Fruit Salad Recipe-24 Hours Marshmallow Salad

Ensalada de Manzana con bombones 24 horas- 24 hours Apple and marshmallow salad

Since I can remember this delicious salad has been on my family's Christmas menu and has become everyone's favorite salad, because mostly is a dessert and has marshmallows!! Who does not like something with marshmallows? 

When we can't visit family during the Holidays I like to prepare this recipe and it really makes us feel closer to family, just by remembering all the stories behind this delicious treat! 

In this video I walk you through the process on how we make this salad and tell you some tips that will be very helpful for you.

I also love witnessing how recipes become a family tradition and how memories are linked to dishes as well.I know also that some families go through difficult times during the Holidays and just by preparing or enjoying a delicious treat can bring joy. 

This salad is also very versatile as you can add the canned  fruits of your choice, I have make it some years with just peaches, apples and marshmallows and it also turned out so delicious! 

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I have the recipe in Spanish here: Ensalada de bombones 24 horas

I really love watching my daughter prepare this recipe, she loves it and I am pretty sure that it will also become one of her favorite family dishes for the Holidays! 

Here is the recipe, enjoy! 

 

Fruit Salad-24 hours Prep time: 40 min Refrigerate for 24 hours Servings:12-14 Ingredients: • 14.5 oz mini marshmallows • 1 can (20 oz ) pineapple chunks • 1 can (29 oz) peach halves • 1 can ( 8.25 oz) mandarin-oranges • 4 lbs golden delicious or opal apples • 1 can (12oz) evaporated milk • 400g heavy whipping cream • 4 Tbsp de Mayonaise * 1/2 cup chopped pecans * 2 tbsp sugar Note: Prepare this salad 24 hours before serving 1.- Put the evaporated milk, heavy whipping cream, 2 mixing bowls and two wire whisks in the freezer for 20 min before you are going to start preparing this salad.  2.- Open the fruit cans and strain the fruit, saving the syrup  in a big bowl. 3.- Cut the fruit in 1-1/2 inches cubes. Peel and cut the apples in the same size pieces and submerge them in the syrup that you previously saved.   4.- While you are cutting the fruit, take out the bowls, whisk, milk and cream from the freezer and in separate bowls add the milk and start mixing increasing the speed to maximum for 5 minutes until soft peaks are formed. Make the same thing with cream until finer peaks are formed.  5.-- Strain the apples from the syrup and put them in a big bowl, add the other fruits, add the mayonnaise and mix until combine. Add the marshmallows, milk and the cream very slowly in folding movements, sprinkle the sugar and stir until everything is well combine. Add the pecans and  stir . 7.-- Cover the bowl and refrigerate for 24 hours. Enjoy! We normally prepare this recipe for Christmas Eve, it is everyone’s favorite and there are so many stories behind it. I bet each year their is a drama cause by it, too, because everybody claims that when they prepare it is the most delicious and the best one ever made, although we always follow the same recipe. I like to call this recipe a “team recipe” because you can invite your family members to help. It has several steps that are easy to do and even young kids can help. So many good memories cutting the big marshmallows with scissors, when we couldn’t find the little ones and breaking and peeling the pecans watching Christmas movies. We all have as reference my mom’s 24 hours marshmallow salad as the most delicious one ever made and although we all try to make it following the same recipe, non of them are going to be as delicious and fluffy as my mom’s. Fruit salad-Marshmallow- apple salad-24 hours salad-marshmallow salad-ensalada de bombones 24 horas