You’ll start a whole new family tradition… serve cranberry candles as your salad
Who’d dream a salad so impressive could be so easy to make! The delicate creaminess and fresh flavor of Hellmann’s Real Mayonnaise make it possible.
Smooth, light Hellmann’s mellows the tart cranberries to create a holiday salad with elegant new flavor — in an elegant new candle shape. Serve it once. . . and you’ll be asked to serve it again and again.
Ingredients for these cranberry candles
1 1-pound can Ocean Spray Whole Cranberry Sauce
1 3-ounce package red, yellow or orange fruit-flavored gelatin
1 cup boiling water
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/2 cup Hellmann’s Real Mayonnaise
1 apple or orange, peeled and diced
1/4 cup chopped walnuts
Directions
Heat cranberry sauce, strain, set berries aside. Dissolve gelatin in hot Juice and water. Add salt and lemon juice.
Chill until thickened enough to mound slightly when dropped from a spoon.
Beat in real mayonnaise with rotary beater till light and fluffy. Fold in cranberries, fruit and nuts. Divide mixture evenly into eight 6-ounce fruit juice cans. Chill 4 hours or longer. Unmold. Garnish with real mayonnaise to taste.
To flame: Cut thin birthday candles in half to shorten. Insert into tops of cranberry candles. Light.
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Cranberry candles light up with real mayonnaise… Best Foods
What a glamorous, exciting, romantic idea! Light ‘n luscious cranberry candle salads to light up your holiday table. They taste as elegant as they look, and they’re a snap to make with real mayonnaise…
Only Best Foods has the texture to make holiday dazzlers like these. Try ’em. You’ll really set the world on fire.
Ingredients
One 1-pound can whole cranberry sauce
1 cup boiling water
1 (3 ounce) package strawberry-flavor gelatin
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup Best Foods mayonnaise
1 apple, diced, 1/4 cup walnuts
How to make these cranberry candles
Heat cranberry sauce; strain. Mix liquid, boiling water and gelatin, stirring until completely dissolved. Add lemon juice and salt. Chill mixture until slightly thickened. Add mayonnaise; beat with a rotary beater until fluffy. Fold in reserved cranberries, apple and nuts. Stir and chill until slightly thickened.
Fill sauce can 3/4 full for largest candle. Spoon remaining mixture into assorted cans or glasses. Chill until firm. Insert birthday candle halves into unmolded candles. Makes 6 servings.
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