The phrase "an appealing mixture of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a combination of elements that are attractive or interesting in some way.
Example: "The dish was an appealing mixture of flavors, combining sweet, savory, and spicy notes."
Alternatives: "an attractive blend of" or "a delightful combination of".
And Reykjavik manages to be an appealing mixture of quaint old buildings and smashing new ones.
Kuala Lumpur has an appealing mixture of Asian cultures and English is widely spoken.
Corr's intensely colored gouache paintings are an appealing mixture of simple figures and detailed patterns.
The chocolate flan cake had an appealing mixture of textures and flavors.
Ms. Courtin's music is an appealing mixture of folk, blues and jazz influences, filtered through her own quirky, inventive sensibility.
He was an appealing mixture of high and low, serious and larky, and he had founded or run six startups.
Fox already has a very appealing mixture of the serious and the comic between the unlikely lead characters on "Sleepy Hollow".
And in Britain, with its ferocious and sentimental tabloids — the modern equivalents of the Penny Dreadfuls — a darkly appealing mixture of criminality and celebrity and sex is often presented as if it were merely a transcription of everyday reality.
Ever the appealing mixture of high and low — she snaps a rubber band on her wrist one moment and poses like "Jane Eaglen's Brünnhilde on the DVD overdue at the parish library" the next — Burma embodies Wilcox's notions about the difficulty of simply doing good in a world of competing interests, and she learns her own lesson from the mysterious Dr. Schine about how it may be possible.
Under the direction of Steve Campo, Ms. Booker captures Ms. Lederer's appealing mixture of corny good humor and hardheaded good sense (though happily she goes easy on the Midwest accent).
In "Janie Jones," the guitar-slinging pre-teen girl with the long black hair is 15-year-old Abigail Breslin, a little tougher-looking since her "Little Miss Sunshine" debut but sporting the same appealing mixture of pluck and vulnerability.
