Crazy Great Gello Salad!! Reviewer are right: people who do Not like cranberry jello loove this salad!! Tip: used a large package of Raspberry Jello dissolved into warm cherry juice from canned cherries, adding water to make 2 cups. I used whole berry cranberry sauce as my family enjoys the fruit texture. However non-family members who are also smooth-cranberry-jello lovers slurped this up!! I also oven-roasted a cup of pecans a few minutes to crisp them up before cooling & adding to the salad. I then poured this into two separate 4-cup decorative molds (sprayed with PAM first to ease removal). After refrigerating overnight, this delicious gelatin salad unmolds onto a bed of greens looking like a magazine photo shoot!! Drizzled some sweet coleslaw dressing over all, sprinkled with a few more roasted pecans and plopped a dollop of whipped cream on top. Wowee Kazowie!! It was Gone in 30 minutes!! Thank you for a fabulous recipe!!

I spread whipped cream on top. It got rave refiews from everyone!

Yummy. Perfect for Thanksgiving, but could be made any time of year.

My family would give 10 stars if we could. I made this for Christmas Eve. I have been assigned the cranberry jello person for years. I have been making a different for years, but will now bring this one. Everyone has agreed this is the WINNER! I did follow the suggestion of "frosting" once it has set with: 8oz. softened cream cheese, 1c sour cream, 3/4c sugar and 1 tsp. vanilla. It was nice and firm and we cut it in squares. Thanks Sharon.

I played around with this recipe too much, but I am still impressed. Instead of using cherries, I tried to incorporate the bag of fresh cranberries I had lying around into a mixture that already had jellied sauce. This can be done without a hitch, but I somehow added twice the liquid after, so my poor salad turned out like applesauce. BUT! I decided to throw the mixture in the blender and freeze it, which turned out to be a lovely sorbet. It sort of tastes like wildberry and the consistency is soft due to the gelatin, I suppose. Good stuff!

This was really good! I left out the nuts. Instead of using it like a regular jello, I used it on top of the very popular strawberry pretzel jello. Instead of the traditional strawberry topping that goes on the pretzel jello, I used this topping instead for Christmas. It looked so pretty and festive and everyone loved it! Thanks!

My family loved this! We had it on Christmas Eve and everyone agreed it was a keeper. We made it without the nuts so it would be more kid friendly. No suggestions for improvement, it is great as is!!

This was very good! It was not like jello though. It looked like it would be able to be cut and served in chunks but when I went to serve it, it kind of gooyed on the plate. It was definitely more of like a cranberry sauce but sweet and really good! I will remember this one for Thanksgiving next year as a cranberry sauce side.

Well, I goofed the first time I made this recipe and used 1 3-oz. pkg. jello instead of 1 6-oz. pkg. However, my guests loved it as a sauce on their ham and thought it was a delicious mistake. The second time, I followed the recipe correctly and loved the firm jello, too. Great taste, color and texture! I left out the pecans since my family is not big on nuts.

This recipe is SO GOOD! I make this for the holidays using my Pampered Chef Fluted Pan for a pretty molded shape. I fill the center with sour cream and additional chopped pecans. DELISH!!

I added an extra package of unflavored gelatin and thought it got too hard. However, my husband LOVED it.

I made this for thanksgiving this year. I used whole cranberry sauce instead of jellied and cherries. I couldnt find cranberry jello as reviewers suggested, so I used the cherry as in the recipe. I also made the tangy cream cheese topping as suggested by a reviewer - this is what I think made the whole thing. If I hadnt made the cream cheese icing for it, I think it would have been just a plain cranberry salad - nothing spectacular. But people did like it w/ the cream cheese icing... may or may not make again.

I have made this salad for years. I am always looking to make things better. So, I was pleased to see my recipe here.

I don't like pineapple so I didn't try it. But my family liked it at Thanksgiving. It's a good alternative to plain jellied cranberry sauce.

Made as stated. Fantastic everyone loved it.

The salad was wonderful! Super easy to make. I just served it with Cool Whip. The true test was that my picky teenager loved.

I've made this for three family gatherings, and it's been a hit each time. Even those who don't care for jello salad love this once they try it. I serve it with the cream cheese/yogurt/sugar topping another reviewer suggested, and it comes out perfect.

What a delicious jello salad. Everyone loved it. I used two pkg. of sugar free cherry jello and just sprinkled chopped pecans on top. When I make it for Christmas this year I'll try the cranberry jello and whole cranberry sauce just for something different. Thanks for sharing a great recipe!

Super delicious. Even the family members who claim not to like cranberries no matter what you do to them liked it. I had to substitute pitted red tart cherries and added Splenda to sweeten them as my grocery store didn't have the sweet cherries. But it is delicious and even some of the small children liked it very well.

Beautiful color and all the flavor expected in a Jello-based salad. This was easy to prepare and tasty. I left the nuts out but they would add some nice texture.