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    Home » Soups and Salads

    Cranberry Fluff Salad

    Published: Nov 13, 2014 · Modified: Nov 26, 2023 by Jenna · This post may contain affiliate links · 7 Comments

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    Cranberry fluff is not your average salad and it has become a staple side dish at many homes during Thanksgiving. Not only it is easy to make this favorite dish even saves space in the oven because it’s just a salad that you can keep cool in the fridge.  

    Hey, if you’re new here, welcome!  My name is Jenna and I love my air fryer! Plus, if you also follow the WW program most of my recipes will have the points added in the notes section. 

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    I lightened this dish up by replacing the sugar with a can of crushed pineapple which will help sweeten the cranberries up and using Cool Whip instead of heavy cream. The Instant vanilla pudding gives it even more flavor.  

    Looking for more salad recipes like this? Try Oreo Fluff, Orange Fluff, or Pumpkin Fluff Dip Recipe.

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    • What Ingredients do I need? 
    •  How to make Cranberry Fluff 
    • Other Recipes to Try 
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    • Cranberry Fluff Salad

    What Ingredients do I need? 

    • Cool Whip   - A frozen whipped topping that is found in the freezer section of the grocery store. I like it a lot because I’m lazy and don’t like beating heavy cream to making whipped cream. 😉 
    • Instant Vanilla Pudding - This is such a versatile ingredient to use in many desserts, I love them cause there’s so many flavors.  Just add in milk to the pudding. There are different sizes of pudding mix. The regular pudding mix are 3.4 oz and the sugar-free are 1oz. Both require the same amount of milk used. 
    • Raw Cranberries  - Use a food processor to finely chop them
    • Crushed Pineapple  - drained 
    • Marshmallows  - pre-cooked, and chopped. 
    • See the recipe card below for a full list of ingredients and measurements. 

     How to make Cranberry Fluff 

    Pulse the cranberries in a food processor until they look like the picture above the recipe. 

    Cranberries pulsed together in a food processor and mixed with pineapple.

    Combine chopped cranberries and pineapple and let it set in the refrigerator. 

    After 30 minutes, Add remaining ingredients.  

    Refrigerate and allow to stand overnight for flavors to develop.

    Makes about 10-12 servings, serving size: ½ cup. 

    Other Recipes to Try 

    3 Ingredient Cherry Sorbet 

    Oreo Ice Cream Cake 

    Oreo Fluff

    Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge 

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    Recipe FAQs

    How do you figure out points for recipes? 

    Nutrition info is calculated with the zero point food included in the recipe. If you’re using the nutrition info to figure out points it might not be the same as what the points are listed in the notes section. I use the recipe builder to calculate points. Myfitness pal for nutrition info. 

    Why am I still getting different points from what you have listed? 

    This could be quite a number of reasons and here are a few that I have come across. 

    Number of servings 

    Different brand used 

    Low-Fat vs Fat-Free ingredients

    Using the nutrition info calculator instead of the recipe builder  

    Other Recipes to Try

    • Salted Caramel Cold Brew (Starbucks Copy Cat)
    • French Onion Chicken
    • Bahama Mama
    • Creamy Grape Salad with Yogurt

    If you tried this Cranberry Fluff Salad orany other recipe on my website, please please leave a 🌟 star rating and let me know how you go in the 📝 comments below. I love hearing from you! Follow along on Tiktok @jennarecipediaries

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    Cranberry Fluff Salad


    • Author: Jenna
    • Prep Time: 5 min
    • Total Time: 5 min
    • Yield: 10 to 12 1x
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    Cranberry fluff is not your average salad and it has become a staple side dish at many homes during Thanksgiving. Not only it is easy to make this favorite dish even saves space in the oven because it’s just a salad that you can keep cool in the fridge.  


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    Ingredients

    • 1 8oz container of lite cool whip
    • 1 1oz container of sugar-free vanilla pudding mix
    • 2 c. raw cranberries, chopped
    • 1 ½ c. drained crushed pineapple
    • 1 cup miniature marshmallow

    Instructions

    1. Combine chopped cranberries and pineapple and let stand ½ hour. Add remaining ingredients and mix well.
    2. Refrigerate and allow to stand overnight for flavors to develop.
    3. Makes about 10-12 servings, serving size: ½ cup. 

    Notes

    myWW points: Blue 4; Green 4;  Purple 4

    My WW Personal Points: 5 Click here to see in recipe builder (will have to log in) 

    • Category: Easy
    • Method: Mix
    • Cuisine: American

    Nutrition

    • Serving Size: ½ cup
    • Calories: 67
    • Sugar: 7g
    • Sodium: 111mg
    • Fat: 1g
    • Saturated Fat: 1g
    • Carbohydrates: 15g
    • Fiber: 1g
    • Protein: 0g

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    Comments

    1. Jenna says

      December 29, 2022 at 1:41 pm

      That's fine as well. The sugar-free ones are 1 oz boxes I believe.

    2. Chloe Hoffman says

      December 29, 2022 at 1:36 pm

      I love this recipe! I cannot find 1oz box of vanilla pudding so I use one 3.4oz of vanilla pudding per batch. I also use coco whip to make this recipe diary free. And I use mandarin oranges too instead of pineapple

    3. Jenna says

      March 14, 2020 at 12:14 pm

      You don't need any sugar. I updated the post so it wasn't confusing.

    4. Hannah says

      March 14, 2020 at 11:56 am

      How much sugar should you add? Didn't see it listed in your recipe.

    5. brenda says

      March 31, 2018 at 9:19 am

      Love these freebies

    6. Jenna says

      November 26, 2015 at 3:48 pm

      Good to hear! It's one of my favorites. 🙂

    7. Sara says

      November 26, 2015 at 1:58 pm

      Delish! My go to cranberry salad from now on!

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