Cooking with Jodi: Strawberry cream cheese pretzel salad

Strawberry Jello Pretzel Salad


Ingredients * 2 Cups Finely Chopped Pretzels * 1/2 Cup Sugar, divided * 2/3 Cup Butter, melted * 12 oz Cream Cheese, softened * 2 Tbsp Milk * 1 Cup Cool Whip, thawed * 2 Cups Boiling Water * 1 Pkg (6 oz) Jello (Strawberry) * 1.5 Cups Cold Water * 1 Qt. Strawberries (sliced)

Cooking Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 2. Mix pretzels, 1/4 cup sugar and butter 3. Press mixture firmly into bottom of 13x9 inch baking dish 4. Bake 10 minutes and cool. 5. Beat cream cheese, milk and remaining 1/4 cup sugar - until well blended 6. Gently stir in cool whip 7. Spread over pretzel crust 8. Refrigerate until Jello is ready 9. Stir boiling water into gelatin in large bowl, at least 2 minutes 10. Stir in cold water 11. Refrigerate 1.5 hours, until thickened 12. Stir strawberries into jello 13. Spread jello mixture over cream cheese layer 14. Refrigerate 3 hours or until firm

Music: Allison Crowe Time after Time

I watched a couple of weeks ago an interview with Cindi Lauper she said that Time after Time is the song that is most covered by hers. Last night I found a cover which I thought is appropriate for this video.

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[ledzep126]

Didn't you spay the bottom of the pan? My friend makes this with lime jello. Very good.

[Goobian]

I think it would of been better if I just put foil on the bottom. I don't think pam or anything like that would of helped. I scraped it out from what I remember.

[EmeraldFlame69]

Hmm... do I know how to make jello? Hey what's that burning smell? (The jello burst into flames) OK I guess not...

[Goobian]

Honestly I think that skipping the sugar on the bottom and then putting splenda to taste for the middle part would be fine. The recipe is in the description. It's not that hard to make just time consuming. If you know how to make Jello you can make this.

[EmeraldFlame69]

Well Spenda is supposed to taste like sugar so it might work. I'll have to check out their website later and see if they have any recipes. Mind you I can't cook for the life of me so I don't know why I'm getting all anal about this...

[Goobian]

Maybe just the melted butter would work. I don't think it would taste like shit if you take out 1/4 cup of sugar from the bottom.

[EmeraldFlame69]

Good point. Oh well I suppose a little sugar can't hurt but I gotta watch it with that stuff as it is my weakness...

[EmeraldFlame69]

We should indeed start our own rainbow mug club as I'm sure other people out there (pun intended) have the same exact mug. Personally my favorite mug is the one my Aunt Patsy gave me several years ago. I made a mention that I LOVED art and that I liked Munch's "Scream". The next thing I know she goes into an artistic coffee shop and buys me a "Scream" mug. She always spoiled me like that...

[Goobian]

We should start our own rainbow mug club there is a guy on youtube that in his video he was drinking out of the rainbow mug like the one I have and I put in the comments hey I have the same one. He said the mug was in a flowers bouquet in the 80's (the bottom says copywright 1984) he bought one and then he found 2 on ebay he bought. He says nothing is like a good mug. WTF? It's just a regular mug. I just like it because of the rainbow! My favorite mug is from big lots for a dollar.

[Goobian]

I don't know. The filling part you probablly could but the bottom I don't know because it's supposed to all melt together.