Raspberry Pretzel Salad

I just made this last night and it was so yummy I wanted to share!!! Raspberries, cream cheese, cool whip and pretzels. WOW! This was so delicious! The pretzels added the perfect addition. This is a must try recipe!

Raspberry Pretzel Salad

Ingredients:

Layer 1-

2 cups of pretzels (crushed)

1 1/2 cubes of butter or margarine melted

3 T sugar

Combine crushed pretzels, butter and sugar. Bake and 400 for 10 min. Refrigerate for 2 hours.

Layer 2-

8 oz. cream cheese (softened)

8 oz. cool whip (softened)

3/4 cups of sugar

Cream together cream cheese, cool whip and sugar. Pour on top of Pretzels and refrigerate for 1 1/2 hours.

Layer 3-

1 pkg Raspberry Jell-O (Lg box)

2 cups of boiling water

1/4 cup of cold water

2 packages of frozen raspberries or fresh raspberries ( I got 2 small cartons of fresh raspberries and used a potatoe musher and mixed them up a little bit!) You could use strawberries, mixed berries.

Mix together Jell-O and water. Pour into large bowl and mix in the raspberries. Pour on top of cream cheese mixture and refrigerate until Jell-O is hard.

Sunshine Jell-o

I got this recipe from Mike’s aunt Laurel…It is Divine, and it is so easy and quick. It seems like I always need to take a salad to some family or church event and this one is quick and really yummy! It reminds me of the sunsets that we are having in Arizona! Gorgeous!

Ingredients:

1 large package of orange jell-o

2 small packages of cook lemon pudding

1 large package of instant vanilla pudding

1 large cool whip (8 oz)

3 small jars of mandarin oranges

4 cups of milk

Directions:

Cook lemon pudding over stove using 4 cups of milk, bring to a boil. While lemon pudding is trying to cook, have 2 cups of water boiling for orange jello. Mix the 2 cups of boiling water to the orange jello make sure the gelatin is dissolved. In a large baking pan mix the lemon pudding together with the orange jello. Mix the jello and pudding mixture together with a wire whisk or mixer. Place into refrigerator and let it settle (firm). After the jello is settled, in a large bowl mix 2 cups of milk with the large package of instant vanilla pudding. Pour pudding mixture into a separate bowl or into the cool whip container (if there is enough room to mix). Mix the cool whip and vanilla pudding together. Pour over jello and decorate the top with mandarin oranges. Keep refrigerated.

Raspberry Velvet Jell-o Salad

I made this for the 4th of July last year and it was yummy and patriotic! Now it is a tradition to make this every year for the 4th of July!

For the Raspberry Velvet

2 (6 oz.) box raspberry gelatin
1 (6 oz.) box vanilla pudding
4 c. water
1 pkg of fresh raspberries

1 3/4 c. milk

1 pkg of fresh blueberries
1 (9 oz.) frozen whipped topping

Mix vanilla pudding with pie instructions 1 3/4 cup of milk, set aside. Boil 2 cups of water then mix with raspberry gelatin, mix well. Combine pudding and gelatin really well and put it fridge set up.

Decorative Top

Whipped cream in can

Blueberries

big raspberries

Put the blueberries in a sqaure, I tried to get it exact but had to do more blueberries not the original flag!, then Layer raspberries. For the cream that is in between the raspberries do a stop and go action with the whipped cream, and it is ready! So festive and very yummy, I love to serve it with a little more cream on top…Enjoy!