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When I married my husband, I got an extra set of grandparents in the process. Granddaddy and GrandMartha became as close to me as my own Nana and Papa. We visited them all the time, since they lived in our home state, and I had the great pleasure of being served Granddaddy’s lasagna and fig preserves from the man himself. Likewise, I also got to devour GrandMartha’s cheesy broccoli casserole, famous coconut cake, and her lightly sweetened frozen fruit salad. A complete misnomer, the frozen fruit salad recipe really has nothing green in it, but instead, takes its name from the mid-century when fruity concoctions mixed together in a salad-like way. This desserty, frozen snack really hits the spot on a hot day, and stores easily in single servings in the freezer. Make sure you use an airtight container to keep them tasty!
For years, GrandMartha would use paper muffin cups to serve the dish, and a handful of years ago, she got a silicone muffin pan shaped like roses, which made these frozen fruit salads into the prettiest little dishes! I own a bunch of silicone baking cups, so I simply pulled them out of storage and into my meal preparation.
The fruit mix comes together very quickly, and if you do all your chopping up front, the assembly is simply a bunch of stirring! I used my new Rubbermaid BRILLIANCE little containers to hold my pre-measured and chopped ingredients. Watch the video to see a Tasty-style speed video of the recipe in action. The full recipe is below!
When you’re ready to chill the salad, place the silicone cups in the freezer for about three hours until they are set. You can store extras in an airtight container, such as Rubbermaid storage containers like those from the Rubbermaid BRILLIANCE collection. The food storage containers are air and liquid-tight to prevent spills, and that same air-tight quality means the frozen fruit salads don’t get frost bitten, don’t start to mildly evaporate, and stay flavorful until you are ready to eat them! I’ll also take a small container to neighbors as a summer snack, but I’m always sure to tell my friends to stick them straight into the freezer since the mixture thaws easily.
I love my new containers from Rubbermaid Brilliance because I can let the beauty of the fruit, garnish and baking cups shine straight through. No more wondering what mysterious freezer treats are lurking in containers. The BPA-free modular design lets me stack and organize my frozen fruit salad snacks as well as my dinner leftovers, making storage more efficient.
When those cool little cups come out of the freezer at GrandMartha’s house, I get so excited! She may have shared the frozen fruit salad recipe so I can make them myself, but she’ll always make it better than I do. Thanks, GrandMartha, for sharing this little part of you with me. I love you!
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Thanks to Rubbermaid BRILLIANCE and She Speaks, I’m able to give away a 10 piece set for you to prep dinner, pack lunch or store leftovers. Feed your family well and stay cool for the summer with your own frozen fruit salad. Enter using the Rafflecopter below.
These look so tasty. Please tell me why I don’t like bananas!
My favorite left overs would have to be stuffed cabbage rolls.
I like leftover lasagna or spaghetti.
I like salad leftovers.
My favorite leftovers are soup! The flavors always get better with time.
I love tacos leftovers…can use to make more delish tacos, or a taco salad or an egg scramble….
Spaghetti and home made chili are my favorite overs!
veggie lasagna is my favorite leftover
Lasagne would have to be mine. It tastes so much better the next day!
Salad leftovers. Frozen Fruit Salad looks yum.
My favorite leftover is fruit salad…yummy!
My favorite leftovers is lasagna, so good the next day!
I like leftover chili, meatloaf, pasta.
These would be a BIG hit in my house. My oldest loves anything with fruit. And seriously, how cute are those little cups?
Thank you! I love them for making lots of treats and lunchboxes.
I normally don’t get into fruit salad that much, but my husband loves it. However, I’m totally on board with this! I’ll have to try it sometime.
My aunts just made fruit salad ur not like this. It seems like such a cool recipe and your story about your grand in laws sounds amazing. I might have to surprise my family with this and love the silicon holder idea.
I love fruit salads, they make a great snack and a meal! I think freezing food makes you to keep the food in a longer period of time. Also super easy when you want to eat it again.
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They sound very interesting with sour cream in them. I don’t know if I could eat them as I am not a huge fan of sour cream, I would probably substitute the sour cream for something else like yogurt or a whipped cream .
Oh that looks so good! I love anything with fruit this time of year! Perfect for summer!
What a clever idea! I’m definitely keen to try them because I love all things fruit! I just made a banana strawberry frozen yoghurt last week and it was so good
What cool containers. I like the sound of a frozen fruit salad and the grandparents cheesy broccoli dish sounds real good too x
I love this! Looks tasty! I love lasagna as leftovers. Soups too and other casserole type dishes.
That frozen fruit salad looks delicious! Those containers seem really great as well. I like doing a bit of meal prep so something like these would be perfect for that.
I love fruits and it would be so nice to make this for the family for the summer as well. It’s refreshing and it’s healthy, what more can you ask for, right?
I feel so lucky that my kids all got my love for fruits. This is definitely a treat that our whole family will enjoy and I can’t wait to try the recipe!
Oh wow! These look absolutely delicious! I love fruit salad at events so I know this is going to be really good! I can’t wait to try it!
That frozen treat looks great and I love blueberries. The Brilliance containers work so well and you can see everything so well through them.
This is a delicious recipe that also looks easy to make with no hassle!
This looks so good! How perfect for summer, love it! I eat fruit like nothing else in the summer.
Best,
Rebecca
This looks like such a fresh and refreshing dessert to enjoy during the warm weather months. I am going to have to make these for the Fourth of July.
As a kid I used to put grapes or fruit cocktail in freezer. It was a great treat in the hot summer. This recipe looks so delicious, can’t wait to try it out.
Oh my gosh – these are so super cute! I want to get a set of these for my house! And this recipe sounds delicious!