Strawberry Pretzel Salad. Discover hundreds of ways to save on your favorite products. 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. Judy's Strawberry Pretzel Salad Judy's Strawberry Pretzel Salad.

Thank you for watching and sharing our videos with your friends and family. We really enjoy making video recipes for you all. 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. 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. You need 2 cups of boiling water.
3. It's 2 1/2 cups of salted pretzels (measured before crushing).
4. You need 1/4 cup of granulated sugar.
5. You need 8 Tbsp of unsalted butter.
6. You need 8 oz of package cream cheese softened.
7. You need 1/2 cup of granulated sugar.
8. Prepare 8 oz of cool whip thawed in the fridge.
9. You need 1 lb of fresh strawberries hulled and sliced.

The retro Southern summertime favorite is one of the easiest, prettiest, and most refreshing fresh fruit desserts around. This classic strawberry pretzel salad dessert recipe from Paula Deen is perfect for cookouts or picnics. Ingredients include frozen strawberries,, pineapple, pretzels and cream cheese. In a bowl, combine the pretzels, butter and sugar.

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.

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 makes a classic, nostalgic recipe. It is deliciously creamy, crunchy, sweet, salty and great for any gathering!