Snickers Salad is a sweet salad made with Granny Smith apples, mini marshmallows, and Snickers candy bars, mixed in with vanilla pudding and whipped cream. I love Snickers candy bars so much, I even have a homemade Snickers you might want to try!
Snickers Salad
Okay, you may read that title and think it is a total oxymoron. I mean, a candy bar salad? Those two concepts don’t seem to go together. However, I am here to tell you that in this case, they go together perfectly. I think the definition of a salad should be updated to include candy bars, right? And, dessert salads are great for potlucks or any sort of gathering.
Salad Ingredients & Substitutions
Apples: Look for Granny Smith apples for their tartness. Or, you could use your favorite kind of apples; the Snickers salad will still be delicious! There is no need to peel the apples unless you want to.
Milk: I like whole milk for more creaminess in the salad. However, you could use 2% or 1% if that is all you have on hand.
Pudding: Use instant vanilla pudding mix, not cook and serve. If preferred, you could try a different flavor of instant pudding mixes, like butterscotch or chocolate.
Whipped Topping: Look for an 8-ounce tub of cool whip, thawed, or make your own homemade whipped topping!
Snickers: Chop up some fun-sized Snickers candy bars. If you can’t find a 10.59-ounce bag of fun-sized candy bars, you will need about 6 full-sized Snickers bars to chop.
Marshmallows: Use 2 cups of mini marshmallows, or chop up larger marshmallows to add to the salad.
Variations to Snickers Salad
There are a few ways you can make this Snickers Salad just the way you like it. Here are some ideas:
- As I stated above, you could try a different flavor of pudding.
- Drizzle chocolate syrup or caramel sauce on top. (After all, the more chocolate and caramel you can add, the better!)
- Use different kinds of candy bars like Milky Way or Baby Ruth. Or, use a combination of candy bars.
- Add nuts (more peanuts, anyone?), chocolate chips, pretzels, or even grapes.
How to Store
This salad will last in the refrigerator in an airtight container for 3-4 days. That is if you don’t start eating it😉. Unfortunately, it will not freeze well. So, make sure you can enjoy it or share it within a few days.
Homestead Recipes Cookbook
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Snickers Salad
Ingredients
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 6 large Granny Smith apples, cored and cubed (about 8 cups cubed)
- 1½ cups whole milk
- 1 package (3.4 ounces) instant vanilla pudding mix
- 8 ounces whipped topping
- 1 bag (10.59 ounces) Snickers fun-size candy bars, roughly chopped
- 2 cups (100 g) mini marshmallows
Instructions
- Fill a large bowl about halfway with water. Add salt. Place the cubed apples into the salted water while you prepare the pudding mixture. This will keep the apples from browning.
- In another large bowl, whisk the milk and pudding mix until thickened, about 2 minutes. Let it sit for 2 minutes, or until softly set. Gently fold in the whipped topping until smooth.
- Drain the apples. Fold the apples, candy bar pieces, and marshmallows into the pudding mixture. Transfer to the refrigerator to chill until serving.
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This recipe intrigued me! I’m going to make it with the Snickers and one with Three Musketeers ( nut allergy grandson). Thanks for sharing another recipe!
I AM A DIABETIC BUT I PROMISE YOU I am going to make this , my mouth is already watering , thank you for these recepies , love them
Elyse, are you for real? This is a special occasion salad for holidays etc. A potluck salad to share. People tend to eat this for dessert. This is not something people eat everyday, once a week or even monthly. Your rant was totally ridiculous and over the top. You are now known as the iambakers crazy salad lady.
how long does this pudding salad to to be chilled? Thank you
This is what is says in the post:
“How to Store
This salad will last in the refrigerator in an airtight container for 3-4 days. That is if you don’t start eating it😉. Unfortunately, it will not freeze well. So, make sure you can enjoy it or share it within a few days.”
Woman, you are making me crave everything you are posting!!! Love it! Thanks for all you do!
In a day & age of mass obesity, diabetics & poor choices & preparing- all 100% fueling diseases our grandparents had & now, thanks to stupid eating and sugar even young children or 20- something’s are getting old people’s diseases or dying. HELLO! Or do you not give a darn?!
Shame on you for suggesting & promoting high sugar, high fat, high cholesterol, & any high or * bad carbs – even in what should be healthy…a salad!
