Grandma’s Orange Dream Fluff: It’s Delightful!

This yummy salad is perfect for the church potluck. What’s a church potluck dinner without some sort of fruity fluff salad? You know who else loves this dessert salad? Babies! If you’ve got a little one who is just starting on solid foods give him or her a tiny little taste of this fluffy dessert and watch their face light up in delight. I wouldn’t feed them any marshmallows though because well, you just don’t want to load a wee one up on sugar.

Check out what my pals over at Butter With A Side Of Bread had to say about this recipe and cream of coconut:

This recipe has been a family favorite for years.  I love fruit, and while fresh fruit is my favorite, this is a great recipe to make in the winter when good produce is hard to find (and expensive!), and it has also come in handy many times when I need to make a side dish and don’t have time to run to the store since many of the ingredients are ones that I keep on hand regularly.

The fruit in this creamy, dreamy, fluffy salad is amazing. It tastes so fresh and citrusy! I love it and so do my crazy kids who don’t really like this sort of thing.

 

Ingredients

3 oz. pkg instant Jello vanilla pudding mix

¾ cup-1½ cups TruMoo milk*

⅓ cup Tropicana frozen orange juice concentrate

8 oz container Cool Whip

20 oz. can Dole pineapple chunks or tidbits, drained well

11 oz. can mandarin oranges, drained well

2 Chiquita bananas, sliced

Instructions

Combine pudding mix, milk and orange juice concentrate in a mixing bowl.

Beat with an electric mixer on medium speed for about 2 minutes and then fold in the Cool Whip. Gently mix in the fruit and chill in the fridge for 2-3 hours until ready to serve.

Feel free to add more fruit. I often add more oranges or bananas, and sometimes I add strawberries and mini marshmallows too. Enjoy!

*We’ve made this recipe dozens of times with successful results, yet we’ve gotten several comments that the salad is too soupy. So, our advice is to reduce the milk to ¾ cups initially, and if the consistency is to your liking, feel free to add more.

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Quick Tip: I like to use multi-colored mini marshmallows in this salad. It just looks pretty!

Thank you to Recipe Lion for this great recipe.

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7 comments

Have you ever tried making this with marshmallow fluff/creme mixed in? If you always have success and people trying the recipe sometimes find it soupy, they may not be draining their fruit sufficiently. I think when I make this I’ll use crushed pineapple and press the juice out through a seive. It sounds so delicious and I love all things orange.

500ml cottage cheese, 1 small peach jello powder, 1 can drained mandarin oranges Mix. Then fold in 1 large tug of Cool Whip. Insanely good too. Easy Peasy.

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