Keto Jello Pretzel Salad
Keto Jello Pretzel Salad – a low-carb version of the sweet dessert jello pretzel salad with a salty crunchy crust. With a sweet cream cheese layer and sugar-free jello, this is delicious!
KETO JELLO PRETZEL SALAD
I really wanted to call this Keto Jello Pretzel Salad with a salty crust but reality is that there are no pretzels in this dessert.
If you’ve had the classic dessert I’m describing the taste will be familiar to you. A crunchy crust with a layer of cream cheese and topped with a layer of sugar-free Jello.
My hubby has a way of seeing whatever I’m making and developing a Keto version of it. This dessert honestly tastes the most non-Keto of all the things I’ve eaten. He made it for our annual Appetizer Wednesday and it was gone quickly!
OTHER KETO DESSERTS
KETO RECIPES
- Keto Biscuits
- Pizza Chaffle
- Baked Stuffed Avocado
- Proscuitto Egg and Sausage Cups
- Keto Meatballs
- Keto Chicken Pot Pie
- Lasagna in a Bowl
- Egg Drop Soup
- Pizza Stuffed Mushrooms
- Warm Bacon Cheese Dip
- Keto Seven Layer Dip
- Stuffed Mushrooms
- Cheesy Broccoli and Bacon Chicken
- Cloud Bread
- Bacon Asparagus Frittata Recipe
- Keto Broccoli Salad
Keto Jello Pretzel Salad
Keto Jello Pretzel Salad - a low-carb version of the sweet dessert jello pretzel salad with a salty crunchy crust. With a sweet cream cheese layer and sugar-free jello, this is delicious!
Ingredients
- 2 cups Keto cereal , (we use Catalina Crunch honey graham)
- 6 tablespoons salted butter, melted
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup no-carb sweetener, (we use Monkfruit)
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1 (.6 ounce) package sugar-free strawberry jello
- 1 1/2 cups frozen strawberries, chopped
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.In a food processor, pulse the cereal and butter into coarsely ground crumbs. Press into a 9x9 pan. Bake for 10 minutes. Let cool.
- In a medium bowl, beat the cream cheese and sugar together. In a separate bowl, whip the cream at a high speed for 2-4 minutes or until soft peaks form. Fold cream into the cream cheese mixture. Spread on top of the crust making sure to go to the edges to create a seal.
- In a medium bowl, add the Jello. Add two cups of boiling hot water to the Jello stirring to dissolve. Add 1 1/2 cups cold water, 1 cup ice, and frozen strawberries Stir until combined and let set up in the fridge for just a few minutes (3-5 minutes). Let it set up enough so it's not super liquidy but the final setting up stage will be on top of the cream cheese layer. Pour the Jello over the cream cheese layer and chill in the fridge until serving.
Serving: 1/9 of the recipe, Calories: 214kcal, Carbohydrates: 9g, Protein: 6g, Fat: 19g, Saturated Fat: 11g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g, Monounsaturated Fat: 4g, Trans Fat: 0.3g, Cholesterol: 50mg, Sodium: 118mg, Potassium: 64mg, Fiber: 4g, Sugar: 2g, Vitamin A: 625IU, Vitamin C: 14mg, Calcium: 24mg, Iron: 0.1mg
This was exceptional! We liked it better than the real sugar with pretzels version. Thank you so much for figuring this out. It was always one of our favorite deserts/side dishes every holiday too and I’m delighted to have it back but a better version.Â
At first I didn’t like the taste of the Catalina Crunch by itself because it uses stevia to sweeten and I don’t like the strong overpowering taste of stevia at all. I became worried I wouldn’t like the desert because of this. However I used regular erythritol from Whole Earth for the sugar substitute that is added to the cream cheese so I’m sure that helped. I only had an .3 oz box of sugar free strawberry jello so I mixed it with a .3 oz box of sugar free lemon jello that I did have and the combination was delicious, still mostly a strawberry flavor but enhanced. In the end the whole recipe worked out beautifully with no strong stevia taste from the Catalina Crunch at all. I was so happy. This recipe is a forever keeper.Â
Thank you!!
Where’s the nutritional content? How many carbs?
As written for 9 large servings (cutting 3×3) the Calories are 310, Total Carbs are 21.9, Fiber is 4.5, Net Carbs are 6.8, Protein is 8, and Fat is 27.8.Â
HOWEVER, you can cut this 4×4 for a total of 16 servings and still have a substantial amount to thoroughly enjoy and the nutritional content will be: Calories 175, Total Carbs 12.3, Net Carbs only 3.8, Fiber 2.5, Protein 4.5, and Fat 15.6.Â
At times I can handle more carbs in my diet, especially holidays, so would use the 9-serving size, but when I’m laser focused on weight loss I love that I can enjoy a bit of this still by using the 16-servings size.Â
JELLO DID NOT SET! And no wonder. Jello package calls for 2 cups TOTAL water whereas recipe calls for 4+ cups! This Jello was never, ever going to set.
Very, very disappointing oversight as the Jello and strawberries had to be thrown away.
Sorry what size package of jello are you using? Ours does call for 2 cups boiling water and 2 cups cold.
I almost made this mistake too. A single box is .3 oz and the recipe calls for .6 oz, so you would have needed 2 boxes of the sugar free jello if you had the standard small sized box. She probably had the larger .6 oz size. Maybe she can alter their recipe to clearly state 2 small .3 oz boxes or 1 large .6 oz box so that it would trigger awareness and avoid someone making this mistake. The recipe is fantastic made as written with the correct amount of jello mix.Â
Can you sub ground pork rinds for the cereal?
I haven’t tried it but it’s worth a try
I subbed nuts
Absolutely DELICIOUS! My husband loved it too. Thank you!Â
Where is the nutritional information? Did I miss it? Thanks!
I’m looking for it too!