Jello Recipes
Strawberry Pretzel Jello Salad
Rather than being a soft jello dessert, this pretzel jello salad is a dessert in three layers. First is a crunchy pretzel layer, and then you have a creamy, marshmallow layer. Finally, there is a strawberry jello layer. This pretzel jello salad looks wonderfully attractive because of its layered effect and tastes amazing too, because all the ingredients go together so well.
Not many jello recipes are baked but the pretzel layer in this jello recipe is baked to melt the butter and sugar in the pretzel layer, to make it set, and give it a really mouthwatering caramel flavor. For a very special jello dessert recipe, this pretzel jello salad is a really great one to try.
You could save time by using a readymade piecrust for this strawberry pretzel jello salad, or use cereal instead of pretzels if you do not like them. You can use a different kind of jello too, if you wanted. Raspberry jello with frozen raspberries in the topping would be really good, or orange jello with mandarin segments. That is the great thing about jello recipes like this pretzel jello salad. If you want to switch one flavor of jello for another, it usually works just fine.
Crunchy Pretzel Jello Salad
Ingredients -
2 cups crushed pretzels
3 tablespoons sugar
2 ½ cups boiling water
6 oz pack strawberry jello
8 oz cream cheese, softened
2 cups mini marshmallows
¾ cup melted butter
8 oz dessert topping
10 oz frozen strawberries
½ cup powdered sugar
Preparation:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Combine the melted butter, sugar and crushed pretzels. Press this mixture into a 9 x 13 inch baking pan and bake for 15 minutes.
Set this aside to cool.
Cream the powdered sugar with the cream cheese, and then fold in the marshmallows and dessert topping. Spread this over the pretzel crust.
Mix the jello in boiling water, adding the strawberry juice. Stir in the strawberries. When the mixture has thickened a bit, pour it over the cream cheese layer. Refrigerate until set.
(Serves 8)
