How to Make Ambrosia Fruit Salad

Make ambrosia fruit salad for your next outdoor gathering.

No matter how hot you are on a summer day, ambrosia salad can cool you with a sweet flavor and light texture that rivals ice cream. Ambrosia salad combines fruit and cream for a sweet and tangy taste, providing a dessert dish that that can be whipped up in minutes. Replace desserts like cakes and pies that heat up your kitchen with a chilled ambrosia salad that sets in the refrigerator until ready to serve.

Things You'll Need

• 8-oz. can pineapple chunks
• 11-oz. can mandarin oranges
• Mixing bowl
• 1 cup miniature marshmallows
• 1 cup coconut flakes
• 1 cup sour cream
• Spatula
• Plastic wrap
• 1/2 cup maraschino cherries (optional)
• 1/2 cup pecans (optional)
• 1/2 cup of seeded grapes (optional)
• 1/2 cup of bananas (optional)

Instructions

1. Drain the 8-oz. can of pineapple chunks and the 11-oz. can of mandarin oranges and pour the fruit into a mixing bowl.

2. Add 1 cup of miniature marshmallows and 1 cup of coconut flakes. Pour 1 cup of sour cream into the mixing bowl.

3. Stir the ingredients with a spatula to coat and combine them. Cover the ambrosia salad with plastic wrap and place it in the refrigerator to chill for at least two hours.

Tips & Warnings

• Add 1/2 cup of maraschino cherries, 1/2 cup of pecans, 1/2 cup of seeded grapes and 1/2 cup of bananas, if desired. Double the sour cream, coconut flake and marshmallow content when adding these ingredients.

References

• Taste of Home: Ambrosia Salad Recipe
• Food Network: Ambrosia Recipe; Alton Brown; 2007
• Epicurious; Super Simple Ambrosia Salad; 2005