Ambrosia

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Some kinda delicious. I admit I *was* planning to use the coconut in the bag, not to mention store-bought marshmallows and canned mandarin oranges and pineapples. But the video made me feel guilty, and I did the entire thing fresh, cracking my own coconut and everything. Now I am thinking the pre-shredded coconut is the reason I've never liked ambrosia. This stuff is fantastic. The marshmallows really make it -- they melt in your mouth. I actually was not crazy about the pecans in there.
The whole thing is a big, time-consuming production, for sure. I made it for my son's Percy Jackson-themed birthday party and was glad I put in the effort. It's finally ambrosia worth eating.

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This is the best ambrosia I've ever had. If you, like me, thought that making marshmallows was "overboard"- let me leave you with these thoughts. 1 The marshmallows are easy to make. They take time to boil and whip and dry. But none of that is hard. 2 The homemade marshmallows, besides just being a superior flavor, "melt" into the salad in a way that no store bought version can do. THAT makes all the difference in the flavor of this salad. Whereas most ambrosia salads taste like fruit with very cloyingly sweet pops of marshmallows, this version tastes like fruit with this lovely frothy dressing- which is really the dressing mixing with the marshmallows. 3 Alton's marshmallow recipe makes more than you need for this salad, so either plan to make this salad multiple times or use the extra marshmallows for snacking and impressing your friends. Overall, this is one of Alton's best recipes

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The recipe was pretty simple--I doubled it for Easter dinner, and everyone loved it. The only draw back was it took me over 40 minutes to get the cream to get thick enough. I almost gave up on it.

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I made this today to go with Easter dinner and it came out wonderful! I am usually not a fan of ambrosia but this salad was so much better than the ones I've had before. I was in a hurry, so I used store bought marshmallows and coconut and canned mandarin oranges and pineapple. I made sure to drain the oranges and pineapple well and I also added fresh strawberries and seedless red grapes, quartered. I think you can add whatever fruit you like to this recipe. I used candied pecans which I already had on hand. Perfect recipe! Thank you, Alton!

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I made this recipe today and it turned out great thanks Alton, you're the best.

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Easy and amazing - it turned out perfect and was a huge hit at my party.

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Awesome! So much better thsn cool whip recipes..

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Perfection!

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I added chopped walnuts to this recipe and there was nothing left for seconds.

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This is, by far, the best fruit salad I have ever made. The dressing is the key to this outstanding recipe; it's not overly sweet and allows whatever fruit you use to be the hightlight of the dish. I used canned mandarin oranges & pineapple, fresh red grapes & apples, marachino cherries, and sweetened flake coconut as my fruit. This will be my go-to recipe for fruit salad from now on!