Frozen Cranberry Banana Salads
Today I’m sharing a recipe that is the darling of Southern Tea Rooms… Frozen Cranberry Salad with Banana. It’s Creamy, fruity, light tasting and just the right size for serving.
In the south, our tea rooms have a relaxed and bright atmosphere. They are filled with smiling ladies gathered together for a special treat of girl time – away from kids, husbands and demands of home. Plates are filled with an assortment of salads: potato, vegetable, pea, macaroni, and chicken or ham usually served inside a fresh buttery croissant. Tea is still drank over ice, served in special stemmed “iced tea” glasses. *Note: We don’t say “drunk” but “drank”. Both are grammatically acceptable but where I’m from the latter denotes being a little loopy with liquor.
While the salads vary by tearoom, I have personally never been to one which did not serve a frozen cranberry salad such as this. Creamy, fruity, light tasting and just the right size when prepared in a little muffin paper, this is the quintessential tearoom must have and a very special treat to enjoy at home.
This recipe came from my husband’s grandmother, Granny Jordan. She was the embodiment of everything a southern lady should be. Anytime guests happened by, she was always prepared with a warm welcome and plenty of southern hospitality thanks to these little delights.
Once you make them, simply remove the muffin papers from your tins, pop them into Ziploc freezer bags and have an instant company worthy dessert or special treat for yourself anytime!
As always, the entire recipe is at the bottom of the page. You will need sour cream, sugar, whipped topping, crushed pineapple, two cans of whole berry cranberry sauce, and four bananas. *You can use light cool whip, light sour cream, and even a different sweetener if you prefer.
Drain pineapple and mash bananas with a fork. Place all ingredients in a large mixing bowl and stir until fully combined and incorporated. (Hint: I use my potato masher or a fork to help break up the cranberry sauce.)
Line a muffin tin with muffin papers.
Divide the mixture evenly among the muffin papers and freeze, uncovered, until fully frozen.
Remove frozen salads from muffin tin and place in zipper seal bag and return to the freezer. This recipe usually makes about two dozen but it depends on how much you put into each muffin paper.
Enjoy having this wonderful little treat on hand whenever the your taste buds want one!
Ingredients
- 1 lg can 20 oz well drained crushed pineapple
- 16 ounces sour cream
- 1- 9 ounce cool whip
- 4 mashed bananas
- ½ cup sugar
- 1 cup nuts optional, I don't use them
- 2 cans whole cranberry sauce make sure you get whole
Instructions
- Mix all ingredients well and spoon into cupcake papers placed in a muffin pan. Freeze. When frozen, remove from muffin pan and place in Ziploc bag.
Nutrition
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~ Catherine Pulsifer
Do you put the salads in the freezer WITH the paper cups still on them?
Yes. Then when frozen I just take them out of the muffin tins, still in papers, and put them in zipper bags to return to freezer until ready to eat. 🙂
Can the pineapple be omitted in this recipe, or what could be substituted? We don’t care for pineapples.
Just leave it out and they will be great! 🙂
My Mama has an old family recipe that is very similar to this! It’s one of my favorites and she always brings it out at Thanksgiving!
Christy, saw your new cookbook iat Sam’s Club in NC today! You should sell bunches there! Good Luck.
Christy,
I can’t believe I’ve never had a version of this frozen salad! It looks great and I’m definitely going to try it.
Love your website and looking forward to getting your book and seeing you in Houston!
Do u have a easier way to copy your recipes…would like granny chicken casserole and the cranberry salad thanks…
Hey Marline! I sure do! Visit my FAQ page and it’s the first thing I talk about. I also send out printer friendly versions of some recipes from time to time to email subscribers but the FAQ answer is gonna open up a whole other world for you on the internet, neatest thing !
Gratefully,
Christy
Good Morning!
I stumbled across this website quite by accident and I am thrilled! I joined up immediately. The recipes so far appear to be right up my alley, I can’t wait to start cooking. One question though – is there any way I can print just the recipe from my computer, instead of the entire (20+) pages? Thanks!
Beth aka dawgsmama
Hey Beth! I’m so thrilled to have you here, thank you!!!
Absolutely, you can print just the recipe. See my FAQ page here,
southernplatecom.bigscoots-staging.com/faq for instructions. It’s the first question I answer on there!
I hope this helps! Thank you so much!
Gratefully,
Christy 🙂
Any recipe from a ‘Granny’ has my attention-so…they’ll be on my list to try