Easy Homemade Trail Mix Without Raisins

Jun 29, 2025

Why You'll Love This Recipe

Trail mix is one of those things that sounds sort of "meh" until you've had a good batch of it.

Once that happens, you'll become sort of obsessed and who knows? Maybe it'll be one of your very favorite snacks too!

This easy homemade trail mix without raisins fantastic! Here's some good reasons to make it:

Trail mixes make quick snack for road trips, day trips or just a little pick me up you can store in your purse for the day
This stuff lasts a while! This perfect snack can be made it today and eaten for a week or two!
It's healthy-ish. Dark chocolate is good for you, right? :) Try milk chocolate chips, white chocolate chips and even peanut butter chips for variation too!

For the full recipe and list of ingredients, please scroll to the recipe card below.

Dark Chocolate: This is fabulous in trail mix, and we use two forms: dark chocolate drops (or dark chocolate chips) and wafers.
Pecans: Whole that we'll toast...they taste like caramel!
Dried Figs: Really great flavor with these, so I encourage you to try them if you never have.
Almonds: We'll use whole almonds, roasted, and salted.
Dried Apricots: For flavor and color
Dried Cranberries: The tartness is delicious with the chocolate...:)
Cashews: Whole, salted
Crispy Clusters: We'll make these, with a little left over.

For the full recipe and instructions, please scroll to the recipe card below.

To make the cereal oat clusters that go into this trail mix, here's all you do: Combine the oats, brown rice cereal, coconut, seasonings and maple syrup in a medium bowl

2. Gently toss together and place on a large baking sheet lined with parchment paper, like in the photo above.

3. Bake and cool, break into pieces to add to the trail mix

Measure out your ingredients first, this will make things quicker
Bake and cool the pecans when you start, the pecans have much more flavor when toasted.
There will be more Cinnamon Oat Clusters than you need for the recipe, but they're great for snacking or with yogurt, and they keep well for a couple weeks in a well-sealed container.
Try using milk, white or peanut butter chips in this recipe instead of dark chocolate.
Try adding some golden raisins too!

This is a fantastic gourmet trail mix recipe that's sweet, salty and super versatile

Course: Side Dish

Total Time: 42 minutes

Preheat oven to 375F, line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
Toast the pecans by placing them in a glass pie plate or on a baking sheet. Bake for 8-10 minutes. Set aside to cool.
For the Cinnamon Oat Clusters, combine the oats, brown rice cereal, coconut, salt, cinnamon and maple syrup in a medium-sized bowl.
Gently mix all the ingredients together, tossing with your hands until combined.
Form the oat mixture into a rectangle about 1/4 inch thick on the large baking sheet, patting the mixture down to keep it in place.
Bake for 10-12 minutes, until the edges are golden. To not stir. Remove from oven and set aside to cool completely. Once cooled, break it into large clusters.
For the trail mix, combine the California Mission Figs, apricots, dark chocolate wafers, dark chocolate sun drops, cranberries, pecans, almonds, cashews, and oat clusters in a large bowl.
Carefully toss the ingredients to combine, noting that that Cinnamon Oat Clusters are a bit fragile when combined with the nut mixture, so sprinkle them on top.
Store in an airtight container, makes about 11 cups.

There will be more Cinnamon Oat Clusters than you need for the recipe, but they’re great for snacking or with yogurt, and they keep well for a couple weeks in a well-sealed container.
Measure out your ingredients first, this will make things quicker.
Bake and cool the pecans when you start, the pecans have much more flavor when toasted.