For more than 25 years, this salad has been a prerequisite meal at our house for Thanksgiving and Christmas. It is by far our favorite and very simple to make! Enjoy!
| Prep Time: | 10 mins |
| Additional Time: | 2 hrs |
| Total Time: | 2 hrs 10 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 12 to 16 servings |
Ingredients
- 1 (21 ounce) can cherry pie filling
- 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
- 1 (11 ounce) can mandarin oranges, drained
- 1 (15 ounce) can crushed pineapple
- 1 cup shredded coconut
- 2 cups miniature marshmallows
- 1 (16 ounce) package frozen whipped topping, thawed
Instructions
- Mix together the cherry pie filling, condensed milk, oranges, pineapple, coconut, marshmallows and whipped topping.
- Chill for several hours and top with crushed pecans if desired.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 373 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 60 g |
| Cholesterol | 11 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 4 g |
| Saturated Fat | 12 g |
| Sodium | 86 mg |
| Sugars | 42 g |
| Fat | 14 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Just what the Doctor would never order, haha! It was heavenly, sweet and just like we had as kids for Easter dinner. Follow the recipe exactly, it doesn’t need any monkey business.
Yes I love it
This is sooo delicious. And even better on the second day. I often leave out the coconut but it has replaced our traditional Jello Salad and Fruit Salad for the Holidays! It’s simply scrumptious– so many delicious flavors together make it feel really festive in your mouth.
We don’t like cherries so I substituted strawberry pie filling – perfect!
Memories of childhood! My family now doesn’t like coconut, so I omitted that (Replaced with an extra cup of marshmallows, and tad extra pineapple)… The only thing I would change about this is to add some maraschino cherries cherries, and maybe an extra can of mandarin oranges. OR just one can of the fruit cocktail that doesn’t have a lot of color to give some texture.) Thanks for the recipe! 🙂
I love this salad! I have made it several times and everyone raves about it!
This salad is great. It has an option to put coconut in it and I didn’t like it but my guests loved it. All a personal perference.. On the 1st one forgot the marshmallows and it was ok, but the next I did marshmallows with no coconut and it was gone in one sitting by 3 of us. Awesome!!!!
I have made this for more then (well a lot of years) it was handed down to me as YUM YUM, my kids did not eat coconut and the marshmallows make it sweeter then it is, so at the time I added bananas and grapes instead. This is also good with other pie fillings. Strawberry’s, apple, and blueberry. Like everyone stated great for taking anywhere, makes a lot.
My family loves this recipe! We leave out the sweetened condensed milk, because this salad is sweet enough without it. We also omit the marshmallows, but I can see how they would add to the flavor. This is one way to get my picky eater to eat his salad.
My mother would always make this recipe for family barbeques and special gatherings and everyone always loved it. The only difference was that my mom only used 7 ingredients: cherry pie filling, marshmallows (miniature size), sweetened condensed milk, crushed pineapple (drained), shredded coconut, pecan pieces, and cool whip. That’s it. So simple and so delicious!!
This recipe sounds delicious, but I’m confused. I thought I was looking at recipes for Jello fluff. Where is the Jello?
I made this for my daughter because she wanted a pink salad. Ever since I have had to bring this salad every time we have a family barbeque or get together as it was everybody’s favorite dish and I never have any left. It is so easy to make that the only change I made was to add an extra can of the mandarin oranges.
Very Good. Everyone has asked for the recipe!!
Took this dish to my office Thanksgiving luncheon. It was hit!! I did not add the coconut, as others suggested. It make a huge bowl of it, so it is great for a large crowd. Will make again! Thank you for sharing!
This is so good, I make it about once a month. I make fresh whipping cream but other than that I would never change anything in this recipe.
Same recipe I made years ago, aways a keeper. Bringing it to a party today, delish!
Great recipe- I add maraschino cherries instead of cherry pie filling though.
This salad is super yummy! I switched the cherry pie filling for strawberry. Love it! Will definitely make this recipe again.
We adore this fruit salad. Very easy to make and the taste is fabulous. The only changes I make is to omit the coconut (none of us like it) and to use the 8 oz whipped topping instead of 16 oz size. Thank you for an awesome recipe!!!
Ever since i was kid i can remember my mother making this salad for me. She still to this day makes it, only she adds 3/4 to a cup of chopped pecans.
I made this and it’s REALLY good. But next time I plan to omit the coconut. When it’s been in the refrigerator for a day or two, the coconut gets a little hard and I don’t think it adds much to the flavor. Otherwise, this is a fantastic recipe.