If you haven’t had Snickers Apple Salad, then you are really missing out. It is part fruit salad and part sweet side dish that is a great way to celebrate apple season.
The holidays are the perfect time to try fun recipes like this easy creamy dessert salad, 6-ingredient Snickers dessert salad recipe, made from candy bars and apples!
Easy Snicker Apple Salad
This is one of my favorite recipes to make year round, but especially in the fall and through the holiday season, Snicker apple salad is always a treat!
With simple pantry ingredients, and very minimal preparation, you will have a dessert that disappears quickly! This reminds me of the classic sweet salads like Watergate Salad, Ambrosia Salad, Grape Salad, Banana Pudding and Candy Bar Salad. It will instantly transport you to family gatherings or the church potluck!
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Apple Snicker Salad Ingredients
- 1 small box (3.4 oz) butterscotch pudding or you can also use vanilla instant pudding mix
- ½ cup of milk
- 1 container (8 oz) whipped topping, thawed (like Cool Whip or you can make your own whipped cream)
- 4 large green apples, Granny Smith is best, chopped (tart apples are the best apples to use, but you can use red apples)
- 5 full size Snickers candy bars, 4 for salad + 1 for garnishing
- (optional) Homemade or store bought caramel if you want to make it Snickers Caramel Apple Salad…yum!
The Best Apples to Use
Tart apples are the best apples to use, but you can use red apples.
How to Make Snickers Salad
This recipe is the easiest! Aside from cutting the candy bars (which can be a little difficult, and is definitely an adult job) this recipe is very kid-friendly, with simple ingredient combining and stirring.
Kids will live their best life when they see that green apples and snickers = a salad recipe!
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the instant pudding and milk, until smooth.
- Place in refrigerator to set, about 10 minutes.
- While pudding is chilling, cut fresh apples into a large bowl.
- Remove pudding from refrigerator and fold in whipped topping.
- Chop candy bars.
- Fold apple and candy bars into mixture until well combined.
- Cover and chill for at least 1 hour before serving.
- (Optional) Drizzle caramel sauce over the Snickers Salad before serving.
how to serve snicker apple salad
I love to serve snicker apple salad in a brightly colored bowl like orange, yellow or a bright green because the salad can appear brown on the table. We love to serve snicker salad as an unexpected side dish to almost any meal! Oh, and the leftovers often become an in between meal snack!
snickers apple salad storage
Store your leftover apple salad in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 3 days.
snicker salad’s other names
Snickers salad is also known by candy bar salad, taffy apple salad, caramel apple salad or Snickers caramel apple salad.
Snickers Salad recipe FAQs
How Long Will Snickers Salad Last?
Store before serving in airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 24 hours. Any leftovers can be placed back into the fridge for a few days (if they last that long) until the apple pieces lose their crispness.
Can Snickers Salad be Made Ahead of Time?
Snickers Salad can be made up to 24 hours in advance and stored in an airtight container in the fridge until ready to serve.
How to Keep Apples from Browning
There are several solutions to keeping apples from turning brown by applying or soaking in an acidic solution. Growing up, we always used lemon juice. You can add lemon juice to water and then soak the apple slices in the lemon juice for about 5 minutes before storing in an airtight container. I have also used a shaker of Fruit-Fresh which contains ascorbic acid also called Vitamin C among other ingredients that help prevent oxidation. You can also use salt, vinegar or light colored sodas.
Can Snicker Apple Salad be Frozen?
Theoretically, yes apple snickers salad can be frozen, but it is not best practice for a fresh taste. I don’t recommend freezing ahead of time, but saving leftovers is something that could be done!
Snicker Salad Recipe Variations & Substitutions
You can swap the Snickers bars out for any candy bar of your preference!
Check out your Halloween candy supply and choose wisely!
Is Snickers Apple Salad Gluten Free?
Yes! Snickers bars are gluten free (woohoo!).
Just be cautious about the caramel sauce that you use, and read all labels on all other processed ingredients, to be sure.
Vegan apple Snicker Salad
The original candy bar apple salad recipe is already vegetarian, but if you are looking for a vegan option, traditional Snickers bars are not vegan, unfortunately.
Here are the steps to making this recipe vegan:
- The good news is that it’s really easy to make DIY vegan Snickers bars with an Internet search, Medjool dates, unsalted peanuts, peanut butter, plant based milk, vanilla extract, Enjoy Life dairy free (and vegan) chocolate chips, and coconut oil!
- You can also swap out Snickers bars for store-bought vegan candy bars, or vegan candy, like Unreal brand peanut butter cups–the dark chocolate peanut butter cups are amazeballs!
- Then, just make your own vegan caramel sauce, buy vanilla almond milk pudding, and dairy-free whipped topping.
Yield: Serves 10-12
Snickers salad is the perfect side dish to wow family and friends at gatherings. Kids love it, too!
Prep Time5 minutes
Cook Time1 hour
Total Time1 hour 5 minutes
Ingredients
- 1 small box (3.4 oz) butterscotch pudding ** see notes
- ½ cup milk
- 1 container (8 oz) whipped topping, thawed
- 4 large green apples, Granny Smith is best, chopped
- 5 full size Snickers candy bars, 4 for salad + 1 for garnishing
- Homemade or store bought caramel, optional
Instructions
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the pudding and milk until smooth.
- Place in refrigerator to set, about 10 minutes.
- While pudding is chilling, cut apples.
- Remove pudding from refrigerator and fold in whipped topping.
- Chop candy bars.
- Fold apple and candy bars into mixture until well combined.
- Cover and chill for at least 1 hour before serving.
- Store leftovers in airtight container in refrigerator for up to 24 hours.
Notes
Pudding: you can also use vanilla pudding mix.
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- Let’s make simple dessert pizza.
- Dutch oven peach cobbler is a family favorite dessert at our house.
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- Oh so many easy dessert recipes!
Easy Side Dishes & Quirky Dishes
- One of my very favorite green salad recipes is Kale salad with lemon juice dressing – super easy & super yummy.
- In the summer I love a good potato salad, in the winter this 3 ingredient potato soup!
- If you are looking for a healthy salad, try this delicious avocado salad recipe.
- And one of my favorite recipes of all time is our macaroni salad recipe!
- If it is not fall season and you can’t get the right kind of apples, try another fruit… check out these watermelon recipes that have some quirky salad ideas that remind me a little bit of this delicious snickers salad!
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Have you ever had Snickers Salad before? What did you think of the dessert salad?
