My family really likes this jello salad - just make sure you get pitted cherries. I don't know why they even put UNpitted cherries in a can...

Becky

* Exported from MasterCook *

Cherry Blossom Mold

Recipe By :Betty Crocker's Cookbook - 1972
Serving Size : 10 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Jello Salads

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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2 cups boiling liquid (water or syrup)
1 package (6 ounces) cherry-flavored gelatin
2 cups sour cream
2 cups pitted dark sweet cherries or 1 can (1
lb), drained
1/3 cup slivered blanched almonds

Pour boiling liquid over gelatin in small mixer bowl, stirring until gelatin is dissolved. Cool. Add sour cream; beat until smooth. Chill until slightly thickened but not set.

Stir in cherries and almonds. Pour into 6-cup ring mold or into 10 individual molds. Chill until firm. If desired, garnish unmolded salad with additional cherries.

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Linda, here's one of my old favorites. I don't use the Cool Whip, sometimes I use whipped cream and sometimes I just use the curd type topping.

7-UP SALAD

SERVES 12

2 (3 ounce) boxes lime Jell-O gelatin
2 cups boiling water
2 cups 7-Up soda
1 (20 ounce) can crushed pineapple, well drained,reserve juice
1 cup miniature marshmallow
1 cup cottage cheese
1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1 cup pineapple juice (reserved)
1 egg, beaten
1 (8 ounce) container Cool Whip
1/2 cup chopped walnuts

Dissolve Jello in boiling water.
Add 7-up and cool until partially set.
Add crushed pineapple, saving juice for topping.
Add miniature marshmallows and cottage cheese.
Place mixture in a 13x9 in.
pan and refrigerate.

For topping: Mix sugar and corn starch.
Add pineapple juice and beaten egg.
Mix well and cook until thickened.
Cool.
Mix cool whip into cooled topping mixture, add nuts and mix well.
Spread over top of jello mixture.
Refrigerate.

Nancy

My advice for a jello salad that anyone under the age of 40 would like is equal amounts of orange and peach jello, drained mandarin oranges and drained canned crushed pineapple - maybe some chopped mara. cherries but no vegetables, no sour cream, mayo or cottage cheese and no nuts.

I have never made a jello salad so I can't help with that.

I think what you all are doing for this couple is very sweet.

I hope they toast YOU at the dinner. Congratulations.

Thanks for the good words....
No worries on the Jell-o salad...I just passed that task off to someone who asked "What can I do to help?" I told her!!
Linda C

Brilliant!

Ok....back from the B'nai mitzvah ( and they were wonderful!!) getting serious about this dinner.
Making a chicken and pasta casserole, 2 of them...cooked chicken, pasta, celery and onion sauteed, a can of cream of chicken soup...or 2 or 3 ( because it's in the kitchen, I didn't buy it, but aim to get rid of it!) topped with cheese ( thier request) and a jello salad....and tehre are a lot of frozen peas, so I think I will make some peas and carrots, for a bit of color on the plate.
I will make a lot of cake mix cup cakes, frosting is up in the air....maybe cream cheese frosting? Any suggestions? How About the "cute" factor? Any ideas? I have borrowed one of thsoe Wilton tiered fancy cake stand to put them on.
We will serve "cocktails" as people gather at 5:30...punch, cookies and small ham sandwiches....maybe peanut butter too. Any ideas for another small sandwich filling? cheap and not a lot of trouble?
Any ideas on a way to spiff up peas and carrots? I will precook carrot buttons, then add the frozen peas and perhaps a little bit of onion and cook until the peas are just done.
Oh and loaves of French bread, cut, spread with garlic butter and wrapped in foil and heated in the oven.
Any ideas of something to put on the bread besides garlic for any that may not like garlic bread? Or should I just serve the bread warmed and buttered?
These people havev ery unsophisticated tastes.... VERY.
I want to make it nice for them, but not serve things they wouldn't like. I want them to feel "Wow! this for us?" but not so wowed that they don't recognize the food. I have resisteda dding mushrooms to the casserole and water chesnuts. I won't add tarragon nor dill to the veggies, even though I think that would be wonderful, serving Jello salad rather than greens because I suspect they would think it a treat...
Any guidance?
Linda C

Some sort of cream cheese and garlic/herb sandwich? Tuna salad? Egg salad sandwiches? Deviled eggs if you need another finger food?

Couple easy ones-- cream cheese & a pretty jam/jelly on dark bread or a compound butter with drained chopped tomatoes & bacon crumbles on a dark bread. Or a pimento cheese filling.

If you are doing peas and carrots why not dice them instead? It sure would make a more attractive plating and be a whole lot easier to eat if everything is the same size.

Maybe a tablespoon of a ham salad on one of those pieces of cocktail rye bread served open face? A little amount of ham could be stretched a long ways...

Maybe a few pearl onions in with the peas/carrots?

Don't know what kind of cupcakes you're making...but if from a white or yellow mix...a well drained can of crushed pineapple mixed in with the cream cheese frosting on top of the cupcake would dress them up a bit & most people I 'think' like crushed canned pineapple?

Nice thing you're doing...kudos to you.

/tricia

Linda, you are so sweet to try to please your audience, even if it involves jello salads. LOL

I'd go with maigene's suggestion and dice the carrots into small cubes. Other than some butter, I don't think you'd need anything else to dress them up.

A mild garlic butter on the bread should please everyone. How about a little open face egg salad sandwich with a green olive sliced and fanned out on the top as another appetizer?

Not dicing the carrots!! There is a cuisinart at the church that makes quick buttons....but not dice!! LOL!
Like the egg salad idea....I had to buy eggs for the cake and there will be 6 left over. That ought to make about 25 little cocktail sandwiches.
And there is a can of crushed pineapple in the cupboard...
And there is cream cheese in the freezer...with a little cream it should spread well.
There is sliced ham in the freezer....I thought I would make ham salad out of it for the "cocktail" sandwiches.
Maybe do pineapple in some and not in others...
Maybe sprinkles....

For sandwiches I love cream cheese whipped with a little milk to make it spreadable and some chopped pecans added to it. Yum yum :-)
For the bread, if you're worried about non-garlic lovers, how about just herb bread with some bouquet garni herbs mixed in with the butter?
I think you're fantastic putting all this effort in, epecially as they're not making any donation to the church as a thankyou for this.