Author Notes: Pretzels, sesame sticks, coconut chips, and peanuts are made even crunchier with a sesame seed coating. When the mix is in the oven and still tacky, you'll stir it around every 15 minutes and shower it with a coat of seeds every time. When the mix comes out of the oven, it's craggy and alluring, but a little sticky, too—that's the soy sauce and hot honey, which you can yourself or purchase. 

Hot Honey-Sesame Snacky Mix

Makes 12 cups

• 1/4cup unsalted butter
• 1/3cup hot honey
• 1/3cup soy sauce
• 4cups pretzels of any small variety (crisps, rods, twists)
• 4cups sesame sticks
• 2cups unsalted, roasted peanuts
• 2cups coconut shards/chips (not shredded)
• Sesame seeds, for coating

1. Heat the oven to 275° F. Line 2 (but preferably 3, if you have them) baking sheets with parchment paper.
2. Melt the butter with the hot honey and soy sauce over low heat, stirring from time to time and until the honey has melted. Stick a pretzel in and taste the seasoning: Is it spicy enough? If not, add more honey. Is it too salty? Add more honey. Is it missing something else entirely (rice vinegar, curry powder, chile paste)? Go ahead and add it!
3. Meanwhile, in an enormous bowl, mix together the pretzels, sesame sticks, peanuts, and coconut. Look at it: Feel like there's not enough pretzels or coconut for your liking? Add more.
4. When the butter mixture's melted, pour it over the snack mixture and mix well (with your hands, preferably, but a spoon is okay). Make sure all the ingredients are well coated.
5. Spread the mix onto the prepared baking sheets thinly and evenly; you want everything to crisp up evenly.
6. Then, sprinkle a shower of sesame seeds over. Bake for 15 minutes, then take the mixture out, give it a stir, and shower again with sesame seeds. Repeat after 15 more minutes in the oven. Your mix is done when it's crisped, usually around 45 minutes.
7. Let cool. Store in an airtight container for up to a week.

https://food52.com/recipes/67447-hot-honey-sesame-snacky-mix