Sweet Christmas Trail Mix An Easy Festive Snack For The Holidays

by Texas Homesteader ~ 

Christmas Trail Mix is a delicious sweet treat made with sugared popcorn with sweet and salty additions such as pretzels, candies, even brightly-colored sweetened cereal.

It’s an easy inexpensive treat for the holidays. I even share a fun way to make it into a fun homemade gift as well.

Santa Munch Christmas Trail Mix

This Christmas Trail Mix is a delicious sweet treat that’s simple to make. You can serve it to your Christmas guests at your holiday gathering, place it in a festive bowl to leave as Santa’s snack or even make it into a fun inexpensive gift.

I use sweetened popcorn as an inexpensive base, then add sweet and salty treats to complete my trail mix.  

How To Make Sweetened Popcorn

You can see more detailed directions to making Candied Popcorn Here.

But basically:

Melt the following ingredients to a rolling boil until it reaches the soft ball stage, which is around 235ºF for my altitude here in NE Texas. 

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      2 tablespoons of butter

      
      
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      1/4 cup water

      
      
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      1 cup of sugar

      
      

Then mix syrup quickly into popped popcorn to coat and allow to dry until crunchy. You can place the coated popcorn in a low-temperature oven for a few moments if desired for extra crunchiness.

Just be careful not to allow the popcorn to scorch.

Colorful Treats To Make Christmas Trail Mix

Now that you have the sweetened base for your Christmas Trail Mix, it’s time to add some fun salty and sweet treats. I use:

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    Salted peanuts

    
    
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    Small cheese crackers

    
    
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    Mini pretzels

    
    
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    Whopper’s chocolate candies

    
    
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    Christmas-colored M&M’s

    
    
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    Colorful sweetened cereal such as Cap’n Crunch w/Crunch Berries

    
    

Just gently mix the treats into the cooled sweetened popcorn. I love the bright colors and sweet/salty combination of this Christmas Trail Mix!

Christmas Trail Mix Makes A Great Gift Idea

I’ve even turned this Christmas Trail Mix into a cute and inexpensive Snowman Treat Jar Gift. I used large clean repurposed jars that once held peanut butter and decorated the jar to look like a snowman.

The primarily white popcorn works well with the snowman theme.

I gifted these to my young grandchildren one year and they loved it. You could also use it as an inexpensive gift idea for your coworkers, etc.

Happy Holidays, Y’all!

~TxH~

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