Even salads- you managed to murder with junk foods, sugar, h.f.c.s., chemicals, additives …sad.
Putting only calorie info does nothing but show how you don’t care or mislead people as calories alone are not killing people today…it’s the
white sugar, white (bad) carbs, empty calories(sugar) poor fats
and chemicals ….that ARE what marshmallows & candy bars are made of
For the love of humanity, go take or pick up a nutrition book or give a darn as you are influencing just more willing & unhealthy disadvantaged sickly people.
You and recipes like this do not promote any good health, happiness or any chance of healing guts or depression…plaguing Americans as much as duet driven diabetes, heart disease and hypertension!
BTW – I work with sick, poorly aging addicts & diabetics to help them clean up their diets and eat right so the body and mind is empowered, any child can follow – if mama isn’t buying and cooking junk- so I know what I speak of
Disgusted & disappointed
Please- you can & should do better!
Fact:
The southern belt of the U.S. is the highest per Capita of obesity, diabetics, heart patients and early avoidable deaths but we have too many foody fools influencing fattening & dumbing down of Americans (often these cooks also are diabetics, sugar & food addicts like Ms.Paula Dean) sabotaging good health or aging by spreading more sugary-stupidity & addiction promoting or satisfying recipes that are missing the mark
That above recipe is NOT a salad- & not healthy. I had the displeasure of biting into it today at a potluck. Not good. Just healthy apes and fiber ruined with sugar, bad fats, not even healthy dark chocolate
Yuck
‘m sorry
A huge thumbs down to you and the retired nurse (who’s hubby has diabetes) that just brought this sabotaging food, I call out as a foul, to a potluck today at church.
I voiced same outrage to my pastor & the fat, diabetic, unhealthy aging congregation of either ignorant or sabotaging people as WE can & should do better
I suggest you do the same
Even Mrs Southern cooking herself, Paula Dean, who slathers on the sugar, butter, flour to many yummy but outdated unhealthy recipes HAD to change recipes( flour, salt, more butter n sugar in everything recipes) after her own southern
self-homemade DIABETES
She had to own up to her part sabotaging hers and others health- just poorly influencing ignorants.
She had to change her recipes to stop this madness & promoting poor health outcomes just to save face and more shame in her own following
So shame on you! You need to do better-period
You seem like a sad person who wants everyone to be miserable around them. I feel sorry for your pastor and the congregation that you look down your nose at. I’m not the one who needs to ‘do better’, Elyse.
I bet she’s a blast at a party! This is one of my favorite summer guilty pleasures.
I have not tried this. It really does not appeal to me.. That being said , I love 99% of. your recipes!
Elyse obvious is overly judge -mental with way too much time on her hands.
I am 73, love to bake am overweight and quite healthy! I take no meds…None! My cholesterol is perfect, my blood pressure is 120-127/70-75! I eat dessert every night! Most diseases are hereditary.
I am very active and swim for one hour every day.
You Go Amanda!!
Elyse, no one looking at the recipe or anything loaded with fluffy pudding& marshmallows thinks ‘healthy’ it’s clearly a treat, a dessert, an indulgence but in the south & Midwest any dish served chilled is often referred to as a ‘salad’ albeit often tongue in cheek. Get a sense of humor & take your condescending attitude & soapbox elsewhere, you miserable Troll. UGH!
Amen Amanda! Good response. Only hurt-filled people hurt others. They condemn others because they feel condemnation themselves.
You keep doing you. Allow others to make their own choices. They’ll either try your recipes or they won’t. That’s one of the great things about America.
I was thinking I feel bad for her church members. She is just attacking anything as I’m sure she attacks herself as much. Really when someone is trying to really help people they don’t attack like this as it’s way beyond the pale. I would block her…I’m sure that is something a lot of folks have done. Her church unfortunately has to listen. Maybe the pastor could give her counseling. He/she really needs to.
But at least the apes are healthy! Keep up what you do, and we will take responsibility for ourselves.
Why are you so miserable? Please name ONE PLACE where Baker states she’s a ‘healthy’ recipe blogger? Eaten in MODERATION, it’s not going to kill you. You’re a ridiculous and nasty person! Elyse, do better, you’re an embarrassment to mature and thoughtful people everywhere!
