Do you know of a cranberry sauce recipe with maraschino cherries?


It’s one of those molded gelatin things, but it’s designed to serve with Thanksgiving dinner:

Frosty Cherry Cranberry Mold Recipe

8 Oz. Jar Red Maraschino Cherries
1 Small Pkg. Cherry Flavored Gelatin
1 Lb. Can Jellied Cranberry Sauce
4 Tbs. Lemon Juice
1 Cup Heavy Cream
3 Tbs. Sugar
1/4 .Tsp. Grated Lemon Peel
1/3 Cup Salad Dressing or Mayonnaise
1/3 Cup Chopped Walnuts
Water

How to make Frosty Cherry Cranberry Mold:

Drain cherries, reserving syrup; chop the cherries & set aside.

Add enough water to cherry syrup to measure 1 1/2 cups.

Heat to boiling.

Remove from heat and immediately dissolve gelatin in hot mixture.

Add cranberry sauce and 3 tbs.lemon juice.

Beat slowly with rotary beater until well blended.

Chill until slightly thickened.

Fold in chopped cherries.

Turn into lightlyoiled 6 cup mold.

Freeze until firm.

Whip cream with sugar and lemon peel until stiff.

Fold in remaining 1 tbs.lemon juice, salad dressing or mayonnaise and walnuts.

Spread over frozen cherry layer, freeze until firm.

Unmold onto salad greens, garnish with fresh mint and additional cherries, if desired.

This is great with Thanksgiving dinner

Michele | Nov 14, 2009



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