Strawberry Pretzel Salad
"I got this recipe from my Grandma, but I tweaked it a little by adding the extracts. They make the whipped cream taste fresher."
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
-
8-12
ingredients
- 2 cups pretzels, finely crushed
- 3⁄4 cup butter or 3/4 cup margarine, melted
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese or (8 ounce) package neufchatel cheese
- 1 cup sugar
- 8 ounces Cool Whip, thawed in fridge
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon orange extract or 1 teaspoon lemon extract
- 2 (3 ounce) packages strawberry gelatin
- 2 cups boiling water
- 2 (10 ounce) packages frozen strawberries, par thawed and sliced
directions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Stir together first 3 ingredients.
- Mix well and press into bottom of 13x9x2 inch baking pan.
- Bake for 8 to 10 minutes.
- Set aside or refrigerate to cool.
- In a large mixing bowl, or in a stand mixer cream together sugar and cream cheese, gradually add in extracts.
- Fold in Cool Whip gently until mixture is fluffy.
- Spread mixture onto cooled pretzel crust.
- In separate bowl, dissolve gelatin into boiling water.
- Stir in frozen strawberries and allow to set until about egg white consistency. If you use fresh stawberries, this will take longer, but if you use frozen, it will be very quick.
- Once correct consistency, pour and spread evenly over the cream cheese layer.
- Refrigerate until fully set.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Sarah Goodpasture
Collinsville, 76
Love to cook, bake, And play with flavors! I'm an avid lover of Alton Brown, Food Network, therefor Good Eats, and multi- taskers. I love my kitchen gadgets and cannot live without my Kitchen Aid stand mixer.
