Orange Pretzel Salad
OK, so you got me on this one, technically this is NOT a Dessert, but in my world it is! I love to make this at Christmas and in the Summer for family events, it works perfect as a Salad and Dessert, but with my family it usually doesn't last until dessert. I get really tired of making a separate Salad and Dessert, for myself all of the time, and I'm sure many of you understand what I'm talking about. This is one of the most requested dishes I bring, to all events, it must have something to do with the Salty and Sweet, as long as no one can tell it's Gluten Free I have done my job, and I certainly don't tell them until they have eaten every last bite!!! Enjoy, Natalie
Ingredients:
Adapted from Taste of Home
Crust-
-2 cups when crushed Snyder's Gluten Free Pretzels (crushed Finely)
-5 TB sugar
- 3/4 butter melted
Preheat oven to 350 degrees, use an ungreased 9x13 inch pan, and press the pretzels into the bottom. Bake for 12 min, then cool completely.
Put your Pretzels in a food processor, or if you don't have one you can put them in a gallon Ziploc bag, and pound then with a mallet or coffee cup. Make sure you break the pretzels up to a fine chop. Notice how NOT fine mine are. My son helped and he wanted to pound them with a mallet, he got bored and didn't pound them small enough, so WHEN COOKED IT FALLS APART, tastes great, doesn't look PRETTY!!! Also, do not use Glutino Pretzels with this recipe, they go SOGGY, super fast and it is sooo NASTY!!!! Trust me on this!Cream Cheese Layer
- 1 Cream Cheese 8oz. softened
-1/2 cup sugar-small container of Cool whip (2 cups) if you want more for the topping later, buy a big one.
Use a hand mixer or stand mixer and beat the cream cheese and sugar until they are fluffy, then add the Cool Whip and mix it in, and make it all fluffly together. Make sure and scrape the sides and bottom, the cream cheese likes to stick. Then smooth this all over the bottom of the Pretzel Crust, edge to edge, as to MAKE A SEAL, so the Jello won't leak. Put into the fridge while you make the Jello, it will speed the Jello along.
