Lisa'S Fruit Salad With Caramelized Pretzel Topping - cooking recipe

Ingredients

CARAMELIZED PRETZEL TOPPING
3 cups pretzels, broken up into small pieces
4 tablespoons butter
1 cup brown sugar
SALAD
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

Preparation

Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
Line a jelly roll pan with foil.
Break up pretzels on pan.
Melt butter in microwave, add brown sugar, stir together, and dump onto pretzels.
Stir until well coated.
Bake for 5 minutes.
Cool and break apart pretzels.
For the fruit salad put into large bowl: mix pudding and buttermilk together.
Fold in the whipped cream, crushed pineapple, and mandarin orange pulp.
Cover top of salad with caramelized pretzel topping right before serving.