Orange Fluff Salad is a childhood treasure. With a surprising mix of ingredients, it is full of sweet orangey flavor and comes together easily. It is a great accompaniment for a variety of main dishes and has been a longtime favorite on many family tables.
This is an oldie, but goodie sort of recipe. You can call it “vintage”, if you want to. I don’t have any idea of its origins, but it has definitely been around a long, long time – decades. Like since I was a kid.
The number 1 reason that I am posting this recipe is because I can never find the recipe when I get ready to make the salad. I am a lousy puter-backer with recipe cards. They are forever getting lost.
Would you believe that I used to be enormously OCD? Then one day I had a come-to-Jesus meeting with reality and ever since that time the OCD thing began to unravel – which has had both advantages and disadvantages. The disadvantage is that now I lose things and my house is chaotic. On the other hand, one of the advantages is that I can happily walk away from dirty dishes and laundry and hang out with my family and not feel guilty or anxious.
I make no apologies for not introducing you to some brilliantly healthy new recipe. I do encourage you though, to embrace a time-honored recipe for a very easy family favorite. It presents a sumptuously pastel Easter table salad.
This is not just an “Easter” type of dish. It works equally well on a Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner table. Try it anytime, too. It’s a great one for picnics, family reunions, Church socials, book club…whatever!
Plus, you can make it with the low’s, no’s and free’s. Low fat, no fat, sugar-free ingredients. Try low-fat cottage cheese, no-fat or lite Cool Whip, and sugar-free Jell-O. There’s also sugar-free marshmallows available on the market, but I refuse to submit to sugar-free marshmallows.
Orange Fluff Salad
Ingredients
- 1 (16 ounce) container cottage cheese (2 cups)
- 1 (6 ounce) box orange Jell-O (can use regular or sugar-free)
- 1 (8 ounce) container Cool Whip
- 1 (11 ounce) can mandarine oranges, drained
- 1 (20 ounce) can pineapple tidbits, drained
- 1 cup miniature marshmallows
Instructions
- To a large mixing bowl, add the cottage cheese. Sprinkle the Jell-O powder over the cottage cheese and mix together well. Allow to sit for a few minutes. The Jell-O may not completely dissolve at this point. Don't worry about it.
- Add the Cool Whip and fold together with the cottage cheese/orange jello mixture.
- Add mandarine oranges, pineapple tidbits, and miniature marshmallows. Fold together.
- Cover and place in refrigerator until chilled and thickened. This is a soft salad and will be thick, but will not set "firm".
Notes
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Strawberry, Banana, Pineapple Jello Salad
Ambrosia
Watergate Salad
This looks great Terri! I love cool whip anything and pineapple and mandarine oranges are a favorite too. 🙂 I have never made this salad… Watergate and ambrosia salad yes… but this is a great one to add my collection! Happy Easter my friend!! Have a joyous day! ~ Ramona
Ramona–Thanks for the Happy Easter wishes. I’m going to have to make ambrosia one of these days. I had one at my daughter’s culinary school one time and everything that been made by or cut by hand. Even the marshmallows were hand made. The pineapple was fresh, not canned. Oh goodness, it was DELICIOUS!
When families used to get together for Easter and other holidays there was always a jello ‘fluff’ or salad of some kind – so many good recipes and memories. This is a beautiful one too!
Susan, so true about the jello salad in some form or other. I’m going to have to post one that an old acquaintance’s family referred to as “green goop”. It tasted really good, but I have got to come up with a different name for it!
I’m so glad I stumbled across your blog (via Plain Chicken) I made this salad for my boyfriend a few nights ago (it was love at first bite) for the first time. He asked me what it was called and I was dumbfounded! Growing up in Utah I just knew it as the orange cool whip stuff, so he named it “Orange Delight” but I think I’m partial to your Orange Fluff! Looking at your blog reminds me of back home! Thanks for the memories!
Amber, it’s always nice to have good memories of home. I’m glad that you and your boyfriend enjoyed the salad. Orange Delight is as good a name as any for it. There’s an old acquaintance of mine whose family had a jello recipe called “Green Goop”. I ought to post that one on the blog, just for fun.
This sounds so yummy. Thanks Terri and Happy Easter to you and your family.
Making this tomorrow for our church Thanksgiving Dinner!!!
Woot, woot! This is an oldie, but goody. Yum!
Any ideas on making this with blueberry jello?
Use the blueberry jello in place of the orange jello. Stir in fresh blueberries instead of the mandarin oranges. You could also use a mixture of fresh blueberries and fresh raspberries.
Mine Tastes like the jello did not dissolve completely . Any suggestions??