Snickers salad is a dessert salad consisting of a mix of Snickers bars, Granny Smith apples, Cool Whip or whipped topping, marshmallows, and often pudding served in a bowl. It is a potluck staple in the Midwestern United States. It is sometimes included in church cookbooks.

Snickers salad is easy to make; the ingredients are simply chopped and combined. As to whether it is a salad or a dessert, popular lore has it that it depends on which end of the table it is sitting at.

It has a rather unique texture, being sticky and crunchy. Clumps are known to get stuck in the teeth. This feature[dubious – discuss] makes the experience of eating it divisive.

The recipe for Snickers salad was included in a 2009 article "Salads worthy of a church picnic" in The Indianapolis Star. The author said that "Despite what all my community and church cookbooks would say, I don't think anything with marshmallows can really be called a salad."

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  • Joanne Raetz Stuttgen and Terese Allen Univ of Wisconsin Press, 2007 p. 72, 73 (Google preview)