Pretzel Salad - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 cups pretzels
3/4 cup butter or 3/4 cup margarine, melted
1/4 cup sugar
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups frozen whipped topping, thawed
2 (3 ounce) packages strawberry Jell-O gelatin dessert
2 cups pineapple juice
2 (10 ounce) packages frozen strawberries, with juice

Preparation

Using a food processor or blender, crumb the pretzels until fine.
Mix pretzels, melted butter, and 1/4 C sugar.
Press into 9 x 13 pan.
Bake 10 minutes@ 350 degrees.
Cool.
Blend cream cheese, 1 C sugar, and whipped topping.
Spread on cooled pretzel layer.
Bring pineapple juice to a boil.
Dissolve jello in hot pineapple juice.
Add strawberries with juice and stir until thawed and jello is partially set.
Spread over cream cheese layer.
Refrigerate 4 hours or overnight.
Cut into squares to serve.