Carol Richardson’s Excellent Fruit Salad/Dessert

· 1 Qt Buttermilk
· 1 (6 oz) package of instant vanilla pudding mix
· 1 (12 or 16 oz) tub of cool whip (either size works, use more or less depending on how many you’re serving!)
· 3 cups of frozen fruit (easiest is Costco’s frozen triple berry mix – blueberries, strawberries and …some other kind of berry, but any small frozen fruit will work)

Pour the buttermilk into a large bowl. Add pudding mix and whisk or blend until thick. Add cool whip and more gently blend it in. About ½ hour before serving, fold in frozen fruit.

Keep refrigerated. You can use the buttermilk/pudding/cool whip part of this recipe as a fruit dip and serve fresh fruit separately. Before you add in the fruit, the pudding part can last for a few days and be tasty. After you add the fruit, the salad will need to be eaten within a day or so. It doesn’t save very well. You can make this salad early waiting to fold in the fruit until you’re ready to serve.

From Salad Night Enrichment July 2010
(Lynn Pack)