Macadamia nut and chocolate chip drop cookies!
| Prep Time: | 5 mins |
| Cook Time: | 10 mins |
| Additional Time: | 1 day |
| Total Time: | 1 day 15 mins |
| Servings: | 8 |
| Yield: | 8 servings |
Ingredients
- 1 (16.5 ounce) can pitted Bing cherries, drained, juice reserved
- 1 (12 fluid ounce) can cola-flavored carbonated beverage
- 1 (6 ounce) package black cherry flavored Jell-O® mix
- 1 (15.25 ounce) can crushed pineapple, drained
- 1 cup chopped pecans
Instructions
- In a saucepan, combine the reserved cherry juice with the cola. Bring to a boil, and stir in the gelatin until dissolved. Remove from the heat, and mix in the drained cherries, drained pineapple, and chopped pecans. Pour mixture into a mold sprayed with non-stick cooking spray, and refrigerate for at least 24 hours before serving.
Reviews
This recipe has been around for a long time, a VERY long time, and I’ve been making it for many years. My MIL always served this with a chicken casserole that she made, and that tradition continues in our house. I know there are a lot of jello haters out there, but if you’re a jello fan, give this one a try. I typically use sugar-free jello, but it’s not available in the black cherry flavor. One time, I’m going to try it with the regular SF “cherry.” That certainly would get calories down, and the flavor difference between cherry and black cherry may not be that significant…worth a try. It is sweet, but all ingredients complement each other, and the pecans give it a nice crunch.
Made this for Thanksgiving…I did not care for this.
LOVE this recipe! I have made it every Thanksgiving for the past five years and everyone raves!
This is probably my favorite Jello salad.
Didn’t really like .. seemed to be too much fruit for me. taste was fine ..
I made this for our family holiday gathering. It was a huge hit!! The only change I made was to leave out the pecans. I love pecans, but not every one is fond of nuts, plus I was afraid the nuts might get soggy. Really an easy and wonderful recipe. Thanks!
I couldn’t taste the Coke that was used in making this salad. It tasted like it does when using water instead of Coke. Next time I’ll use water in the recipe and drink the Coke. I omitted the nuts.
This, with the addition of one package of cream cheese, coarsely chopped, has been a tradition at our Christmas table for many years. It’s so good! And here I was thinking it was a secret family recipe! 🙂
This was very, very good. Following other reviewers suggestions, I chopped up the cherries. I also used a 3 oz pkg of Black Cherry Jello and a 3 oz pkg of Cherry, because that’s all I had – it turned out well. I also omitted the nuts, because we don’t care for them, and it was delicious! Thanks for the recipe!
My family did not much care for this one- had to really encourage them to taste it, and they are not picky. We all agreed to the nuts (even cut in half) were very overwhelming. I guess we have to keep shopping.
This version is okay, but is a rip-off of a much better recipe containing cream cheese. I suggest those who like this try the REAL Coca-Cola(tm) salad. You won’t be disappointed.
Great potluck recipe and soooooooo easy. Like some other reviewer’s I reduced the nuts to about 1/2 cup. Also cut the cherries in half before adding them. Did not have black cherry Jello so I used wild cherry which worked well. I used regular Coca’Cola. Everybody wanted the recipe. Thanks so much Andee for a simple but excellent recipe.
I’m not really a gelatin salad fan but this was very good. I brought it to Thanksgiving dinner and everyone loved it. It’s also very simple which is nice when in a hurry.
This is the best jello mold we ever had, and a big hit with guests. Thanks!
I knew my Mom had used this recipe several times to carry to potlucks, and it was always big success for her. I needed to fix a nice congealed salad for a large dinner at my church. This is the one I used. I scaled the recipe for 16 people, and used a 9×13 pan. I did as suggested in other reviews, and used less pecans. It turned out great!
I used sugar-free regular cherry jell-o because the store I shop at didn’t have black cherry jell-o. I also used tart cherries & Cherry Coke & half the nuts the recipe calls for as others have suggested. I made it in my Tupperware jell-o mold & it turned perfect. Everyone loved it. I think I will experiment using cranberry jell-o for Thanksgiving & maybe try it with orange jell-o, Sprite & mandarin oranges in place of the cherries for a citrus salad.
Really good. It’s a nice gelatin mold for Thanksgiving or Christmas because it has a deep, dark reddish color. The cherries and pineapple make a tasty blend.
Everyone really enjoyed this dish last year so I will make it again. (Note – I omitted the nuts.)
I made it despite my… er.. better judgment. Good thing I don’t listen to myself. Yum!
Great for the Holidays, but I suggest you cut down on the Nuts.
This was super-easy. Even using sugar-free gelatin and diet cola, it tasted good. The gelatin seemed really firm to me though–is it really supposed to be a 6-oz box of gelatin?