Thanksgiving Cranberry Cream Cheese Salad
By
Jewel Hall
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7
Blue Ribbon Recipe
Perfectly sweet, perfectly tangy, this cranberry cream cheese salad is perfect for Thanksgiving. The filling has sweet grated apples and tart cranberries that are all held together with cherry Jell-O - it's a delicious combination. But, the Jell-o layer does not have a typical Jell-O texture. The cream cheese topping is sweet with bits of pineapple and chopped pecans in each bite. One taste and you'll be hooked. An easy holiday dessert.
The Test Kitchen
★★★★★ 25 votes5
Ingredients
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1 pkgcherry Jell-O (6 oz)
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2 cboiling water
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2 largeGolden Delicious apples, peeled and grated
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1 cchopped pecans
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1 can(s)whole cranberry sauce (14 oz)
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TOPPING
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1 pkgcream cheese, at room temperature 2 hours (8 oz)
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1/2 cpowdered sugar
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1 tspvanilla extract
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1 can(s)crushed pineapple, drained (20 oz) well
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6 - 8 ozfrozen whipped topping, thawed
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1/2 cchopped toasted pecans