Scary Barbecue Snack Mix

Ingredients for Scary Barbecue Snack Mix

• 1450ml popcorn (45g

• see Cooks' notes)

• 475ml coarsely broken blue corn tortilla crisps (80g)

• 230g Cheddar fish-shaped crackers or other cheese crackers (110g)

• 300g corn nuts (180g) or smokehouse almonds

• 1 stick (120ml ) unsalted butter

• 120ml barbecue sauce

• 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce

• 2 tablespoons sugar

• 2 teaspoons smoked paprika (sometimes labeled pimentón dulce)

• 2 teaspoons chilli powder

• 2 teaspoons garlic powder

• 1/2 teaspoons Tabasco (optional)

• Large (18- by 13-inch) rimmed baking sheet

Heat oven to 149°C with rack in middle. Grease rimmed baking sheet with oil.

Combine popcorn, tortilla crisps, cheese crackers, and corn nuts in a large bowl.

Melt butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Remove pan from heat and whisk in barbecue sauce, Worcestershire sauce, sugar, paprika, chilli and garlic powders, and Tabasco, if using.

Drizzle barbecue sauce mixture over snack mix and stir until combined well.

Evenly spread mixture in baking sheet and bake, stirring and turning mixture over every 10 minutes, for a total of 40 minutes. Cool in pan on a wire rack (it will crisp as it cools), then break into pieces.

Disclaimer

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