Recipe: Delicious Strawberry Pretzel Salad

Strawberry Pretzel Salad. This phenomenal berry dish may have the word salad in the name, but it's okay if you call it a strawberry pretzel dessert instead. It's a great option if you need a sweet treat, and your oven is already full of tasty dishes. With a little prep, you'll be enjoying your Strawberry-Pretzel Salad in no time.

Let cool on a wire rack. 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. You can have Strawberry Pretzel Salad using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Strawberry Pretzel Salad

1. You need 2 of and 1/2 cups crushed pretzels.
2. Prepare 4 Tbsp of light brown sugar.
3. You need 1 stick of butter.
4. Prepare 2 (8 oz) of packages cream cheese (room temperature).
5. Prepare 1/2 cup of white sugar.
6. You need 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
7. You need 2 packages of dream whip (one box).
8. It's of Milk and vanilla.
9. Prepare 2 (16 oz) of packages fresh strawberries cut into 1/4 inch slices.
10. Prepare 1/4 cup of white sugar.
11. It's 1 box of strawberry Danish Dessert (4 and 3/4 oz box).
12. You need 1 of 13x9 glass pan.

In a medium bowl, beat the sugar and cream cheese until smooth. Spread evenly over the cooled crust. In a medium bowl, stir together the gelatin mix and boiling water. Mix in frozen strawberries, and stir until thawed.

Strawberry Pretzel Salad step by step

1. Crush the pretzels fine add brown sugar and butter. Mix and spread on the bottom of the 9x13 pan and bake in a 350 degree oven for 10 minutes and let cool.
2. Use a hand mixer and beat together the cream cheese, 1/2 cup white sugar and 1 tsp vanilla together.
3. Make the dream whip with the milk according to the directions on box then fold into the cream cheese mixture.
4. Spread the mixture on top of pretzel crust making sure you spread it all the way to the edges of the pan and chill in fridge for 2 hours.
5. Cut the strawberries and add 1/4 cup of sugar on top give them a stir to mix and place in fridge.
6. Make the Danish Dessert glaze according to the directions on box let cool for about 5 minutes then add the strawberries and set aside. This stuff sets up while it's HOT !! Jello could never do that.
7. When the cream cheese part is chilled take out of fridge and add the strawberry mixture on top of the cream cheese layer.
8. Put back in fridge to chill a few hours or overnight if you wish 😋 ENJOY !!!!!.

In a large mixing bowl cream together cream cheese and white sugar. Thank you for watching and sharing our videos with your friends and family. We really enjoy making video recipes for you all. Strawberry pretzel salad is a dessert or side dish made with a pretzel crust, cream cheese filling, and strawberry jello topping. Now, THIS is a "salad" I can get on board with. 😉 Most recipes you'll see call for frozen strawberries, but MY secret ingredient is fresh strawberries, because the texture is so much better.