No one is forcing anyone to make this. No one is forcing anyone to eat it. I recommend you take a breath and go outside or something. Clearly you’re going through something but it has nothing to do with Amanda.
Amanda, I’ve had this salad many times and it is great. Thank you for sharing!
Hey, Elyse, you do realize nobody is putting a gun to anyone’s head to either make this or eat it. Take a chill pill, and maybe unsubscribe or, I don’t know, scroll past the recipes. How did you even find such a horrible, diabolical site anyway? Put a sock in it already.
Nobody is touting this as a typical, leafy green, vegetable salad! Apparently you live under a rock, because there is an entire food category commonly referred to as dessert salads. And Midwesterners especially will label damn near anything a salad (dessert or not). Climb down off your self-righteous high horse & move along. ANYTHING is bad for you if you over indulge (*gasp* even water), but a small portion of this isn’t going to kill anyone. And I absolutely call bullsh*t on you actually having the guts to rant directly to the pastor & congregation (give me a break) about their dietary habits. If you don’t like something- don’t make/eat it. But none of us here asked for your whiny, unsolicited opinion.
Agree 100%
Elyse,
During your very condescending, self-righteous rant, you see to have forgotten a few things! (1) NO ONE forces anyone to eat this or anything else. (2) NO ONE thinks of this recipe or any other recipe on this blog as health food, get a grip! (3) the problem with this world is not this recipe or any other recipe, it is the over consumption of ANY food…people need to learn self-control! It is called all things in MODERATION! (4) I bet you are a real fun fellow congregant (5) You should come down off of your pedestal and STOP JUDGING others or you just might choke on your wheat germ…
Hope your pastor told you to work on this judgmental behavior to become a better person. There is more to being a good person as to always eat healthy and for sure not lecture others about it. Just because some people don’t have any self control others shouldn’t be harassed for creating or trying fun recipes. Nobody needs to eat this kind of food daily or in larger portions.
Wow! Elyse you sound angry. Do you not learn anything at your church about being a good and kind person? Or maybe you’re just angry from not allowing yourself to try any of these deliciously “sinful”recipes that Amanda gives us? Either way, I think you better go eat a big fat salad so you won’t be so darn cranky😠
Elyse,
What a misdirected and angry response attacking a person sharing a recipe that’s been around for years. No one is forcing anyone to make or eat these recipes and this is not a diet or low calorie site.
I love making the occasional dessert or sweet recipe but otherwise eat fairly healthy as most people do. I often substitute for healthier options as well.
Please get help for your anger issues.
Wow, Elyse. No one is forcing you (or anyone else for that matter) to make, eat, or even read this recipe or any other from this fun lady. There is such a thing as moderation. She has amazingly yummy recipes. If you want low fat, low sugar, low carb, gluten free, etc. maybe you should look elsewhere. I suggest you just don’t read her recipes. It’s unfortunate that you are such a miserable person who seems to want to make everyone else miserable and conform to your way of thinking.
Dear Elyse,
It’s wonderful you spend your life caring for those who struggle with addiction and diabetes. I do hope you don’t speak to them in the way you have spoken to Amanda here. She did not cause your patients to make their choices. She did not force feed them this salad nor get them addicted to drugs or alcohol. She certainly did not bring the bowl of salad to your potluck. (Though if she had we all would have rejoiced.) People have been making and sharing this salad now for decades. It’s yummy. We know you are trying to save the world, but people are going to die anyway. Most of us like to include a little joy in our lives. It’s okay if you don’t. We’ll eat an extra scoop on your behalf.
OMG stay in your own lane.
Who are you to tell anyone what they should and should not eat?
Next time skip the recipe instead of making a judgement call for everyone else.
Wow ! You definitely are one disturbed human being, and apparently looks for the worst in people and things. Are you kicked out of your church yet, but not only is that rude but very disrespectful to your pastor and the congregation! I think you need sone kind of therapy to get over your anger over food and life ! I think you should unfollow all recipes and do your own thing !!!
