Sweet and Spicy Gingerbread Snack Mix
This sweet and spicy take on the salty snack mix original is every bit as tasty as a plate of gingerbread cookies.
Ingredients
- 1 teaspoon Ginger Root Ground 1.64 oz.
- 1/2 teaspoon Cinnamon Ground
- 1/4 teaspoon Ground Cloves
- 1/4 cup refined coconut oil
- 2 teaspoons honey
- 1 teaspoon molasses
- 9 cups mixed rice corn and wheat cereal squares
- 1 cup mixed nuts
- 1 cup bite-size pretzels
- 1 cup ginger snap cookie pieces
- 1 cup Crystallized Ginger chopped in 1/4-inch pieces
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 250 degrees.
- In a small bowl, combine ginger, cinnamon, cloves and sea salt.
- In a large, ungreased roasting pan, add coconut oil, honey and molasses. Place in the oven until coconut oil melts. in the oven. Remove from oven and stir.
- Stir in cereal, mixed nuts, pretzels and ginger snap cookies until coated. Add spice mixture and stir to evenly coat.
- Bake for 1 hour, stirring every 15 minutes.
- Spread in single layer on baking sheets until cooled. Mix in chopped crystallized ginger. Store in an airtight container.
- Makes 30 3/8 cup servings.
Notes
Recipe by Simply Organic