-step instructions

1. 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).

2. 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.

3. 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.