Raspberry Cranberry Jello Salad

Nothing says Thanksgiving to me better than this Raspberry Cranberry Jello Salad. Cranberries and crushed pineapples married in a raspberry flavor jello, how delicious does that sound?

I have been making this jello salad for Thanksgiving for quite a few years now. In fact, if I make it any other time during the year. I hear from the kids “I feel like I should be eating turkey with my jello”.

Not only is this raspberry cranberry jello salad delicious but very festive in its looks.

Raspberry Cranberry Jello Salad Recipe

As a kid, I can remember my grandmother having cranberry sauce on the Thanksgiving table. You know the kind that takes the form of the can.

I admit I never tried it, must have been a little intimidated by the form of the sauce.

When I can across this recipe years ago all I could think of was that canned cranberry sauce. Boy, was I wrong this recipe is far from that canned cranberry sauce that my grandmother used to eat. 

My family likes it so much that it is a must for our Thanksgiving each year.

Easy Jello Salad Recipe

This salad is a very simple recipe to put together. Staring in a large bowl I add the raspberry gelatin and unflavored gelatin, mix these together. Like most jello recipes you will need boiling water.

I take a cup of water and place it into the microwave for 3 minutes and that gives me boiling water. Pour the boiling water over the gelatin mixture, I use a metal whisk to mix with for 2 minutes.

The boiling water dissolves the gelatin and the metal whisk helps hold the heat from the boiling water while you are mixing.

With the gelatin dissolved from the boiling water, it’s time to add the cold water. Next, I add the canned cranberry sauce and canned crushed pineapple.

I do add the juice from the crushed pineapple as well. I also like to break the cranberry sauce up some, I find this helps when it comes to mixing it into the jello water.

Having all the ingredients mixed together I pour it into a bundt pan that I sprayed with cooking spray. You can use a jello mold, I don’t have any molds that would work, I find the bundt pan works great.

Place the jello mold into the refrigerator until the gelatin has set up.

Thanksgiving Cranberry Jello Salad

To get the gelatin out of the mold I like to place it into a sink of warm water and take a knife around the edges.

Then I take a platter plate and place over the mold and flip it over. It might take some convincing to get the salad out.

You can serve the salad like it is or with a nice topping of whipped cream. My family likes to have this as a side dish at Thanksgiving but also as a dessert later in the day.

There is definitely something about cranberries and turkey that go together at Thanksgiving time, this Raspberry Cranberry Jello Salad is a must for our Thanksgiving meal.

Hope you enjoy this recipe with your holiday celebrations~ Jenny

other My Creative Manner Recipes you may like are:

• Instant Pot Hard Boiled Eggs
• Instant Pot Cranberry Sauce
• Strawberry Jello Fruit Salad Recipe

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