I wonder if everyone has a family fruit salad recipe that it just would not be the holidays without. Our family does and it is called cranberry fluff. I used to hate it when I was a kid but now it just would not be Thanksgiving if I didn’t have a spoonful or more. It grows on you until you look forward to it, I promise!
Cranberry Fluff
Ingredients:
2 Cups fresh cranberries washed and picked over.
1/8 Cup Sugar
1 Can Cranberry Sauce
1 regular sized Tub Cool Whip
1 Small Can Tidbit or Crushed Pineapple
½ Bag Small Marshmallows
1 Cup toasted and chopped pecans
Directions:
Put the fresh cranberries in a Ziploc bag and smash with a hammer – I really like this part.
Sprinkle sugar inside bag, seal, and place in fridge to macerate for an hour or so.
About 1 hour before serving open the can of Cranberry Sauce and break up with a fork like this:
Then add the macerated fresh cranberries to the bowl.
Add pecans, marshmallows, pineapple and finally fold in the Cool Whip.
Refrigerate for 1 hour and serve.
I LOVE this salad!!! My MIL introduced it to me…but of course, the picky husband won’t eat cranberries (or pineapple or nuts). Sheesh…and now I’m craving it!!!
Oh mine would never eat it either…….
oh! it does look delicious & with the marshmallows I’m sure it tastes amazing! 🙂 it’s good that you posted this because my mom prepares a fruit salad every Christmas & she prepares it with mini marshmallows too. I love her salad very much now & when I was a kid I didn’t like it so much 🙂
(btw, I would love to smash the cranberries with a hammer) 🙂
I always enjoy that part!
my husband brought a cranberry fluff recipe into the family that is a fave…it is similar to yours…but doesn’t have cranberry sauce or marshmallows. Yours looks really yummy!
Thank you so much Christy! I love the marshmallow part myself. 🙂 Thanks for dropping by and please come again!!
My MIL used to make this back in the 1950-60s and I always got a lot to take home with me because she and I were the only ones who liked it. Thanks for reminding me of this great salad.
Lillian
You are welcome! It’s been in our family for as long as I can remember! 🙂
Any time you get to use a hammer in the kitchen is good times!!
Loving what I’m seeing here, as usual 🙂
Hi Noelle! So happy to hear from you. I miss you terribly and hope we can find a way for me to follow you again really soon!
Haha I love the name ‘fluff’, reminds me of cranberry clouds of deliciousness 😀
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Well well well – YOUR name is unusual my dear and what the heck??? YOu look 25 in that picture! I didn’t even know it was YOU!!! I’m old. Love ya! You can laugh now.
I actually don’t remember ever eating ‘fluff’. I’ve seen it at parties and buffets, but I just never tried it. I’m weird with food, haha. Your sounds pretty tasty, though!
Top Girl wouldn’t touch it with a 10 foot pole either! 🙂
Fresh cranberries – how fab – we don’t get them on this side of the world! CHeers
That’s too bad – although, if not macerated – they are bitter! 🙂
We never ate this while I was growing up but I can’t help thinking that my maternal grandmother who loved Waldorf Salad and Banana Spit Pie would have adored your cranberry fluff, Kelli.
Banana Split, of course.
Heh, heh – I like it the way it was in the post! 🙂
My dad was a HUGE fan of waldorf salad too!
Can you make this a day ahead?
Yes, of course! I like it better after it has set for a day. I would wait to add the marshmallows until right before you serve so they won’t get mushy!
This is served at the local tea room, but with strawberries. Love it.
Oohhh – that sounds delicious! I will have to try that! Thanks for dropping by!
I love cranberries and pineapple and will enjoy this recipe. Fluff is a tasty treat as I rarely see it on menues. Looking forward to preparing this recipe for my family`s Christmas dinner.
I think you will love it JJ! I just got back from the grocery store with all the fixins’ for my dish – Can’t wait to taste it! Thanks for dropping by, please come again!
What is considered a regular size tub of Cool Whip? 8 or 16 ounces?
Love the pictures! Wonderful website – love it, love it, love it!
I’m so glad that you love the site! 8 oz. is what I consider regular sized. I had never seen the giant tubes until Saturday when my daughter and I were at the store! I need to get out more, don’t I? 🙂 Thanks for dropping by and please come again!
I wonder if real whipped cream would work instead of Cool Whip? We have sworn off Cool Whip because of the unhealthy aspects.
Here i touted myself as a great cook, with Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas and New Years as my specialties. I never knew you could eat Cranberries that way. In Texas that would be RAW. Only thing I knew was boiling them with water and sugar to make Berry Cranberry Sauce and Cooked Cranberries with chopped apples and pecans. Sometimes I would throw in a few tidbits of pineapple if I had some in the refrigerator.
Thanks for the recipe and “cooking Lesson”.
Jean – Thanks for dropping by – please know that you can use real whipped cream instead of cool whip no problem!!