Snickers salad

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Snickers salad
Dessert

A completed Snickers salad
Place of origin:
United States
Region or state:
Midwest
Serving temperature:
Cold
Main ingredient(s):
Snickers bars, Granny Smith apples, whipped topping
Recipes at Wikibooks:
 Snickers salad
Media at Wikimedia Commons:
  Snickers salad

Snickers salad is a mix of Snickers bars, Granny Smith apples, whipped cream and often pudding or whipped topping served in a bowl.[1][2] It is a potluck and party staple in some parts of the Midwest of the United States, where the "salad" is popular alongside glorified rice, Watergate salad, jello salad and hotdish. It is sometimes included in church cookbooks.[3]

Snickers salad is easy to make: the ingredients are simply chopped and combined.[4] As to whether it is a salad or a dessert, popular lore has it that it depends on which end of the table it is sitting.[3] Variations include the addition of grapes, sliced bananas, crushed pineapple, vanilla pudding, buttermilk, lemon juice, sour cream, cream cheese, marshmallow cream, and mayonnaise.[3] There are also sweet variations that include chocolate chips, candy sprinkles, chocolate or caramel sauce, peanuts, and crushed pretzels.[3]

The recipe for Snickers salad was included in a 2009 article "Salads worthy of a church picnic" in the Indianapolis Star. The author noted that "Despite what all my community and church cookbooks would say, I don't think anything with marshmallows can really be called a salad."[5]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Basheda, Lori (10 February 2007). "Pill makes game grow". The Orange County Register. Retrieved 28 January 2009. "Members routinely serve Snickers Salad, which has Cool Whip, marshmallows, cream cheese and chopped Snickers." 
  2. ↑ Melissa Barlow, Stephanie Ashcraft Things to Do with a Salad: One Hundred One Things to Do With a Salad Gibbs Smith, 2006 ISBN 1-4236-0013-4, ISBN 978-1-4236-0013-8 128 pages page 113
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Raetz Stuttgen, Joanne; Terese Allen (2007). Cafe Wisconsin Cookbook. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0-299-22274-8. 
  4. ↑ Prather, Diane (2 January 2009). "Macaroni-Beef Skillet Supper". Craig Daily Press. Retrieved 28 January 2009. "'Snicker Salad' calls for: 1 bag mini Snicker bars, 6 apples (cut into bite-size pieces), 1 large jar marshmallow cream, and a large container of whipped topping. Mix whipped topping and marshmallow cream together. Cut the Snickers into smaller pieces. Then add the pieces and cut apples to the topping mix. Mix together. Chill." 
  5. ↑ Salads worthy of a church picnic May 27, 2009 Indianapolis Star

References

  • Joanne Raetz Stuttgen and Terese Allen Cafe Wisconsin Cookbook Univ of Wisconsin Press, 2007 p. 72, 73 (Google preview)


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