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Caramel Apple Salad is a fluffy, creamy, subtly caramel flavored salad that is filled with tart Granny Smith Apples and Milky Way candy bars. The whole salad is drizzled with caramel sauce to finish it off. This classic salad is perfect for potlucks, holidays, family parties, or fall.
Caramel Apple Salad is the best Dessert Salad
Dessert salads, they are a thing. Did you know that? Even better than that, they are TO. DIE. FOR.
I mean, I am always down to eat something that is considered a salad, yet tastes like you are eating dessert. Plus, you can totally get away with serving this as a salad (it is even in it’s name!) to go along with dinner.
Then you get to have dessert after since, ya know, you were eating a salad. ?
Plus there are loads of apples in the salad, so fruit?.. check. Is fruit healthy? Yes, therefore so is this salad?
My view might be a little skewed, but I give you full permission to go crazy with this salad. #yourewelcome
Making the Caramel Apple Salad
To make this salad you’ll only need 6 ingredients! This salad comes together very quickly too, which is always nice. I always seem to be running out of time with everything I do.
First, cream cheese and brown sugar are whipped together in a stand mixer or using electric beaters. Give this combo a little taste, tastes just like caramel!!
Then Cool Whip is folded into the cream cheese mixture. I say folded, but I’ve tossed it into the stand mixer and turned it on slowly to combine before too, still turns out great.
Now, all that needs to be done is a lot of chopping. Roughly chop the apples to start. I like to use Granny Smith apples because they are crisp and TART! The tartness of the apple really pairs well with the sweetness of the Cool Whip.
I love the addition of a candy bar in this salad. The candy bar can really be any that you’d like, I like Milky Ways though.
You could definitely use Snickers, Twix, or even Rolos would be fun! The key is to get some chocolate and some caramel in the candy bar.
Milky Way just happens to be my favorite candy bar (you know, my birthday is in a few months… ?) so that is what I went with in this salad.
After the candy bar of choice is chopped up into small pieces, it’s time to toss everything together!
After the apples and candy bar have been covered with the dreamy cool whip mixture, it is time to get your caramel on!
I put a few tbsp of caramel into a plastic baggie, snip the corner and then use that to drizzle the caramel with. You can opt to just put the caramel on top as a garnish, or you can put it throughout.
If you want it throughout, place a small amount of salad into the serving and drizzle the caramel on top. place a little more salad into the serving bowl and then drizzle the caramel again. Repeat until all of the salad is in the serving bowl.
Caramel Apple Salad
(Printable Recipe Below)
Caramel Apple Salad is a fluffy, creamy, subtly caramel flavored salad that is filled with tart Granny Smith Apples and Milky Way candy bars. The whole salad is drizzled with caramel sauce to finish it off. This classic salad is perfect for potlucks, holidays, family parties, or fall.
Ingredients
- 8 oz cream cheese
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 small container cool whip
- 8 cups chopped apples approx 5 medium apples
- 4 chocolate and caramel candy bars I used Milky Way
- 1-3 tbsp caramel topping
Instructions
- Using either a stand mixer or hand beaters, combine the cream cheese and brown sugar. Beat until smooth and no longer grainy.
- Fold the Cool Whip into the cream cheese mixture, set aside.
- Chop the apples and candy bars.
- Combine the Cool Whip mixture with the apples and candy bars.
- Drizzle the caramel topping over the top and serve. Make sure to keep refrigerated!!
- Alternate Caramel use: You can drizzle the caramel throughout the salad if you’d like a bit more caramel in your salad. You can do this by putting a small amount of salad into the serving bowl and then drizzling with caramel before stacking more salad on top. Repeat this until all of the salad is in the serving bowl.
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Caramel Apple Salad
Ingredients
- 8 oz cream cheese
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 small container cool whip
- 8 cups chopped apples, approx 5 medium apples
- 4 chocolate and caramel candy bars, I used Milky Way
- 1-3 tbsp caramel topping
Instructions
- Using either a stand mixer or hand beaters, combine the cream cheese and brown sugar. Beat until smooth and no longer grainy.
- Fold the Cool Whip into the cream cheese mixture, set aside.
- Chop the apples and candy bars.
- Combine the Cool Whip mixture with the apples and candy bars.
- Drizzle the caramel topping over the top and serve. Make sure to keep refrigerated!!
- Alternate Caramel use: You can drizzle the caramel throughout the salad if you'd like a bit more caramel in your salad. You can do this by putting a small amount of salad into the serving bowl and then drizzling with caramel before stacking more salad on top. Repeat this until all of the salad is in the serving bowl.
Delicious! A hit at every party!