I'm looking for ways to "dress up" plain canned cranberry sauce since I won't be making homemade sauce this year. Any ideas?
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1 - 13 - 1/2 ounce can crushed pineapple
2-3 ounce packages Lemon Flavored Jello
1-7 ounce bottle Ginger Ale
1 - 1 pound can (2 cups) Jellied Cranberry Sauce
1 - 2 ounce package dessert topping mix
1 - 8 ounce package softened cream cheese
1/2 cup chopped pecans
METHOD: Drain pineapple, reserving syrup; add water to make one cup, heat to a boil. Dissolve jello mix in hot liquid; cool. Gently stir in ginger ale. Chill till partially set. Blend fruits; fold into gelatin. Turn into 9 x 9 x 2 inch dish until firm - prepare dessert topping mix or use Cool Whip; blend in cream cheese; spread over gelatin. Toast pecans in one tablespoon butter at 350 degree oven for 10 minutes. Sprinkle on top. Chill
This salad can be served in a pretty clear bowl; it is a pretty salad to serve for Thanksgiving or Christmas.
Enjoy
I would suggest adding the following:
Grate the zest of
-1 lemon
-1 orange
-1 lime
-Mint dried (2tsp) or fresh (4tsp) finely chopped
(if you only have dried mint,
soak in about 2 tablespoons of
the juice of any of the zested fruit,
for 30 min & follow the next directions)
Mix the zests and mint in well with your
canned cranberries. Present in a
glass dish/bowl, with a sprig of mint
leaves on top
Inexpensive, very enjoyable, and oh, so dressed up.
Happy Thanksgiving.....
This is super easy and pretty, inexpensive to boot!
Use raisins-your choice whether golden or regular. Warm up some OJ in a saucepan to simmering-add a handful of raisins-per can of cranberry into the saucepan and remove from heat. The raisins will replump soaking up some juice.
Not what you were looking for I am sure but...
No one in our family is really into any kind of cranberry sauce and the ones that are prefer the canned jelly type. So one year as a joke I slipped it out of the can, sliced it into slices and then used a turkey shaped cookie cutter to make turkey shapes. It always gets a few laughs & is somewhat of a family tradition now.
Our preschool makes a nice sauce by mixing canned cranberry sauce with mashed up strawberries (we use thawed frozen, unsweetened ones) and crushed walnuts. These are put in small jars and given away as treats before the holidays.
1 can of whole cranberry sauce
1 can drained crushed pineapple
1 can drained mandarin oranges
1 pkg. cherry jello dry
3 bananas sliced
Mix together.
I thought about adding cool whip but it's is really good as it is and a little less calories.
We used to wash an orange and then cut up the peel into 1/4" bits, and as the sauce sits the flavor goes all through it. No problem to eat the peel bits.
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