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Cherry Cream Salad

Cherry Cream Salad is all of your fruit salad dreams come true. It is fruity, creamy, sweet, and so easy to make. This salad just happens to have a can of pie filling. Yes, it is that divine. Not only is this Cherry Cream Salad full of sugar-y goodness, but it even has an extra healthy surprise thrown in, giving it an amazing texture.

Cherry Cream Salad from butterloveandcowboys.com

This recipe with it’s whole grain additive is a Chef Brad original. He has a show called “Fusion Grain Cooking” on BYU’s satellite station, BYUtv. My sister Jinny introduced me to Chef Brad and his cooking a few years ago. His recipes specialize in incorporating whole grains into just about everything! 

This may come as a surprise based on the simple fact that I run a dessert blog, but I am very passionate about health and fitness. I truly believe you are what you eat and fueling my body with things that are good for it is so important to me. I definitely leave some room in my diet for sweets however, because I believe moderation is one of the healthiest rules to live by. I am also a stickler about ensuring the majority of the grains I consume are whole grains. And that just happens to be what Chef Brad is all about!

Chef Brad taught me that Cherry Cream Salad may not be a healthy dish, but that doesn’t mean you can’t add some cooked kamut to give your body a little something that it will thank you for. If you don’t have kamut, don’t fret. You can certainly make and enjoy this salad without the addition of kamut, but it gives it a texture I absolutely adore!

Cherry Cream Salad from butterloveandcowboys.com

Cherry Cream Salad from butterloveandcowboys.com

Not only did Jinny introduce me to Chef Brad and his whole grain ways, but she also introduced me to this Cherry Cream Salad. She made it for Thanksgiving last fall and it immediately made its way onto my list of favorite fruit salads. My Mama and I decided we just had to have it on our Easter menu this Sunday. 

Oreo Peanut Butter Apple Salad is another great fruit salad for Easter Sunday!

Cherry Cream Salad
A delicious, creamy, and sweet fruit salad that will perfectly top off any holiday meal.
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Ingredients
  1. 1 14 oz can sweetened condensed milk
  2. 12 oz Cool Whip
  3. 1 21 oz can cherry pie filling
  4. 1 20 oz can crushed pineapple, drained
  5. *1 1/2 cups cooked kamut
  6. **1/2 cup chopped pecans (optional)
Instructions
  1. In a large bowl mix the sweetened condensed milk and Cool Whip. Add the cherry pie filing and gently stir until incorporated and the salad turns pink. Add the pineapple, kamut, and nuts (if using). Keep refrigerated. Enjoy!
Notes
  1. *I have made this salad without the kamut and without the nuts. It still turns out great, but I love the texture the kamut adds.
  2. **I am not a fan of nuts in my dessert so I didn't add them, but for those who like the texture, I'm sure you'd love it!
Adapted from Chef Brad
Adapted from Chef Brad
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Oreo Peanut Butter Apple Salad

This Oreo Peanut Butter Apple Salad is one of my new favorites! In my opinion, there is nothing that has the ability to spice up a family dinner quite like a fruit or jello salad. This would be a great addition to the table for Mother’s Day this Sunday. A lot of these types of salads are pretty much dessert, but I just pretend they’re not to justify eating dessert after the meal as well 🙂 The way I see it, if you eat enough, you will totally get a serving of apples. 

My adoration of the combo of Oreo’s and peanut butter came around the time the Lindsay Lohan version of “The Parent Trap” came out. It is still one of the most loved movies of my childhood! I was only about six or seven when my older sisters and I rented it on the Dish. We made a VHS recording of it and I watched that movie over and over and over and over and over. For years.

Remember the part where Hallie teaches Annie to dip Oreo’s in peanut butter? I started doing it too and have loved it ever since! I give that movie partial credit for the fact that Peanut Butter Oreo’s are now my favorite rendition of the cookie. I have been wanting to try incorporating peanut butter into a fruit salad for a while. So when I found this gem of a recipe over at Something Swanky, with peanut butter AND Oreo’s, I knew I would love it. She wrote it as a variation on Snickers Apple Salad- which is fabulous as well!

Oreo Peanut Butter Apple Salad from butterloveandcowboys.com

Oreo Peanut Butter Apple Salad from butterloveandcowboys.com

Oreo Peanut Butter Apple Salad from butterloveandcowboys.com

Oreo Peanut Butter Apple Salad from butterloveandcowboys.com

Oreo Peanut Butter Apple Salad from butterloveandcowboys.com

With only My Cowboy and I in our household, I don’t make salads like these very often because it is so hard for the two of us to get through an entire batch. So they are kind of a special occasion type of deal for us. I love to make them when I get the chance to feed a group of people that can help us eat it all. My sister and her family visited us a while back. This meant I had enough people to help us power through this delicious Oreo Peanut Butter Apple Salad! Not that it was a very difficult task by any means. I think My Cowboy and I almost could have eaten this salad entirely on our own 🙂

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Oreo Peanut Butter Apple Salad
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Ingredients
  1. 3.75 oz vanilla pudding mix
  2. 1 1/4 cup milk
  3. 1/2 cup peanut butter
  4. 8 oz Cool Whip
  5. 4 apples
  6. 20-25 Oreo's, chunked
Instructions
  1. In a large bowl, whisk the milk and pudding mix. Let thicken a couple minutes. Place peanut butter in a small, microwave-safe dish and microwave about twenty seconds, until melted, but not hot. Mix into the pudding. Fold in Cool Whip. Cut the apples into chunks and incorporate in the pudding mixture. If not serving immediately, place in the fridge for 1-2 hours. This isn't necessary, but will give time for the flavors to combine. The Oreo's get mushy pretty fast, so I prefer to wait to fold them in until right before I serve the salad. When you are ready to add the Oreo's, break them into large chunks and add them to the salad! Drizzle with hot fudge, or Hershey's Syrup and melted peanut butter if desired. I also like to garnish it with a few extra Oreo's. Enjoy!
Notes
  1. Recipe lightly adapted from Something Swanky.
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