Spiced Holiday Snack Mix

• Ingredients

  • 4 cups pretzels
  • 2 cups mixed nuts
  • 6 tablespoons (3/4 stick unsalted butter
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • ¼ teaspoon ground allspice
  • ¼ teaspoon ground ginger
  • 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
  • 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 1/8 teaspoon cayenne
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla
  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 cups popcorn
  • ½ cup dried cranberries
  • 1 cup Wavy Lays Milk Chocolate, broken into bite sized pieces
  • 1 cup Wavy Lays Dark Chocolate, broken into bite sized pieces

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Description

Directions

• Preheat oven to 300°F. Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil, set aside.
• Add pretzels and nuts to a large mixing bowl, set aside.
• In a small heavy saucepan, melt butter over medium heat.
• Add cinnamon, allspice, ginger, cloves, nutmeg, cayenne and vanilla and stir until fragrant, about 15 seconds.
• Pour butter mixture over pretzels and nuts in mixing bowl.
• Add brown sugar and salt to mixing bowl, stirring to coat the pretzels and nuts.
• Transfer pretzel and nut mixture to prepared baking sheet, spreading evenly.
• Bake in preheated oven, stirring occasionally, until nuts are toasted, about 30-35 minutes.
• Remove baking sheet from oven and set aside to cool.
• When pretzel and nut mixture is cool, transfer to a large mixing bowl.
• Add popcorn and cranberries to mixing bowl and stir to combine.
• Add Wavy Lays Milk Chocolate and Wavy Lays Dark Chocolate pieces to mixing bowl and stir to combine.
• Transfer snack mix to serving bowl(s) and serve.