A ridiculously easy Butter Luxe Trail Mix for when your afternoon snack deserves better.

There is a very specific point in the workday when lunch feels like a distant memory, dinner is still offensively far away, and suddenly the contents of your kitchen become extremely interesting.

You could eat another handful of whatever happens to be closest.

Or you could make your desk snack significantly more exciting.

Enter: Butter Luxe Trail Mix.

It’s buttery. Crunchy. Salty. Sweet. A little tart. And, most importantly, requires approximately zero culinary ambition.

Make a batch at the beginning of the week, keep it within rolling-chair distance, and consider your 3 PM snack situation handled.

BUTTER LUXE TRAIL MIX

Makes: About 6 servings
Prep time: 5 minutes
Difficulty level: Can be accomplished between Zoom calls

YOU’LL NEED

• 4 cups popped Opopop Butter Luxe Popcorn

• 1 cup mini pretzels

• ¾ cup roasted salted cashews

• ½ cup dried tart cherries

• ½ cup dark chocolate chunks

• ½ cup toasted coconut chips, roughly broken

HERE’S THE VERY COMPLICATED METHOD

Pop the Butter Luxe.

Let it cool for a minute or two so we don't accidentally turn those dark chocolate chunks into chocolate sauce.

Add the popcorn, pretzels, cashews, dried cherries, dark chocolate and coconut chips to a big bowl.

Toss.

Done.

We told you this was a work-from-home recipe, not a cooking show audition.

WHY THIS COMBO WORKS

Butter Luxe brings the rich, buttery part.

Pretzels and salted cashews bring the crunch.

Tart cherries keep all that richness from getting too rich.

Dark chocolate handles the obvious and extremely important job of being chocolate.

And toasted coconut chips add one more crispy-sweet thing to hunt for at the bottom of the bowl.

Every handful is a little different, which is exactly how trail mix should be.

THE FORMULA IS VERY FLEXIBLE

No cashews? Use almonds or peanuts.

Not a dried-cherry household? Cranberries work.

Milk chocolate person? We aren't here to judge.

Want more Butter Luxe?

Excellent instinct. Add more Butter Luxe.

Just keep the basic formula in mind: something buttery + something salty + something crunchy + something chewy + something chocolate.

It's very difficult to mess this up.

YOUR DESK DRAWER COULD NEVER

Sure, you could keep a sad granola bar next to your charger.

But you could also have a container full of buttery popcorn, salty cashews, pretzels, tart cherries and chunks of chocolate waiting for you.

We know which meeting snack we're choosing.

Happy popping.