What do you do when the holidays leave you with bits of nuts and fruits? Dump all those odds and ends in a bowl, stir in some melted chocolate and call them clusters. These won’t win any beauty awards, but they are great to have on hand when a craving for salty chocolate hits.

There aren’t any precise measurements with this sort of thing, and just about anything will work. I ended up with about 3 cups of dried cranberries, sliced almonds, salted cashews and hazelnuts which were covered with about 6 ounces of melted bittersweet chocolate. Once the fruit and nuts were thoroughly coated, I made tablespoon-size mounds of the mixture on parchment paper. To help the chocolate set faster, I put them in the refrigerator for 10 minutes.

See? Piece of cake.