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So it’s Memorial Day and I’m home with my family. It feels great to not be traveling. God Bless all of our heroic Veterans for their incredible service to our country.

Why else do I love Memorial Day? Because it seems about everyone I know has a cook-out or picnic of some sort which means there will be some good eating going on! After I twittered that I would be making my pretzel salad for a cookout with our friends, I got an incredible amount of @replies asking for the recipe. So…. You asked. So here it is. I’ve also included the other thing I made which is yummy-for-your-tummy onion dip. Both recipes are courtesy of my sweet sister, Jennifer.  Happy cooking and happier eating :-)

Pretzel Jello Salad
2 c. crushed pretzel sticks
3/4 c. melted butter
3 tbsp. sugar
8 oz. cream cheese
1 c. sugar
8 oz. Cool Whip
1 (6 oz.) pkg. strawberry or raspberry Jello
2 c. boiling water
1 to 2 (10 oz.) pkgs. frozen strawberries or raspberries, partially thawed (depending on how much fruit you like)

Mix first three ingredients and press in bottom of a 9″x13″ pan. Bake at 350 degrees (metal pan) or 325 degrees (glass pan) 8 minutes. Let cool completely. Beat 1 cup sugar and cream cheese. Fold in Cool Whip. Spread over pretzels. Mix Jello and water until dissolved. Add fruit. Stir into Jello, then set aside for 10 minutes. Pour over cheese mixture. Chill.

Onion Dip
2 sweet onions, chopped
4 tbsp butter
1/4 c vegetable oil
1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepperSaute’ over medium heat for about 20 min, allowing onions to brown and completely soften
let cool.

stir the following:
4 oz cream cheese
1/2 c sour cream
1/2 c mayo

add onions to mixture and stir well. be sure the onions are completely cool before adding to cream mixture.
refrigerate.

May 25, 2009  •  No Comments  •  Posted in Blog, Love Revolution, Music, News, Travel
  • Noelle

    Awesome! I LOVE cooking! Thanks!

  • Kerri

    THANK YOU! I thought it sounded delicious when you mentioned it on Twitter, and now seeing the picture I feel like going to the store to buy the ingredients NOW. LOL (the onion dip sounds yummy too)

  • Chrissy

    My aunt makes the pretzel salad for every single family get together in the summer, and I LOVE it.

  • http://lori@metrochurhccalgary.org loriNeubauer

    Thanks for the recipes..will try them both..maybe today if Igo get the ingredients

  • amanda

    This is my FAVE summer recipe!! Can’t wait to try the onion dip. Thanks Nat!

  • JanMM

    Just hangin’ home today but, now it’ll be fun to say I got these recipes from Natalie Grant when I take them to the next picnic! Thanks so much for sharing, Natalie! Blessings from one of your Twitter friends who requested the recipe, JanMM ♥

  • WendyD

    I’m another of your Tweeps that requested you share this recipe… Turns out my mom used to make this ~ it’s SO very yummy! Thanks a bunch!

  • http://www.caringbridge.org/forhisglory Crystal Burchfield

    This is my fav! I hate to admit I passed it up my whole life, thinking it looked gross. But they say your taste buds change every 20 years..so, sometime in my 20′s, I had it at a reception. I got the recipe from my grandmother and made it the next week. YUMMY!
    The picture makes me want to get all three of my kiddos out the door to the store to buy pretzels! Just might do that!
    Oh, I finally posted my story on the “Our Hope Endures” page…I met you at Nashville Airport back in Feb. and told you how the Lord had healed me from a terminal illness and how much your song meant to me…you encouraged me to put it on the page and I finally did! Blessings to you! Love in Christ, Crystal Burchfield

  • April Roberts

    Thanks! I can’t wait to try these!

  • haley hudson

    hey natalie!
    i love to mess around in the kitche…so ill try it!it actually didnt sound so good when you said something bout it on twitter but it looks good:)
    and who doesnt like dips!?
    thanks
    <3Haley

  • Lori

    My mom has been making pretzel salad since I was a kid (grew up near Bethany Beach, DE). Then I introduced it to my husband’s family who live in MD, and now my mother-in-law makes it (had some of hers tonight!). I always thought it was a local recipe so I’ve been surprised to hear people around the U.S. make it too. Even co-host from ABC’s The View, Elisabeth Hassselbeck, said she makes it….Barbara Walter said it sounded gross…she needs to try it!

  • http://nataliegrant.com emily

    hey natalie have you heard of pineapple cassarole it tastes good

  • http://nataliegrant.com emily

    also there is chocolate truffle it also tastes good

  • Lyndsey

    It was delicious!! Thanks!!

  • Hollen

    YUMMMMM!!!!! LOL That looks REALLY good. I will have to try it sometime! LOLLOL Thanks for posting! Oh…if you get a chance…PLEASE COME TO ARIZONA! LOL I would love to come and hear you!
    Hollen

  • Mandy

    yuuuuuum! i want it! i just might try the recipe!
    i’m glad you got to go visit your family. :)

  • http://www.perkypaula.blogspot.com Paula L

    Just had this at a baby shower last weekend and they made it upside down -pretzels on top so they did not get soggy. Another friend suggested pretzel mixture on top and bottom. Hm-m-m! Any way you look at it – it is yummy!

  • Carrie Conklin

    Thanks Nat! Can’t wait to make it this weekend!! Miss you :)

  • Briggs

    I love Pretzel salad! My grandmother used to make it exactly the same way.

  • http://www.mydisgruntledlife.wordpress.com Amber

    Mmmmm, that looks tasty!

  • Destiny Kelsoe

    Hi Natalie,
    I am 12 and I love cooking and I made the pretzel jello salad and it was awsome and I was wondering if you have any more recipes because I want to grow up and be an around the world chef and if I dont become that I want to be a singer like you. But if you have any more recipes like these I would surely like to make them.
    Thanks

  • Rosanne

    This is amazing! I heard that you had this recipe on your site awhile back on Way FM. I finally had the chance to look it up. Someone, I can’t remember who, gave me this recipe YEARS ago and I lost it. I have been asking around for it for a long time. No one remembers giving it to me AND HERE IT IS—the ONE. And just in time, I have to bring the dessert at our women’s meeting next month!

    Thank you, thank you, thank you.

    God Bless, Rosanne

  • http://pamperingbeki.blogspot.com PamperingBeki

    Cream cheese and cream cheese? YES!!

  • Christina S.

    Mmm, looks really healthy. Your brother must be proud of a sister who looks after her health so well. ;) hehe

  • *RACH*

    looks good i might have to try it out sometime.

  • sher wikoff

    thanks for the strawberry pretzel recipe! i was given that recipe over 10 years ago and lost it. can’t wait to make it!!