Dessert Salads

Find old-fashioned favorites like ambrosia, Watergate salad, strawberry pretzel salad, and other cool and creamy dessert salads.

Jell-O® Salad

a serving of strawberry pretzel salad on a white plate

Strawberry Pretzel Salad

A blue bowl with frog eye salad and a spoon

a high angle view of several walking strawberry pretzel salads, in pretzel bags, wrangled on a tray, wooden spoons in two of the bags highlighting all the components to the recipe.

Walking Strawberry Pretzel Salad

A bowl of Watergate salad topped with maraschino cherries and sprinkled with chopped nuts, presenting a vibrant green hue typical of the dessert.

Watergate Salad

2 cups of pistachio salad

Pistachio Salad

closeup of grape salad with cream cheese-sour cream dressing garnished with chopped pecans in a glass dish

Green Grape Salad

high angle looking down at a small bowl of orange gelatin salad

Orange Gelatin Salad

Oreo Fluff Salad

Close up on a few little cups of pistachio fluff fruit salad.

Pistachio Fluff Fruit Salad

close up view of Cranberry Salad in a glass bowl

Cranberry Salad

close up view of Auntie Midge's Hawaiian Salad in a bowl

Auntie Midge's Hawaiian Salad

Cream Cheese Fruit Salad

Slice of Lime Gelatin Salad with whipped cream and lime slices on top

Lime Gelatin Salad

Taffy Apple Salad

side view of Judy's Strawberry Pretzel Salad made in a round spring-form pan so the crust, cream cheese layer, and strawberry gelatin layer are easy to see, displayed on a glass cake stand

Judy's Strawberry Pretzel Salad

Ambrosia Fruit Salad

Blueberry Salad

Apple Snicker Salad

close up view of a bowl with marshmallows, coconut pieces, sour cream, and mandarin pieces in a glass bowl

A scoop of cranberry jelly salad.

Cranberry Jell-O Salad

close up view of Rosa Marina Fruit Salad in a white baking dish

Rosa Marina Fruit Salad

Sarah's Ambrosia Fruit Salad

colorful stack of seven layer gelatin salad squares sits

Seven Layer Gelatin Salad

Pineapple Pretzel Salad

close up view of heart shaped gelatin on a pink platter

Fun Finger Gelatin

Red applesauce jell-o in a mold

Red Hot Applesauce Jell-O

broken glass cake

Broken Glass Cake

Cranberry Salad I

Heavenly Pink Salad

Strawberry Fluff

Old-Fashioned Strawberry Pretzel Salad

Easy Grape Salad

squares of Broken Window Glass, a Jell-O based dessert

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Easy Caramel Apple Salad

close up view of Mandarin Orange Watergate Salad in a metal bowl

Mandarin Orange Watergate Salad

Thanksgiving Jell-O Salad

Coconut Ambrosia Salad

Lime Pear Gelatin Salad

close up view of Lemon Lime Vegetable Salad with olives and carrots in a bowl

Lemon Lime Vegetable Salad

Orange Buttermilk Salad

Cottage Cheese Fluff

close up view of Ambrosia Salad with Fruit Cocktail garnished with coconut in a glass bowl

Ambrosia Salad with Fruit Cocktail

Cranberry Jell-O® Salad with Walnuts

Ambrosia salad with cherry topping in glass cup

Ambrosia Salad with Jell-O

Watergate Salad from DOLE

Bing Cherry Congealed Salad

close up view of Ham Jell-O Salad, garnished with lettuce, tomatoes and herbs, on a green platter

Kelly's Ham Jell-O Salad

Orange Tapioca Salad

close up view of Carrot Gelatin Salad garnished with a raspberry on a blue and white plate

Carrot Gelatin Salad

ambrosia

Mama's Ambrosia

Aunt Nancy's Grape Salad

close up view of Strawberry Whip garnished with strawberry slices in a glass baking dish

Strawberry Whip

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