Lisa's Fruit Salad With Caramelized Pretzel Topping

Total Time: 15 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 5 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 3 cups pretzels, broken up into small pieces
• 4 tablespoons butter
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 2 (3 1/2 ounce) packages instant vanilla pudding
• 2 cups buttermilk
• 2 cups cool whip topping, thawed
• 8 ounces crushed pineapple, strained
• 2 (11 ounce) cans mandarin oranges, crushed & strained

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 450 degrees.
• 2 line a jelly roll pan with foil.
• 3 break up pretzels on pan.
• 4 melt butter in microwave, add brown sugar, stir together, and dump onto pretzels.
• 5 stir until well coated.
• 6 bake for 5 minutes.
• 7 cool and break apart pretzels.
• 8 for the fruit salad put into large bowl: mix pudding and buttermilk together.
• 9 fold in the whipped cream, crushed pineapple, and mandarin orange pulp.
• 10 cover top of salad with caramelized pretzel topping right before serving.