Spring Trail Mix

This Spring Trail Mix is a bright, sweet, and salty snack that comes together in minutes. With colorful cereal, crunchy pretzels, and soft marshmallows, every handful is fun and irresistible. It's the perfect easy snack for spring parties, lunchboxes, road trips, or a quick treat anytime.

Recipe Essentials

• 🍽️ Course: Snack
• ⏱️ Cooking Time: 5 Minutes
• 🍴 Servings: 5 cups
• 🧄 Flavor Profile: Sweet, crunchy, lightly salty
• 🍚 Best Served With: Lunchboxes, picnics, spring parties
• 🧊 Make Ahead?: Yes, perfect for prepping ahead

I love how the colorful cereals and cookies make it look festive while the mix of sweet and salty keeps everyone reaching for more. Best of all, this recipe could not be easier.

This was inspired by my cheddar chex mix and s'mores snack mix on this site, and pairs well with these chocolate covered banana pops and fruity pebbles banana pops.

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• Why You Will Love This Recipe
• Ingredients
• Variations
• Instructions
• Recipe Tips
• Serving Suggestions
• Recipe FAQs
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• Spring Trail Mix

Why You Will Love This Recipe

• Perfect sweet and salty balance. Pretzels add a salty crunch that pairs perfectly with the customizable sweet cereal and cookies.
• Kid-friendly. Kids love the fun colors, shapes, and marshmallow bites. Portion into small bags for easy snacks throughout the week.
• Budget-friendly. Simple pantry ingredients keep this 5 minute recipe affordable.

Ingredients

This recipe uses common ingredients that are easy to find at most grocery stores or Amazon.

• Strawberry Vanilla Chex. Adds fruity flavor and crunchy texture to the mix. If you can't find it, very berry Cheerios or another flavored cereal works well too.
• Lucky Charms. Brings sweetness and colorful marshmallow shapes that make the mix fun and festive.
• Small Twists Pretzels. Adds salty crunch that balances the sweetness of the other ingredients. Stick pretzels would work great too.
• Annie's Bunny Cookies. These small cookies add a light graham flavor and extra crunch.
• Mini Marshmallows. Soft, sweet bites that tie the whole mix together.

See the recipe card below for the exact quantities of each ingredient.

Variations

• Easter Candy Mix. Stir in mini chocolate eggs, pastel M&M's, pastel candy coated chocolates or jelly beans.
• Nutty Mix. Add roasted almonds, peanuts, or cashews.
• Yogurt Mix. Toss in yogurt covered raisins or yogurt chips.
• Berry Mix. Add freeze dried strawberries or blueberries.
• Cookie Mix. Mix in mini chocolate chip cookies or graham crackers.
• A Little Protein Mix. Add pumpkin seeds or sunflower seeds.

Check out my baby trail mix and these chocolate caramel muddy buddies if you enjoy recipes like this. You should also try my chocolate Chex mix. It's really good.

Instructions

This simple recipe takes only a few quick steps to make.

If you love recipes like this, you may also enjoy my peanut butter chex mix and lemon chex mix.

Serving Suggestions

• Pack into small snack bags for school lunches with fruit.
• Serve in bowls at spring parties or Easter gatherings.
• Add to picnic baskets with our turtle cookies and chopped Italian sandwiches for outdoor meals.
• Use as a quick afternoon snack.
• Serve during movie nights with our toffee crunch popcorn bars.
• Place in mason jars for cute homemade gifts.
• Add to road trip snack containers with our peanut butter and jelly graham cracker sandwiches.
• Include in holiday snack trays.
• Use as a sweet, crunchy topping for yogurt parfaits or vanilla ice cream.

Don't forget to try my peanut butter Chex mix. You won't regret it.

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