Bunny Bait Recipe (Easter Snack Mix)

Bunny Bait – the MOST fun snack ever for Easter. This Easter Bunny Snack Mix is a fun and festive treat perfect for spring! With colorful M&M candies, crunchy pretzels, and white chocolate, it’s easy to make, very addictive and sure to be a hit with everyone. Let’s hop into the recipe!

Originally published March 2017, updated March 2025

​Bunny Bait

Bunny Bait Trail Mix is the perfect easy treat for Easter celebrations, classroom parties, or even Easter baskets. I mean seriously, it’s salty and sweet, with a crunchy texture and melt-in-your-mouth M&Ms, chocolate, and popcorn. It’s the best of all worlds!!

Another of my favorite things about this Easter Bunny Bait recipe is that I can make it under 20 minutes and it’s inexpensive! You could buy everything you need for less than $10 and still have snacks leftover!

Need a quick snack? Done. Need a fun treat to send to your kids’ class? Done. This is a no bake snack mix recipe that you can start and finish in under 20 minutes!

Why You’ll Love Easter Bunny Bait

• Quick and Easy: This fun snack mix comes together in minutes with simple ingredients. It’s a no-bake treat that anybody can make!
• Kid-Friendly: Bunny Bait Snack Mix is a fun and colorful treat that kids will love helping make and eat.
• Perfect for Parties: Great for Easter gatherings, classroom treats, or gift bags.
• Customizable: Change up the ingredients to fit your tastes!
• Festive and Fun: The pastel colors of this Bunny Mix add a cheerful touch to your Easter and spring celebrations!
• Sweet & Salty Snack: The combo of salty and sweet is the perfect treat and honestly – this is like Easter Crack.

Tools Needed

• Large Bowl
• Microwave Safe Bowl
• Silicone Spatula
• Wax Paper

Ingredients

For this Bunny Bait recipe with popcorn, you only need 4 ingredients! Of course you can add other things if you like, but it’s perfect with just these few things.

• Popcorn, Buttered & Salted. Usually when we snack on popcorn, we use an air popper with butter-flavored non-stick cooking spray and salt. But for this recipe, we use Extra Buttery Microwave Popcorn
• White Almond Bark or White Candy Melts
• Easter M&Ms (or other Pastel M&Ms)
• Pretzel Twists or Pretzel Sticks

How to Make Bunny Bait

​It will only take a few minutes to make this fun Easter food.

1. Line a baking sheet with wax paper and set aside.
2. Microwave a bag of popcorn and pour it into a large bowl. See my tip below for removing the unpopped seeds.
3. Add the pastel M&Ms and pretzel twists to the bowl.
4. Place the white chocolate in a microwave-safe bowl and microwave in 30-second intervals, stirring after each, until the melted candy is smooth.
5. Pour over the popcorn mix.
6. Use a silicone spatula to stir the popcorn mix and melted candy until well-coated.
7. Dump onto the sheet lined with wax paper and spread out.
8. Allow to harden.
9. Break into pieces.
10. Enjoy!!

Pro Tips

• To remove seeds from the popped popcorn, place a wire rack over a baking sheet. Pour the popcorn onto the wire rack and the unpopped seeds will fall through.
• You can substitute air-popped popcorn if you like, but we really prefer microwave popcorn for this recipe. The already salted, super buttery kind, if you must know.

Bunny Bait Add-Ins

I like to keep this Easter Trail Mix recipe simple with just a handful of ingredients. But there are certainly other things you an mix in:

• Peanuts
• Cereal (we prefer Rice Chex) for an Easter Chex Mix
• Raisins
• White Chocolate Chips or Pastel Chocolate Chips
• Pastel Sprinkles

Storage Directions

Store this Bunny Popcorn Mix in an airtight container at room temperature for up to a week. If you’re in a warmer climate or using chocolate that might melt, consider refrigerating it instead. For gifting, portion the mix into treat bags or jars and seal them tightly. 

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