MAPLE PUMPKIN SPICE TRAIL MIX

Pumpkin spice season has arrived — and we’re leaning all the way in with our Maple Pumpkin Spice Trail Mix. From coffee and baked goods to cereals and snacks, the market’s appetite for all things pumpkin spice shows no signs of slowing down. Our response? Sorry, not sorry. 🤷

Maple Pumpkin Spice Trail Mix is a perfectly portable snack that brings fall’s favorite flavor into the day. With crunchy seeds, naturally sweet dried fruit, rich maple flavor, and warming seasonal spices, every handful delivers the cozy taste of autumn with ingredients selected to help you refuel and keep going.

That balance is what all the recipes in our Powered by FLIK series are all about: house-made snacks and bites that pair culinary creativity with simple ingredients and purposeful nutritional benefits.

Like Caramel Apple Granola Parfaits, we’re celebrating the best of the season’s flavors while focusing on a functional snack can still be fun, familiar, and completely craveable — especially when pumpkin spice is involved.

Functional Foods at Work

Functional foods provide nutritional benefits that extend beyond basic nourishment. This trail mix brings several of them together in one satisfying handful:

• Dried Apricots: Dried apricots provide potassium, an essential mineral that supports normal muscle function, nerve signaling and fluid balance.
• Sunflower Seeds: Sunflower seeds are a source of vitamin E, an antioxidant that helps protect cells from oxidative stress and supports immune function.
• Dried Cherries: Dried cherries contain antioxidants, including plant compounds that help protect cells from oxidative stress.

Bringing dried apricots, sunflower seeds, and dried cherries together creates a sweet and satisfying mix that delivers a variety of nutrients in every handful, along with the flavors and textures that make fall snacking so delicious. 

Maple Pumpkin Spice Trail Mix, Seeds, Dried Fruit

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Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
2. In a small saucepan, heat maple syrup, pumpkin pie spice, and salt. Bring to a low simmer. Stir in pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds, then reduce until almost all the maple syrup adheres to the nuts and seeds.
3. Coat a parchment-lined sheet with cooking spray.
4. Layer the seed/maple mixture on the prepared pan. Bake in the oven, stirring every 10 minutes, until all the seeds are toasted and golden brown. This should take about 15-20 minutes.
5. Allow the seeds to cool completely. The mixture will harden as it sits.
6. While the seed mixture cools, cut the dried apricots in half.
7. Once at room temperature, break the seed into small clusters. Add the clusters into a large bowl, and mix together with apricots, cherries, golden raisins, and butterscotch chips.