Great-Grandma's Frozen Fruit Salad - Cooking With Carlee (2024)

Frozen fruit salad is a blast from the past. This vintage recipe is a cool and delicious way to eat your fruit. It is at home at all of our holiday meals, but would also be a fun summer side dish!

This vintage recipe comes straight from my great-grandma’s recipe box. It is a fun twist on marshmallow fruit salad, but even more fun because it is frozen!

It is perfect for holidays or as a refreshing summer side dish. Frozen fruit salad could even be a light dessert.

This recipe is still a staple at my family holidays. My Aunt Jenny usually makes it now and it is present at every Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

I have a handful of recipes from my Great-Grandma, so I was going through them trying to decide which one I should make first.

When I got to this one, I knew I had to make it. I am familiar with a few of the others, but this one is still a tradition!

Though the combination might seem a little odd these days, it really isn’t that much different than fluff salads or creamy fruit salads. It just has the added bonus of being frozen!

I love trying vintage recipes like this, don’t you? It’s like taking a little step back in time, right into the kitchen of a loved one.

I think my great-grandma must have come to age in a time of fruity dishes like this, because another favorite from her recipe box was the green Jello salad that is loaded with pineapple and cream cheese. There is definitely a nostalgia to both recipes.

My great grandma wasn’t only known for her fruity side dishes though. She also made delicious cookies.

I have shared her peanut butter cookies as well as her oatmeal raisin step-on cookies. Both should be on your list of recipes to make soon.

Great-grandma wasn’t the only good cook, her mom is the one that brought us dutch apple cake. I put a spin on that recipe to make our favorite peach breakfast cake.

All of my great-grandma’s made great food. You can search “great-grandma” in the search bar (in the side bar on desktop or down below the comments on mobile.) You will find loads of great classic recipes.

Here are some suggestions:

Great-grandma’s scalloped cornis a classic side dish. It is made from super simple ingredients but it really is delicious!

Great-grandma’s apple crispis actually a quite healthy treat. It is a great way to turn apples into something extra fun.

Great-grandma’s egg noodlesare a Thanksgiving must have for our family. However we also use them to make chicken and noodles a couple of times throughout the year.

Or try making an old fashioned frog eye salad. It is another fun twist on a fruit salad with a creamy custard base and teeny balls of pasta.

When and how do you serve frozen fruit salad?

My family always serves frozen fruit salad as a side dish at holiday dinners. It is a small way to have great grandma there with us and part of the tradition.

Frozen fruit salad would be perfect side dish for a summer BBQ as well. It would be such a refreshing addition to the menu.

Serve frozen fruit salad as a light fruity dessert. It’s a great make ahead and you can grab a piece whenever you want it.

For an extra fun twist on frozen fruit salad, freeze it in a cupcake tin. Then it’s single serve and the perfect way to have a piece whenever you want!