Excellent Fruit Salad
By
Evelyn Startsman
@cevelyn
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I make this, usually, for the holidays. My Mother even asks for it on her birthday!! It would be good in the summertime also for the family BBQ... Enjoy :)
Rating:
★★★★★ 2 votes5
Serves:
8-10 or so
Prep:
30 Min
Ingredients
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1 1/28 oz cream cheese blocks (room temp)
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18 oz cool whip
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·splenda ( a couple of tbls or so)
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·almond extract (cap full or so)
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2lg cans fruit cocktail (29 oz)
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1can pineapple chunks (20 oz)
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2jars of jumbo maraschino cherries (or more, if you want)
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1can mandarin oranges (optional)
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2cups shelled walnuts
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1 or 2bananas’s sliced (optional…they get dark on leftovers…ugly)
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·sliced almonds
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·flaked coconut, sweetened
How to Make Excellent Fruit Salad
- Drain fruit cocktail, pineapple chunks and cherries. Drain mandarin oranges separately.
- Mix cream cheese (it's a lot easier at room temp or even you can put in micro-wave for 20 to 30 seconds to soften) with a spoon. Mix in cool whip with cream cheese gently. Add a couple of tablespoons of splenda and capful or so almond extract. (If you want to use sugar instead of splenda, that would be fine also)
- Now, fold in cream cheese/cool whip with fruit cocktail/pineapple/cherries mixture. Add sliced banana’s if you want…..remember banana’s do darken on leftovers and are kinda ugly…..fold in mandarin oranges…they are very delicate and brake easily. Add a couple of cups of shelled walnuts. You can also add anything else you might think would be good in here….such as raisins, apple chunks or even marshmallows. Whatever sounds good to you! Put in bowl. I usually try to chill the bowl ahead of time (if I remember!!!) At this time I usually sprinkle a row of coconut around outer edge of bowl on top then a row of sliced almonds, another row of coconut, a row of almonds until I reach the center…if I remember to hold out 1 cherry. I put that in the center…
- Now you cover with plastic wrap and put in fridge until you serve it/eat it…
Enjoy!!!!!!!
:o)
About Excellent Fruit Salad
Course/Dish: Fruit Salads
Hashtag: #Fruit
