The Best Trail Mix Recipe Ever

This upcoming week, hundreds of members will receive our highlighted small-batch item: a house-made traceable trial mix with maple & black pepper house-dried cranberries.

Last night, I made a batch and I’ll show you how I did it.

First, I knew we had some dehydrated cranberries from this past Fall still stored away and they are a very unique addition to any trail mix. Usually dried cranberries from the store are sweetened, but because we dehydrated these ourselves from fresh, these cranberries we had were tart little puff balls that made you wince.

I put them in a bowl with gooey dried bing cherries, walnut crumbles and dust, oily brined and roasted pumpkin seeds (from StonyBrook upstate!), and a glug of local maple syrup and some freshly ground black pepper.

After massaging it all together for a minute and popping some of the cranberries to let the mess of juices cover them inside and out, I tried one.

Sweet and savory goodness. The maple and black pepper were the key to bringing those cranberries from tart to tasty.

From there the process for making a few small batches of trail mix was a breeze. In a large bowl I combined equal parts: