Submitted by nicole on Mon, 09/22/2014 - 12:45

Malted Pretzel Snack Mix is an amazing crunchy, salty and sweet snack. Salty pretzel bits and peanuts are covered and cooked in a rich mixture of brown sugar, butter, and finished off with rich, delicious malt powder.

Two parchment cones filled with malted pretzel peanut snack mix on a dark wooden surface.

I pick salty over sweet most of the time, but a snack that mixes both--now that's something I can really get behind! I also absolutely adore malt anything. Malted milk balls, classic malts, eating malt powder straight from the jar... Anything malted is good, in my book. I decided that I wanted to try to mix these two loves, and developed this amazing sack, Malted Pretzel Peanut Crunch.

Oh, how I could rhapsodize about this snack mix. Salty, sweet, buttery, crunchy, peanuty, malty goodness!

Malted Pretzel Peanut Crunch Recipe:

1 bag of pretzels, crushed
2 cups peanuts
1 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup white sugar
1 cup powdered milk
3 sticks butter
1 cup malted milk powder

Pretzels being crushed to make Malted Pretzel Snack Mix.

Start with the therapeutic part: crushing the pretzels. I opened a small hole in the top of the bag to let the air out before going at it with my kitchen mallet, so I wouldn't have any surprise pretzel explosions in my kitchen. You could use any hard object; just crush the pretzels into smaller pieces.

Brown sugar, white sugar, butter, and powdered milk being melted together to make Malted Pretzel Snack Mix.

Combine the butter, brown sugar, white sugar, and powdered milk in a sauce pan. (Not the malt powder! That comes later.) Over medium heat, stir until the butter is melted and the mixture starts to bubble.

Butter and sugar mixture being mixed with peanuts and broken pretzels in a large roasting pan.

Pour the mixture over the pretzel pieces and peanuts in a large roasting pan (or two smaller pans) and mix well, so that all of the pieces get nicely coated.

Malt powder being mixed in to the Malted Pretzel Snack Mix ingredients.

Now it's time to add the malt powder to the sticky, sauce covered pretzels and peanuts. Mix again to distribute the malt powder evenly.

Two parchment paper cones filled with Malted Pretzel Snack Mix on a dark wood surface.

Bake at 250 degrees Fahrenheit for one hour, stirring every 15 minutes (just like making Chex mix).

Two parchment paper cones filled with Malted Pretzel Snack Mix on a dark wood surface.

Let cool, and dig in! This is great as a snack mix, but it's absolutely AMAZING as a topping for vanilla ice cream. Maybe with a little homemade hot fudge sauce. Oh yeah.