Fluff It Up

One more day until Thanksgiving.  Here are some other simple salads you can make for Thanksgiving.  You get to pick what flavor you like best.

New 

New vs. old.  What to do?  

Old 

The one above is very old and a little different than what I call a fluff but has the same ingredients.  It is just assembled different.

1 pkg. of red raspberry Jello

1 cup of hot water

1 pkg. frozen raspberries

1/2 cup whipped cream

1/2 cup small marshmallows

3 oz. whipped cream cheese

Dissolve the gelatin in hot water.  Add the raspberries and their juice. Pour into a 5 x 8 inch loaf pan and chill until firm.  Whip together your cream, marshmallows and cream cheese until stiff.  Spread over gelatin mixture and chill.  

The following is a more contemporary recipe for raspberry fluff. 

1 pkg. of red raspberry Jello

1 cup of hot water

1 pkg. frozen raspberries

1 cup whipped topping 

1 cup small marshmallows

1 pkg. whipped cream cheese

Dissolve the gelatin in hot water.  Add the raspberries and their juice.  Let it set until it is semi firm.  Fold your cream cheese and whipped topping together.  Add it to your Jello and fold in until uniform color through out.  Fold in your marshmallows.  Refrigerate it until you serve.

Take the same recipe and turn it into your own by simply changing the fruit.  You can start with the Raspberry Fluff Salad recipe above and change the Jello to orange and put Mandarin oranges in it making an orange fluff salad. 

Change it to a strawberry fluff salad by using strawberry Jello and fresh or frozen strawberries. 

Use an instant vanilla pudding to replace the Jello (only use 1/2 the milk called for) and use a can of drained fruit cocktail and add some Marciano cherries and Mandarin oranges and make a mixed fruit fluff.  You can also add bananas if you like. 

You can take any of these salads and add other flavors such as coconut or walnuts.

Just start with a simple base of Jello or pudding, add whipped cream, cream cheese, marshmallows and your favorite fruit or fruit combinations.  It will be hard to pick your favorite fluff.  

Have a great day, be happy and may God bless you and yours.