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Three small cups of Ambrosia Salad with cherries on top sit on a white picnic table with a blue towel on it.

Ambrosia Salad


  • Author: Keith Lampkin
  • Yield: Serves 4

Description

Let this dessert take you away to the tropics with pineapple, clementines, cherries, and toasted coconut.


Ingredients

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  • 1 ½ cups heavy cream
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • ½ cup powdered sugar
  • 2 cups fresh pineapple, cut into ½-inch pieces
  • 6 clementines, sectioned
  • ½ cup fresh grapes, halved
  • ½ cup pecans, chopped
  • ½ cup maraschino cherries, halved
  • ½ cup toasted coconut

Instructions

  1. In a medium bowl, add heavy cream and vanilla and mix, using a hand mixer, for 1 minute.
  2. Add powdered sugar and continue mixing until cream forms stiff peaks. Set aside.
  3. In a separate bowl, combine pineapple, clementines, grapes, and pecans and mix.
  4. Add ½ the whipped cream and combine with cherries and half of the toasted coconut.
  5. Transfer to serving bowls and garnish with remaining coconut.