This reads like a poor attempt at satire written by a 3rd grader who heard some buzz words they don’t understand. I am so very confused. This is a joke, right? I mean you didn’t actually accost your pastor over a dish someone brought to a pot luck, right? I’m pretty sure policing dishes at a potluck falls outside his call of shepharding the flock. You are not actually in the business of helping people make nutritional choices, right? Every credentialed nutritionist that I know and trust encourages nutrient dense choices a majority of the time and makes allowances for indulgences. They also have never addressed someone’s health with a fire and brimstone approach and shamed them. Maybe I’ve just had the pleasure of encountering more quality people because I find it hard to believe this indictment was written with any sincerity due to the absolute lack of coherent words or logic. Perhaps we need to approach your pastor and ask him to do better as it is surely on his shoulders that you are walking around spewing this nonsense. A visit with your 3rd grade teacher may also be warranted as she/he clearly failed to teach you to complete a thought before rambling on to the next. I kinda think that maybe you just need to do better though. Surely whatever talents you may possess would be better expressed elsewhere, and you should learn to check your impulses.
You realize, being such a devote follower of a no taste taste, no happiness lifestyle, that not everybody wants that, right? It’s all about personal choice. You, obviously being the MOST DEVOUT follower of all things fiber and God, have every right to choose a pile of twigs over this salad every day of the week and twice on Sunday without the fear of someone bullying and rificuling you about your choice, but your average Joe blow doesn’t get that same right? Well, at least not in your eyes. You, the self-appointed teacher of “All things healthy” and “Do Better”, have taken up the mantle of browbeating and bullying every single person who eats a diet different than yours. Good job on letting your pastor know that his flock is filled with sinners who happens to eat refined white sugar and gas, carbs. He surely has nothing better to worry about and he definitely, probably, or might, not, call on all of his parishioners to forsake all types of food that you, Eylse, personally consider “bad”. Maybe you should write up a list of foods people can eat so they can become just as miserable and “holier than thou” as you are. Of course, they’ll never be quite as righteous as you are, but we all know you’re secretly ok with that because who would you put down to make yourself feel superior if they all dropped their Hamburgers and snickers apple salad immediately upon your edicts? I’m sure the people who come to you for help were hoping for a little compassion. I’m positive that those same people weren’t given any, and most, if not all, failed in their attempts to get healthy. Oh, it’s not all your fault from that. I mean, it’s been proven that sugar is as addictive as any drug, and after a lifetime of eating one way, it’s hard to make a change and lots of people don’t have the willpower to cut “bad” foods from their lives. So, yeah, those people who pay you to help them , have to take accountability for their actions, but enter you. You think that belittling, broweating, gaslighting, bullying, and gulting people into changing is the way to do it. Frankly, I feel sorry for your patients. I feel sorry for your church. I feel sorry for your family. But mostly, I feel sorry for you. It takes a very sad, and probably lonely, to attack a person and her business because she writes recipes not sanctioned by yourself.
So, Elyse, you not only judge people who kindly share recipes on the internet but also share your judgement at church? Cool, cool.
It’s frightening that people like you can breed! You don’t have to make it or eat it. I would think you would learn something if you go to church but obviously you truly don’t know what living a godly life is about. You are a horrible person!
Wait, you brought this up to your pastor and entire congregation? As in you… you talk like this in real life? Amazing
Elyse,
What on earth gives you the right to come and be miserable and hateful on someone else’s blog? Are you even a human or are you a bot? Because your rant doesn’t even make sense! No one is holding a gun to your head to eat this food! Everyone has free will, and the right to make their own choices, and people with an ounce of sense and a basic understanding of nutrition will understand that sweets and other less healthy foods are for treats and special occasions, not for every day eating. What kind of foolishness are you throwing around the inter-webs? Stop food shaming people who earn their living by creating free content for others consumption and putting themselves in the way of food shaming individuals like you who try to make them feel bad for creating recipes that thousands of other people enjoy and eat in moderation as all good things should be. I hope you enjoy your life living on hard tack and swill, you bitter human.
My goodness do you ever need a Snickers bar! I suspect most humans are aware sugar etc are not good for you, but we all get to make our own choices! Which means we get to share recipes freely. Another fine example of if you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all!!!!!
There’s so many layers that need to be addressed here.
You speak about doing better, and yet you call others fat, you’re judging so many people and you’re being completely disrespectful and rude in your response.
