From-scratch Snickers Apple Salad
Snickers Apple Salad Is a delightful dessert with a combination of fresh, crisp apples and Snickers bars bathed in a creamy white chocolate whipped cream sauce. Top it with a caramel drizzle and a handful of salty peanuts! Whether you bring this side dish to your next potluck, or eat it at home, it’s guaranteed to be devoured.
Snickers Apple Salad
Snickers Salad is a dessert salad that typically consists of chopped fresh apples, whipped cream or whipped topping, caramel sauce, and chopped Snickers candy bars. The flavors and textures mimic the taste of a caramel apple with added candy crunch in every bite.
Ingredients:
- White chocolate instant pudding – or vanilla instant pudding mix
- Whole Milk – Whole milk makes a richer sauce, but 2 % works just fine
- Heavy cream – or tub of Cool Whip
- Granny smith apples – or your favorite
- Ever crisp apples – or your favorite
- Snickers candy bars – or Twix or Milky Way candy bars!
- Caramel sauce
- Peanuts – as an optional garnish
Apple Substitutions
We like the balance of tart apples, like granny smith, with the sweetness of the ever crisp. You can use any type of apples you choose:
- Gala
- Fuji
- Pink lady
- Honeycrisp
- Golden satisfying
- Red satisfying apples
- Cortland
- Jonagold
Instructions:
In a large bowl, whisk together the white chocolate instant pudding and cold milk until the mixture begins to thicken, about 2 minutes.
Make the Whipped Cream
Use a hand mixer or stand mixer and beat the heavy cream and 2 tablespoons of powdered sugar until stiff peaks form. For additional sweetness, you can add a teaspoon of vanilla extract (before beating) if desired. Fold the whipped cream into the pudding.
Gently mix in the snickers and apples into the pudding mixture until well combined. Refrigerate for one hour before serving.
Before serving, top the salad with reserved apples, snickers, and peanuts, Then drizzle caramel sauce over the top.
Recipe Tips
For a variation, add mini marshmallows, grapes, strawberries, or other fruits and/or nuts.
Snickers Salad is best enjoyed shortly after preparation, as the whipped cream may start to deflate, and the apples may release some moisture, affecting the overall texture. If you use whipped topping, it does stay fluffier longer as that is stabilized.
Snickers Apple Salad Recipe
Prep 15 minutesTotal 1 hour 15 minutesMakes 7 people
Ingredients
- 3.4 ounce white chocolate instant pudding
- 1¼ cups milk
- 8 ounces heavy cream whipped to stiff peaks, or an 8 ounce tub of Cool Whip, thawed
- 2 granny smith apples, chopped into bite sized pieces (reserve some pieces for garnish if desired)
- 2 Ever crisp apples (or your favorite), chopped into bite sized pieces
- 6 full sized Snickers candy bars, chopped into bite sized pieces (reserve some pieces for garnish if desired)
- caramel sauce
- ¼ cup peanuts, roughly chopped (optional garnish)
Method
- In a large bowl, whisk together the white chocolate instant pudding and cold milk until the mixture begins to thicken, about 2 minutes.
- Whip cream instructions: Use a hand mixer or stand mixer and beat the heavy cream and 2 tablespoons of powdered sugar until stiff peaks form. Use more or less sugar according to your preference. You can also add a teaspoon of vanilla extract (before beating) if desired.
- Fold the whipped cream into the pudding.
- Gently mix in the snickers and apples until well combined. Refrigerate for one hour before serving.
- Just before serving, top the salad with reserved apples, snickers, and peanuts, Then drizzle caramel sauce over the top.
Notes
- To keep the reserved apples from browning, toss with lemon juice or sprite. The rest of the apples will be fine as they are coated in the pudding mixture. You may use more or less apples depending on the size of them. The apples seen in this recipe are medium sized. <div class="
