Snickers Apple Salad

Look, it’s the Holidays. Close enough, anyway. Basically this means that we’re all about to get super fat. I thought it’d be nice of me to share a nice, light salad recipe with you. You know, because salad is super healthy.

This super nutritional salad is full of things like apples (fruit!) and Snickers candy bars (protein from the nuts!) and Cool Whip (dairy – I think!).

Yeah, it’s pretty much the best salad ever and did I mention? It’s beyond simple. Also, it has the added benefit of being called a salad, so when you’re mom asks what you ate for dinner you can be all “Oh, I had a nice salad with some apples and nuts!” and she’ll pat herself on the back for doing such a good job raising you to be a healthy eater.

Honestly, it makes sense to make this salad for dinner. (Okay, fine, make it for dessert. Whatever.) You probably have a ton of apples laying around from your trip to the orchard (it is Fall, after all) and I’ll bet you could pilfer a few Snickers bars from the kids’ candy stash. We wouldn’t want any of that to go to waste.

Go have some salad. It’s totes good for you.

Snickers Apple Salad

• 3 Granny Smith apples
• 3 Snickers candy bars
• 1 (3.4 ounce) box instant vanilla pudding mix
• 8 ounces Cool Whip
• squeeze of lemon juice
• caramel ice cream topping, for drizzling

Rinse, quarter, and chop the apples into bite size pieces. (Peel them if you must, but I like the bright green color it adds – makes it seem so much healthier.) Place in a large bowl and squeeze on a bit of lemon juice (one good squeeze from a lemon) and toss them around to prevent browning. Chop or smash the candy bars into small pieces and add to the apples.

In a medium sized bowl, mix together the cool whip and dry pudding mix until well combined.

Pour the cool whip mixture over the apples and candy bars and stir to combine everything.

Let set in the fridge for 30 minutes before serving. Drizzle with caramel ice cream topping, if desired.