Happy Birthday to my sweet, strawberry-loving husband, Keith! One of his favorite (and mine too) strawberry dishes is the versatile strawberry pretzel dessert. Some of my friends refer to this as a salad (maybe because of the Jello and fruit?). I consider it a dessert. It's so good...you'll be craving this on your birthday too!
Strawberry Pretzel
3 Tbsp sugar
2 cups crushed pretzels
3/4 cups melted butter
1/2 cup powdered sugar
8 oz package cream cheese, softened
2 1/2 cups boiling water
1 regular container whipped topping, thawed
6 oz package strawberry Jello
10 oz package frozen strawberries
1 1/2 cups mini marshmallows
Preheat oven to 350. Mix sugar, pretzels and melted butter in 9x13 pan. Bake for 15 minutes at 350, mixture will look bubbly. Set aside to cool. Cream together cream cheese and powdered sugar. Fold whipped topping and marshmallows into cheese mixture. Spread over baked pretzel layer. Boil 2 1/2 cups of water; dissolve in strawberry Jello. Stir in frozen strawberries. Chill Jello until slightly thickened, then spread over top cheese/whipped topping layer and chill until Jello is completely set. Store in the refrigerator. May be made ahead of time.
Options: Try making with raspberry Jello and frozen raspberries or peach Jello and frozen peaches.
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