Description
Sweet Midwestern “Snickers Caramel Apple Salad” blends creamy pudding with crisp apples and chopped candy bars. Creamy, crunchy dessert promises delightful textures and rich flavors you cannot resist.
Ingredients
Scale
Fruits:
- 4 Granny Smith apples, chopped (about 4 cups)
Candies and Nuts:
- 4 Snickers bars, chopped (about 1 ½ cups)
- ½ cup chopped peanuts (optional)
Dairy and Dry Ingredients:
- 1 package (100 grams / 3.4 ounces) instant vanilla pudding mix (dry)
- 1 container (250 grams / 8 ounces) whipped topping
- 1 cup milk
- ½ cup caramel sauce (plus extra for drizzling)
Instructions
- Craft a silky foundation by whisking instant vanilla pudding mix with milk until smooth, allowing it to slightly thicken for 2-3 minutes.
- Incorporate whipped topping into the pudding blend, creating a luxurious and airy texture that will coat the fruits and candy.
- Preserve the vibrant apple skin and slice fruit into uniform, bite-sized cubes to ensure consistent texture throughout the salad.
- Transform Snickers bars into petite morsels, creating delightful pockets of chocolate, caramel, and nougat within the creamy mixture.
- Tenderly integrate chopped apples and Snickers fragments into the pudding base, ensuring each morsel is evenly embraced by the creamy coating.
- Enhance the dessert’s decadence by cascading half of the caramel sauce throughout the mixture, creating ribbons of golden sweetness.
- Refrigerate the salad for a minimum of 30 minutes, allowing flavors to harmonize and the dessert to develop a chilled, cohesive character.
- Just before serving, elegantly drizzle remaining caramel sauce across the top, creating an enticing visual and flavor finale.
Notes
- Choose crisp, sweet-tart apples like Honeycrisp or Granny Smith for the best texture and flavor contrast in the salad.
- Freeze Snickers bars for 10-15 minutes before chopping to make cutting cleaner and prevent them from crumbling.
- Keep the salad chilled until serving to maintain the whipped topping’s fluffy consistency and prevent apples from browning.
- For a lighter version, swap whole milk with almond milk and use low-fat whipped topping to reduce calories without sacrificing taste.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
- Category: Desserts, Snacks
- Method: Blending
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 12
- Calories: 280
- Sugar: 28 g
- Sodium: 150 mg
- Fat: 13 g
- Saturated Fat: 5 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 7 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 37 g
- Fiber: 2 g
- Protein: 4 g
- Cholesterol: 10 mg