Festive Glossy Fruit Salad

Festive Glossy Fruit Salad

Spring needs to get here now, and this fruit salad is my way of trying to coax it along a bit! This recipe, or something like it, is usually a staple at gatherings in summer, and since we have such bad cases of the winter blahs, we are having some summer in a bowl today. This is a very easy recipe to make, and it seems to be a crowd favorite with folks scraping the last few drops out of the container at potlucks.

It starts easy enough: open a few cans of fruit and drain the juice off all but one. Pictured below are pineapple chunks (drained), peach slices (that I rough chopped and drained), and mandarin oranges (with the 100% juice undrained). I dumped it all in a big resealable bowl.

 Next, I chopped up some fresh apples and tossed them in the bowl.

Then I sliced a bunch of strawberries into pretty quartered sections and added those to the bowl.

The next step was hard for me to do the first time I tried this technique just because it seems unusual. Take a box of vanilla pudding mix and sprinkle it over the fruits and the one can of fruit juice. Stir it up until all of the juices begin to thicken. Let the whole bowl of yummy fruity goodness get well acquainted in the fridge overnight.

When you wake in the morning, this is what you're going to want to eat for breakfast. See all that gooey, glossy beautiful fruit? It's almost ready to eat now.

 Add some beautiful whipped cream, and this is a bowl full of summer goodness.

Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things, there is no law.