This 4 ingredient Strawberry Fluff Salad (also called Pink Fluff) is a 5 minute, easy family favorite dessert recipe that's perfect for summer!
Have you had Pink Fluff? Or maybe you call it Strawberry Fluff Salad?
This fluffy pink strawberry dessert salad is a twist on a classic dessert my mom used to serve. We called it fluff salad or monster salad, it's a great dump and go dessert.
Ingredients
The four basic ingredients are cottage cheese, a packet of flavored Jello gelatin, canned or fresh fruit and cool whip.
For this Pink Strawberry Fluff Salad, I replaced the canned fruit she used with gorgeous fresh strawberries and they really add bites of tart, fresh fruit in the sweet creamy salad.
Ingredients
- whipped topping
- strawberry jell-o mix (this gives that beautiful pink color!)
- chopped fresh strawberries
- cottage cheese
Step by step
This is a classic 5 minute mix it and forget it recipe. You simply combine the ingredients in a large bowl, fold together to mix, then refrigerate until you are ready to serve!
Variations & Add-Ins
Fluff recipes are easy to switch up ingredients and customize to your own taste. Here are a few suggestions:
- add crushed pineapple
- add mini marshmallows
- replace cottage cheese with vanilla pudding
- add finely chopped nuts like pecans
- replace strawberries with cherry pie filling
- top with maraschino cherries
- stir in shredded coconut
- use raspberry jello instead of strawberry jello
FAQs
Since it is a no-bake dessert salad, you can easily make it a day before your event or dinner. Then, just give a stir and garnish each serving with a beautiful berry! I do not suggest making it more than one day in advance.
I do not recommend making this fluff with frozen berries as they can end up soggy and change the texture.
While I'm a huge fan of homemade whipped cream I do not recommend it for this recipe as the final texture isn't quite as "fluffy."
Yes! This recipe works great with low fat versions of either.
Yes, there are two variations on strawberry fluff floating around, the one below with a cottage cheese base, and another without cottage cheese using usually marshmallows, crushed pineapple, and vanilla pudding. I have not tried one I recommend yet but will update this post if I find a good one!
Ambrosia salad usually contains sweetened coconut, crushed pineapple, pecans, mandarin oranges, cool whip, and yogurt. Pink fluff is a more simple recipe that usually omits the nuts and uses only one fruit.
If you liked this Fluff Salad, here are a few more recipes that celebrate strawberries!
If you try this recipe please comment and rate it below, I love hearing from you!
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Pink Strawberry Fluff Salad
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Yield: 6 1x
- Category: dessert
- Method: none
- Cuisine: American
Description
This 4 ingredient Strawberry Fluff Salad is a 5 minute, easy dessert recipe that's perfect for summer!
Ingredients
- 24 oz. container cottage cheese
- 3.4 oz box strawberry gelatin
- 2-3 cups strawberries (cut into bite sized pieces)
- 8 oz. container refrigerated whipped topping (thawed)
Instructions
- In a large bowl, stir together the cottage cheese and the packet of strawberry gelatin. Make sure to stir well to dissolve all of the gelatin powder.
- Stir in the strawberries. You can add more or less depending on your preference, but I love to load this dessert salad with lots of strawberries!
- Finally, fold the whipped topping into the fruit and cottage cheese mixture.
- Refrigerate the Pink Strawberry Fluff Salad until serving and garnish with additional strawberries.
Keywords: strawberry fluff salad
Katie says
Oh this looks so good! I can't wait to try!
sarahbeth says
this was delicious, thank you!!
★★★★★
angel says
delicious!
★★★★★
Ashley mcdaniel says
Question how can I thicken this recipe up mine turned out a little runny... help
Melissa Riker says
I'm sorry it was runny, I've never had that happen, I can troubleshoot it though! Can you tell me if you did anything differently that the exact recipe? If not, was your cottage cheese runny before you added it? I've noticed some brands can have a thinner consistency than others.
Bertha mejia says
If I do not want cottage cheese and want to add vanilla pudding, do I add the powder only or make the pudding, then add it?
Melissa Riker says
I've never made it that way but you would probably need the pudding, I don't know what the result would be like because I have only ever used cottage cheese as written.
Cheryl Machuga says
I didn't care for it with cottage cheese in it not a big fan of it anyways. Can you freeze this?
Cheryl Machuga says
I didn't care for it with cottage cheese in it not a big fan of it anyways. Can you freeze this?
Jen says
it was a hit! thanks for all the delicious recipes!
★★★★★
Krista says
I have made this at least a half dozen times so far and find that the cottage cheese is everything in this recipe! I use sugar free gelatin, fat free cottage cheese, 2 cups of mini marshmallows and lite Cool Whip. I have found that fat free whipped topping just does not work and will cause it to be runny as another person has mentioned. I will probably live on this recipe all summer lol. So delicious, thank you!
★★★★★
Hailie says
I was nervous about the cottage cheese but WOW, this was awesome!
★★★★★
Davida Woodrun says
Can you freeze this?
Melissa Riker says
I do not recommend freezing this recipe, the texture would be different upon thawing.
Cindy Giauque says
I make this with orange jello and a large can of mandarin orange slices, drained. Sometimes I use two cans. It has been gone by dinners end every time I have made it! I always make a double batch.
*if you really don't like the texture of cottage cheese, try blending it smooth or use ricotta cheese.
Teri says
Can I use cream cheese instead of cottage cheese for this recipe