Strawberry Pretzel Salad is a family-favorite addition to so many special occasion meals and you’ll always find a large casserole dish with it’s sparkling red, strawberry filled top on the buffet for Easter, Southern reunions, and all throughout the summer. It is loved by so many and is always one of the first things to disappear.
Sweet, salty, creamy, and crunchy, it has so much going for it that it is always a definite hit!
There are so many versions of Strawberry Pretzel Salad served here in the south that I have no idea who invented the first version, but oh my goodness am I ever so thankful! It’s one of those dishes that goes with so many meals and works easily on the side – because, you know, it does have “salad” in it’s name – or as a dessert.
Here’s how I made it.
A family-favorite recipe for Strawberry Pretzel Salad.
Ingredients
- 2 cups pretzels, crushed
- 10 teaspoons butter, melted
- 3 teaspoons sugar
- 1 8-ounce package cream cheese
- 1 8-ounce tub Cool Whip
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 ½ cups boiling water
- 2 small packages strawberry Jell-O
- 2 10-ounce packages frozen strawberries
Instructions
http://addapinch.com/cooking/2012/02/27/strawberry-pretzel-salad-recipe/
- Preheat oven to 400˚.
- Mix crushed pretzels with butter and 3 teaspoons of sugar. Pour pretzel mixture into 9 x 13 inch casserole dish, press lightly, and bake 10 minutes. Remove and allow to cool completely.
- Mix cream cheese, sugar, and Cool Whip until smooth. Spread over cooled pretzels.
- Dissolve Jell-O with boiling water and mix in frozen strawberries. Refrigerate until it has slightly thickened. Pour over cream cheese mixture.
- Chill until firm and serve.
- Keep refrigerated.
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Be sure to make it soon for your family! I promise, it will be a hit!
Enjoy!
Robyn xoxo
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A unique recipe for sure!
And definitely memorable!
This is one of my favorite summer salads! A local tea room serves it too and it’s always something I order!
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Isn’t it amazing? My mouth waters just thinking about it!
I’ve always secretly wished I had been born a Southerner. This recipe is an example of why. LOVE these kind of old~fashioned favorites. I’m adding this to a Sunday Supper menu soon.
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Thanks, Kim! This is definitely one of those old-fashioned favorites my family has been making as long as I can remember. It was how my Grandmother would get me to eat the green beans at Easter.
I love the use of pretzels!
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It is absolutely perfection in this recipe!
I love seeing your food and picturing old-fashioned gatherings. You stay true to your Southern roots, and I love that about you and your blog. Have a great week!
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Thanks so much, Natalie! I hope you have a great week as well.
I can almost taste this right now! YUM!
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Thanks, Amy!
This reminds me of my mom. Except she always uses orange jello. I much prefer the strawberry, it looks amazing!
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Thanks, Cassie! I love it with the strawberry, too but I bet that orange tastes yummy.
It’s not just a southern thing, Y’all! It’s everywhere up north, too! We prefer strawberry, but have made orange jell-o w/ well drained mandarins; pineapple jell-o w/ well drained pineapple in syrup (DON’T use fresh or frozen, it won’t jell!); peach jell-o with well drained peaches in syrup (Same note as pineapple). Wish I could figure a good way to try it with lime jell-o, I love lime!
Look in your local stores for strawberry cool whip, last summer I had 1 tub regular & 1 tub strawberry, didn’t know what I was gonna do with the strawberry one. So I made the salad the regular way & then “frosted” the top with the strawberry cool whip, well you woulda thought it was the second comming or something, the way everyone clammered after me – what IS this on top, why didn’t you make it like that every time, gimme THIS recipe! For crying out loud it was the same salad I’d made them for the last 30+ years, just a little extra cool whip! I can’t seem to find the strawberry here locally now, maybe it’s just a summer thing for cool whip.
Thanks for sharing your lovely recipes with us!
Thanks so much for sharing all of your different ways of making this recipe, Are. The strawberry cool whip on top does sound delicious!
Hi Robyn! This is one of our favorites, and for some reason haven’t made it in a while. Love the info about your Grandmother and green beans – will have to try that with my granddaughter!!!! lol!! Thanks for (once again) reminding me to fix a certain recipe! Have a great week!
Oh yes, it’s a definite way to get the green beans eaten. It even works with my son now.
You’ll have to let me know how it works with your granddaughter!
I grew up in MN and the women there, my mother included, can make about anything from Jello and CoolWhip! This looks like something she’d love to whip up!
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Thanks Averie. Jello and CoolWhip have always been a magical fascination.
I think the instructions on step 2 might be wrong. It says to “add sugar and 3 teaspoons of melted butter”. There is no mention in the rest of the instructions for the rest of the melted butter so I am thinking it should be add butter and the 3 teaspoons of sugar. I am making this salad this weekend for my father-in-law’s 90th birthday. I think he will love it!
Thanks so much, Diane! Happy 90th birthday to your father-in-law! I know y’all will have a wonderful celebration. You are absolutely right! I’ve updated the recipe with that correction now. I hope everyone loves it for your father-in-law’s birthday.
This recipe is a family FAVE! GOOD GOOD GOOD stuff!!!
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I could eat it for breakfast, lunch, and supper!
If all salad looked like this, I’d eat it for every meal!!
Hello,
I haven’t heard of pretzel salad before but this one really looks great. It seems that preparation is not to demanding, so I really like it. Thanks.
WAY up in Wisconsin my family makes this all the time for birthday parties with raspberries and raspberry jello. I love it!
We used to have this at family gatherings all the time when I was young, I had forgotten it existed! Making it this weekend for the family reunion, so excited!