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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.
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Prep Time 11 minutes
Servings: 30
Course: Snack
Cuisine: American
Ingredients Method Notes

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

Method
 

  1. Preheat oven to 250 degrees.
  2. In a small bowl, combine ginger, cinnamon, cloves and sea salt.
  3. 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.
  4. Stir in cereal, mixed nuts, pretzels and ginger snap cookies until coated. Add spice mixture and stir to evenly coat.
  5. Bake for 1 hour, stirring every 15 minutes.
  6. Spread in single layer on baking sheets until cooled. Mix in chopped crystallized ginger. Store in an airtight container.
  7. Makes 30 3/8 cup servings.

Notes

Recipe by Simply Organic