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Festive Cranberry Salad

When getting together with friends and family, do you have some go-to recipes for your table? They change throughout the years for me – I find a favorite and it becomes a must-bring dish to potlucks and to serve guests – and other times a new recipe replaces an old one when someone shares it. For the past few years, this recipe has become a part of family get-togethers with my sister’s family and my own, thanks to a friend sharing it with me at a holiday gathering. “I need this recipe!”

A delicious cranberry salad for your holiday table.

It turns out it’s from a printed and bound family cookbook. Those are some of the best recipes don’t you think? Daycare collaborations, family reunion recipe gathering, fundraising books – they’ve got some treasures inside!

While I call this a festive cranberry salad, it’s suitable for summer gatherings as well and we certainly make it year round. The combination of tart granny smith apples and juicy sweetened cranberries with a creamy whipped cream topping make it irrisitable any time of the year. This photo shows it without the whipped cream on top, because to be honest it just photographs better this way! (Hi Pinterest!)

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Festive Cranberry Salad
 
Ingredients
  • 1lb cranberries (about one small bag from the grocery store)
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 cup crushed pineapple
  • 1 cup chopped granny smith apple (about 1 large or 2 small)
  • 1 cup chopped celery (4 large stalks)
  • 1 cup miniature marshmallows
Instructions
  1. Place cranberries in a food processor/chopper, then mix sugar into cranberries. *Optional: you can prepare this the night before and drain which will give you less juice in the salad. I've done it both ways and they're both great!
  2. Mix cranberry mixture with the remaining ingredients in a large bowl, that's it!
  3. Top with homemade whipped cream or cool whip and serve.

Homemade whipped cream is the best with this recipe (when isn’t it?) but you can also cheat and use a tub of cool whip or spray cool whip too.

 

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