You had the “displeasure of tasting this at a potluck” – this seems hypocritical – you can see that there’s chocolate and such, so why would you try it? All of the chemicals that you knowingly ingested 😲🫣 The absolute horror!
I pity those that you work with – I can just imagine how you address them. Very sad, indeed.
You speak about “doing better”. Maybe you should take your own advice! If you don’t have anything kind to say, then you don’t say anything at all. Or did your mother not teach you that?
I can’t imagine being so absolutely rude to someone because they posted a RECIPE!?! Who does that? She is not responsible for the world and their decisions 🙄
Do better.
Wow Elyse! You really attacked your pastor and the lady who was nice enough to bring something delicious to a potluck? At church? You are definitely a very hateful person. No one has to make the recipe or eat the recipe. And moderation is key. Just…wow…
Elyse, sounds like you need every Snickers in this salad. Get a grip! Moderation not deprivation is key. No one is saying eat the whole bowl. Please do better in being a decent human being. I feel terrible for the people you work with seeing as you are so judgmental.
Hmmm, big difference between passion and just sad bitchiness. For a god fearing person, you sure are judgemental. (I don’t worry about that bc I don’t believe in a Sky Daddy.)
If you are an adult educator, as I am, then you are doing it wrong. Look up andragogy and Malcolm Knowles. I would hate to be yelled at by you in class. Your participants probably ignore you more than listen.
Lady, I say this with NO RESPECT. Please shut up. You sound absolutely annoying and ridiculous
For someone who claims to be a church goer, you sure exude hate and vitriol. My goodness woman, you obviously have no idea what her site is all about. It is NOT a healthy meal website. It is a site for amazing, calorie filled comfort foods. And we LOVE IT! You need to seriously check yourself and possibly go speak with someone about your inner raging. But please not your pastor or congregation. Those poor people.
You need help … get a hobby .
Disgusted & disappointed? You should be looking in a mirror when you say that. Shaming a woman and her spouse at a church pot luck because of her contribution?? Then continuing to shame here. Be kind, be gracious, and be thankful for your ability to help others. But change your delivery, because nobody is listening to Elyse when she rambles on like a lunatic.
What the actual heck? Do you not believe people have the intelligence and capability to decide for themselves what and how much to put in their own bodies? Sweet goodness. If you don’t like this page, don’t read it. Why do keyboard warriors think it is okay to behave this way. It’s getting old.
Wow calm down. It’s a treat, not a lifestyle.
You bit into this at a potluck? Did you mistake it for Kale? All of the ingredients you listed as causing the downfall of humanity and this still made it onto your spoon and into your gob. Alrighty then. LOL
Elyse your mental health is completely out of balance. Seek help.
I didnt even bother to read all that. I saw enough to come to the conclusion that you are an awful person Elyse, who needs a serious hobby. If anyone is disgusting, it’s you. Be an adult who contributes something good to the world.
You sound like a miserable person. Also, why is it I am Bakers fault if someone eats this all day instead of veggies??? We all have a choice of what we put in our bodies PERIOD!! If you don’t like it don’t follow for her recipes. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. Oh and btw it’s ignorance… Not ignorants. You sound like the ignorant one.
Elyse, suck it. Go clutch your pearls elsewhere, you hypocrite. Do BETTER!!
Your diet doesn’t seem to be helping your anger issues. And your anger issues are certainly not helping YOUR health. You could have easily shared your opinion about eating less sugar and processed food without a novella of shouting and condescension and hate. If there’s ever a reason to make this dessert (which obviously no one thinks of as a salad in the vegetable and greens sense) it’s a church potluck where people only share a spoonful. I pray you were more calm, respectful and charitable in speaking with your pastor than you were to Amanda (IAmBaker). If you want to be taken seriously, stop yelling at people.
It’s time to look inward Elyse. Time to look inward, as there seems to be a lot of hate and anger emanating outward. That comes from somewhere. This can’t be disguised as being concerned about other people. Seek help.
Elyse, you need to get off your high horse and seek some professional help because you don’t have very good coping strategies.
This is a recipe page for goodness sakes. Do you go on a rampage if you see a cake with frosting on it in the grocery store? I sincerely hope not. An acceptable response would be to move on realizing that you’re not being forced to buy it.
Sooooo….Elyse needs an enema.