How to Cook Tasty Strawberry Pretzel Salad

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In a bowl, combine the pretzels, butter and sugar. I especially loved the layers in this dessert. 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! You can cook Strawberry Pretzel Salad using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Strawberry Pretzel Salad

1. Prepare 6 oz of strawberry Jell-O.
2. It's 2 cups of boiling water.
3. You need 2 1/2 cups of salted pretzels (measured before crushing).
4. It's 1/4 cup of granulated sugar.
5. You need 8 Tbsp of unsalted butter.
6. Prepare 8 oz of package cream cheese softened.
7. Prepare 1/2 cup of granulated sugar.
8. Prepare 8 oz of cool whip thawed in the fridge.
9. It's 1 lb of fresh strawberries hulled and sliced.

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.

Strawberry Pretzel Salad step by step

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.

Strawberry Pretzel Salad is an absolute must make during the holidays (or even the New Year!), especially when you can make it SUGAR FREE (optional) but just as delicious as the traditional version! This Sugar Free Strawberry Pretzel Salad recipe is made with layers of salty and buttery pretzels. 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. Thank you for watching and sharing our videos with your friends and family.