A 5 cup dessert? Just 5 ingredients? 5 minutes to prepare?
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My Grandma’s recipe for 5 cup dessert (other common names include Sour Cream Dessert or Ambrosia) was a staple at our family holidays. She could whip it up in under 5 minutes. It would often be gone in under 2 minutes when myself and my 7 cousins dug in.
I worked with DairyPure to re-create Grandma’s recipe. I hope you enjoy it as much as my cousins and I did!
I have improved on Grandma’s recipe by using DairyPure Sour Cream as it is is made with fresh cream and milk from their own dairy, with no artificial growth hormones. I also love that I can make the recipe with either variety: All Natural Sour Cream or Light Sour Cream ( PSST: the Light version contains 50% less fat and 41% fewer calories).
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Try my Grandma’s recipe for Super Simple 5 Cup Dessert today! Let me know what you think of the improvements.
- 1 cup Mandarin orangers (drained)
- 1 cup shredded coconut
- 1 cup small marshmallows (can be white or muitl-color)
- 1 cup Dean's DairyPure sour cream (regular or light)
- Drain Pineapple and Mandarine oranges.
- Mix all 5 ingredients together.
- Refrigerate 24 hours.
- Serve in bowl or single serve dessert cups.
- Enjoy
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I. Freaking. Love. This. Dessert.
I’m crazy about this dessert, I get it every time at our favorite buffet place. Not exactly like this but very similiar.
I love easy and simple recipes and this one hits a home run! This would great for my next bridge club night.
Really looks good i love fruit
Looks simple and delicious ????
Unfortunately, my dairy allergy would go bonkers with this (and if I’m going to cheat and risk a reaction, I’m going to eat ice cream). But my sweetie loves coconut, sour cream and marshmallows (and enjoys fruit), but I don’t know if he’s had them combined like this. I’ll have to make it for him! Thanks for the recipe.
My Mom makes a five in one salad that is very close to this. There is not a holiday that this salad is not on the table. If it’s not, it doesn’t feel the same.
That does seem simple! And only five cups!
A veritable staple of the pot luck crowd.
We are always looking for different treats to prepare the grand kids…and me!
This is one of those simple, lovely recipes that I don’t really think about when scrambling to find a recipe… But when I see it (as featured in this post, for example!), it’s an immediate “aha!” One reason that I recipe that I love this sort of recipe is that it seems that so many people can identify with it– from childhood, family reunions, potlucks, and so on. Thank you for this post, and for sharing this recipe!
THanks for your sweet words Ann. The Chief BLonde
My grandmother used to make something like this (maybe exactly this, I don’t know) calling it ‘ambrosia’.
It’s too bad the closest place is 24 miles away…but not a city I normally go to. I wonder if other sour cream would work. I admit I haven’t had this. At first, the 5 ingredients I thought it was going to be a variation of jello cloud. I was surprised and curious at the recipe. While I don’t like pineapple, my husband loves it. Thanks for sharing.
THere are a lot of variations Sherry…pinapples are not a must.
Good to know. I wonder how strawberries would work…strawberries with coconut is really good.
We had this every holiday growing up!!! I still make it for my kids.
WALMART
20.4mi
1000 W SHAWNEE ST, MUSKOGEE, OK 74401
My closest place is 0.9 miles away at the gas station. Good to know
I can buy it at Dollar General two miles from my house!!
Walmart in Cedar Hill, TX
I can get it at cvs
I can buy it right here at Leppinks in town!