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    Home » Easy Recipes » Baked Items

    Blueberry Salad (I'd call it dessert!)

    Published: Aug 18, 2015 · Modified: Jan 18, 2023 by Susan Moncrieff · This post may contain affiliate links · 7 Comments

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    Blueberry Salad, a fun modification of raspberry salad

    Last fall, my family had dinner at a favorite place in northern Wisconsin.  I love going to that place.  You kind of feel like you are going to grandma's.   Complete with deviled eggs, in Tupperware.

    This dinner had a set menu.  The salad, was described as a Raspberry Salad.  This is a picture of it.  I guess it's a salad because it is served on a lettuce leaf?  We thought it was so funny!  But, it looked and tasted great!

    blueberry salad / dessert

    Let me tell you, my two teen boys really liked this salad!   I think if I served salad that looked like this, my kids would eat salad all the time!!  Crazy, isn't it?   I asked our server how it was made and she pretty much told me the recipe.

    I was going to share this raspberry salad recipe with you, but, Costco failed me! {GASP}.  They had no raspberries!  But, they had lots of blueberries.  And the blueberries looked so good.  So, here you go.  blueberry salad (he, he).  Northern Wisconsin style!

    a dessert with a layer of blueberries in gelatin over a whipped cream layer and then the bottom crushed pretzel layer

    Making this easy blueberry salad

    It's actually a simple recipe.    You start this blueberry salad with a pretzel crust.  Yum!

    blueberry pretzel salad

    Mix together a whipped cream and cream cheese mixture and spread on the pretzel crust.  After the pretzel crust has cooled, of course.

    Blueberry pretzel salad

    Add blueberries and cooled mixed berry jello.Blueberry pretzel salad

    Warning!!  Make sure the jello is well cooled.  Picture in your mind what happens when you pour very warm (ok, maybe hot) jello on the whipped cream/cream cheese mixture.  {sigh}  My youngest son and their friends are always happy to eat up any recipes that are not, in my judgment, Pinterest worthy.   This second attempt was much better, but, I think I probably could have cooled the jello just a little more.

    Blueberry salad.  An easy, light tasting and refreshing dessert!

    Detailed printable directions below!

    Blueberry Salad (I’d call it dessert!)

    A fun and delicious twist on strawberry pretzel salad.  So delicious with blueberries instead of strawberries!
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    Author: Susan Moncrieff

    Ingredients

    • 2 cups crushed pretzels
    • ¾ cups butter melted
    • 3 TBLS sugar
    • 8 oz Neufchatel cheese light a cream cheese
    • 1 large package Mixed Berry Jello about 6 oz and it's blue
    • ¾ cup sugar
    • 2 ½ cups water
    • 16 oz fresh blueberries

    For the whipped cream

    • 2 cups heavy cream
    • 4 tablespoon confectioner's super icing sugar
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla

    Instructions

    • Preheat oven to 350 degrees
    • For best whipped cream results, your bowl and beaters should be very cold. Place in freezer or fridge for a few minutes.
    • Crush pretzels and mix in melted butter and 3 TBLS sugar.
    • In a 9x13 baking dish, spread evenly and press down the crushed pretzel mixture.
    • Bake 8 minutes, remove from oven and let cool.
    • Make whipped cream by adding all whipped cream ingredients and whipping until it is at the soft peak stage.
    • (optional - retain some whipped cream for garnish - ¼ cup)
    • Add the 8oz Neufachel cream which has been cut into small pieces. Cut into small pieces so you don't have to over whip the whipped cream when you are combining the ingredients.
    • Mix in the ¾ cup sugar into the whipped cream cheese/whipped cream mixture.
    • Spread the whipped cream & Neufchatel cheese mixture on the cooled crackers.
    • Bring 2 ½ cups water to boil. Dissolve Jello in water.
    • Place in refrigerator and watch for the jello to partially set. You are looking for it to be cool and a thick liquid.
    • Place blueberries on the whipped cream/Neufchatel layer. They won't totally cover, you just want them to be evenly spaced.
    • Gently pour cooled, barely liquid jello on this layer.
    • Refrigerate until firm and set.
    • Optional garnish is some leftover whipped cream, blueberries and a pretzel.

    Notes

    Modified recipe from Mom on timeout

    Shhhhhh, here's a big shortcut.  If you don't want to make whipped cream, use Cool Whip.  No one needs to know!

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    1. Leslie

      June 03, 2018 at 6:59 pm

      I was introduced to this by a pineapple filling, instead of strawberry/raspberry/blueberry filling. I've had the strawberry one, but still favor the pineapple one. I imagine the others are just as tasty.

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      • momcrieff

        July 15, 2018 at 10:03 pm

        I have never tried this with pineapple filling. That sounds so good and I'll have to try it soon! Thanks for sharing.

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    2. erikaaldrich

      August 20, 2017 at 1:00 pm

      we are going to make this because it looks yummy!

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    3. Debbie

      September 03, 2016 at 10:04 am

      When do you add the 3/4 cup sugar. I'm thinking to the cream cheese mixture.

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    4. pestep81

      August 19, 2015 at 6:38 am

      We have been making this dish in SW PA for years but.... it's called strawberry pretzel salad. I can't believe it never occurred to me to use different fruit! The blueberries look delicious and now I'm thinking red white and blue? Maybe for labor day. Thanks for the inspiration!

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      • momcrieff

        August 20, 2015 at 9:13 am

        I still think it's funny that it's called a 'salad'.
        Enjoy the rest of your summer!! Labor Day is coming up quick!

        Reply
    5. MӨƧ

      August 19, 2015 at 4:50 am

      ok this looks absolutely delish.. pinning and sharing. 🙂

      Reply

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