Dessert salads are dishes made with jello

Jello

Jello may refer to:* Jello Shoecompany, an Austrian shoe retailer* Jell-O, a brand name for gelatin desserts* A genericized brand for gelatin desserts in general* Sphyraena jello the pickhandle barracuda-People:...

s, whipped topping

Whipped topping

Whipped topping is imitation whipped cream. Like other ersatz products, there are various reasons for using an imitation:* To exclude dairy ingredients to avoid milk allergies.* To support food taboos such as veganism or kosher meat and milk rules....

s, fruits, vegetables, mayonnaise

Mayonnaise

Mayonnaise, , often abbreviated as mayo, is a sauce. It is a stable emulsion of oil, egg yolk and either vinegar or lemon juice, with many options for embellishment with other herbs and spices. Lecithin in the egg yolk is the emulsifier. Mayonnaise varies in color but is often white, cream, or pale...

, and various other ingredients. These salad

Salad

Salad is any of a wide variety of dishes, including vegetable salads; salads of pasta, legumes, eggs, or grains; mixed salads incorporating meat, poultry, or seafood; and fruit salads. They may include a mixture of cold and hot, often including raw vegetables or fruits.Green salads include leaf...

s are served at some buffet

Buffet

A buffet is a system of serving meals in which food is placed in a public area where the diners generally serve themselves. Buffets are offered at various places including hotels and many social events...

 and cafeteria

Cafeteria

A cafeteria is a type of food service location in which there is little or no waiting staff table service, whether a restaurant or within an institution such as a large office building or school; a school dining location is also referred to as a dining hall or canteen...

s, and are also served at potluck

Potluck

A potluck is a gathering of people where each person or group of people contributes a dish of food prepared by the person or the group of people, to be shared among the group...

s and parties. They can be prepared ahead of time and are transportable. They include sweet ingredients, but are not always served as dessert

Dessert

In cultures around the world, dessert is a course that typically comes at the end of a meal, usually consisting of sweet food. The word comes from the French language as dessert and this from Old French desservir, "to clear the table" and "to serve." Common Western desserts include cakes, biscuits,...

s, and are sometimes considered more generally in the salad grouping and served with the main meal rather than as a dessert. The fruit and vegetable ingredients are often canned, but fresh ingredients can also be used.

List of dessert salads

• Jello salad
  Jello salad
  Jell-O salad, also called gelatin salad, jelly salad, and congealed salad is the common name for salad made with flavored gelatin, fruit and sometimes grated carrots or, more rarely, other vegetables...
  
  
• Glorified rice
  Glorified rice
  Glorified rice is a dessert salad served in Minnesota and other states in the Upper Midwest. It is popular in more rural areas with sizable Lutheran populations of Scandinavian heritage. It is made from rice, crushed pineapple, and whipped cream. It is often decorated with maraschino...
  
  
• Seafoam salad
  Seafoam Salad
  Seafoam salad, also known as orange salad, is a cafeteria and buffet staple popularized by F. W. Woolworth's lunch counters. Seafoam salad is often considered a dessert and is one of many dessert salads. It is composed of green gelatin, cream cheese, pears, maraschino cherries and whipped cream...
  
  
• Snickers salad
  Snickers salad
  Snickers salad is a mix of Snickers bars, Granny Smith apples, whipped cream and often pudding or whipped topping served in a bowl. It is a potluck and party staple in some parts of the Midwest of the United States, where the "salad" is popular alongside glorified rice, pistachio salad, jello salad...
  
  
• Watergate salad
  Watergate salad
  Watergate salad, also referred to as Pistachio Delight, is a sweet-tasting dessert salad made from pistachio pudding, canned pineapple, and Cool Whip, and marshmallows. It is very quick to prepare: the ingredients are combined and it can be chilled, if desired.The canned fruit used is usually...
  
   (Pistachio salad)
• Ambrosia (fruit salad)
  Ambrosia (fruit salad)
  Ambrosia is a variation on the traditional fruit salad. It contains sweetened whipped cream , sour cream, or with less calorie yogurt, pineapple, mandarin oranges, miniature marshmallows and coconut. Some versions also contain maraschino cherries, bananas, strawberries, also crushed pecans can...
  
  
• Cookie salad
  Cookie salad
  Cookie salad is a dessert salad from the U.S. state of Minnesota made with buttermilk, vanilla pudding, Cool Whip, mandarin oranges, and fudge stripe shortbread cookies. It is popular with children and for potlucks. Berries can also be added.-See also:...
  
  
• Strawberry Delight
  Strawberry Delight
  *For the candy see Quality Street Strawberry Delight is a dessert salad found in the United States, especially in the South and more rural areas of Minnesota. Strawberry Delight is made from milk, whipped topping, cream cheese, strawberries and strawberry gelatin over a crust made from graham...