Recipe: Yummy 5-minute Ambrosia salad

5-minute Ambrosia salad. We don't put coconut in ours but that's the traditional way to eat it. This ambrosia salad with cool whip is just the tip of the iceberg with our upcoming fruit salad features. (update: Watergate salad is now live, do not miss this Ambrosia Fruit Salad with Cool Whip. What I love about this recipe is that it's minutes, I mean minutes, until its done!

In present day, we've come to know it as a deliciously, fluffy fruit salad (or dessert) with tropical flavors. This delicious Ambrosia Salad is so easy to make and always a big hit with kids and adults alike! Made in just one bowl, this classic dessert salad is the perfection addition to your next gathering! You can have 5-minute Ambrosia salad using 6 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of 5-minute Ambrosia salad

1. You need 8 ounces of thawed cool whip.
2. Prepare 1/2 cup of Greek or regular yogurt (I used honey flavored Greek).
3. It's 1 cup of maraschino cherries halved.
4. It's 1-11 ounce of can of mandarin oranges.
5. Prepare 1-8 ounce of can crushed or tidbit pineapple.
6. It's 1.5 cups of mini marshmallows regular or fruit flavored.

Make sure to try this Cherry Fluff, Reese's Peanut Butter Fluff, or Pina Colada Fluff. Ambrosia salad is a dessert salad, meaning that it's sweeter but still graces the table at the same time as the main meal. This is a very retro way to serve it, nowadays dessert salads are left until the last until, well, dessert time. After browsing through the grocery store deli, I spotted ambrosia salad.

5-minute Ambrosia salad instructions

1. Mix yogurt and cool whip..
2. Fold in pineapple, cherry halves, and marshmallows.
3. Last add in the mandarin oranges as they tend to break easier. Chill for an hour before serving. Holds up to 3 days in the fridge. I serve mine with a side of graham crackers..

I remembered how delicious the various fruits and cool whip were together. During the holidays, someone would always bring an extra large bowl of this wonderful dessert. These kinds of salads are super easy to make and last in the fridge for days. I've mentioned on here before that our family loves to enjoy ambrosia (or other sweet fruit salads) on special holidays — and even with the occasional weeknight. A classic ambrosia salad recipe is an American fruit salad that typically contains pineapple, mandarin oranges, miniature marshmallows and coconut.