Recipe: Appetizing Strawberry Pretzel Salad

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Strawberry Pretzel Salad. You'll Love This Versatile & Lovely Snack During Any Occasion. Prepare this sweet and salty Strawberry Pretzel Salad in the morning, pop it in the fridge to chill, and it will be all set (and so delicious!) come time to set out the summer dessert recipes at your afternoon or evening barbecue or picnic. There are a lot of desserts that call themselves salads — the cookie salad, the ambrosia salad, the candy bar apple salad — but strawberry pretzel salad is the queen of them all.

Ingredients include frozen strawberries,, pineapple, pretzels and cream cheese.

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I especially loved the layers in this dessert.

You can have Strawberry Pretzel Salad using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Strawberry Pretzel Salad

1. It’s 6 oz of strawberry Jell-O.

2. It’s 2 cups of boiling water.

3. It’s 2 1/2 cups of salted pretzels (measured before crushing).

4. It’s 1/4 cup of granulated sugar.

5. It’s 8 Tbsp of unsalted butter.

6. You need 8 oz of package cream cheese softened.

7. Prepare 1/2 cup of granulated sugar.

8. You need 8 oz of cool whip thawed in the fridge.

9. It’s 1 lb of fresh strawberries hulled and sliced.

The crunchy saltiness from the pretzel crust covered with a smooth and tangy cream cheese middle, and finished off perfectly with a fresh, sweet strawberry jello layer on top!

If you're like us, this strawberry gelatin, cream cheese, whipped topping, and pretzel creation brings back memories of church potlucks and family reunions.

We think of summer days, camping out on a picnic table in a park, and scooping this gelatin salad off of a paper plate with a plastic fork while sitting in a lawn chair.

We all know that one person who shows up with a Strawberry-Pretzel.

Strawberry Pretzel Salad instructions

1. Pre-heat oven to 350°F. Combine strawberry Jell-O with 2 cups boiling water and stir until completely dissolved. Set aside to cool to room temperature.

2. Crush 2 1/2 cups pretzels in a sturdy ziploc bag, using a rolling pin..

3. In a medium sauce pan, melt 8 Tbsp butter then add 1/4 cup sugar and stir. Mix in crushed pretzels. Transfer to a 13x9 glass casserole dish, pressing the pretzel mix evenly over the bottom of the dish and bake for 10 min at 350°F, then cool to room temp..

4. When pretzels have cooled, use an electric hand mixer to beat 8 oz cream cheese and 1/2 cup sugar on med/high speed until fluffy and white. Fold in 8 oz Cool Whip until no streaks of cream cheese remain. Spread mixture over cooled pretzels, spreading to the edges of the dish to create a tight seal. Refrigerate 30 min..

5. Hull and slice 1 lb strawberries then stir into your room temperature jello. Pour and spread strawberry jello mixture evenly over your cooled cream cheese layer and refrigerate until jello is set (2-4 hours.

In a bowl, combine the pretzels, butter and sugar.

This Strawberry Pretzel Salad is obviously not a salad, but as long as I have known about this dessert, it's always been called a salad.

It's kind of like my Pineapple Walnut Salad.

But I'm totally fine calling it one.

I'm happy to add this salad to my menu any day.