I used sugar-free regular cherry jell-o because the store I shop at didn't have black cherry jell-o. I also used tart cherries & Cherry Coke & half the nuts the recipe calls for as others have suggested. I made it in my Tupperware jell-o mold & it turned perfect. Everyone loved it. I think I will experiment using cranberry jell-o for Thanksgiving & maybe try it with orange jell-o Sprite & mandarin oranges in place of the cherries for a citrus salad.
Really good. It's a nice gelatin mold for Thanksgiving or Christmas because it has a deep dark reddish color. The cherries and pineapple make a tasty blend.
I knew my Mom had used this recipe several times to carry to potlucks and it was always big success for her. I needed to fix a nice congealed salad for a large dinner at my church. This is the one I used. I scaled the recipe for 16 people and used a 9x13 pan. I did as suggested in other reviews and used less pecans. It turned out great!
This was super-easy. Even using sugar-free gelatin and diet cola it tasted good. The gelatin seemed really firm to me though--is it really supposed to be a 6-oz box of gelatin?
Very yummy. Now everyone wants the recipe! We made it with bing cherries in syrup but next time I will try cherries in water b/c it seemed a tad sweet to me. But everyone else thought it was fabulous. Will absolutely make again!
This with the addition of one package of cream cheese coarsely chopped has been a tradition at our Christmas table for many years. It's so good! And here I was thinking it was a secret family recipe!:)
My family did not much care for this one- had to really encourage them to taste it and they are not picky. We all agreed to the nuts (even cut in half) were very overwhelming. I guess we have to keep shopping.
This was very very good. Following other reviewers suggestions I chopped up the cherries. I also used a 3 oz pkg of Black Cherry Jello and a 3 oz pkg of Cherry because that's all I had - it turned out well. I also omitted the nuts because we don't care for them and it was delicious! Thanks for the recipe!
This is a delicious dessert. You wouldn't think that a recipe with so few items could be so good...but believe me it is. We only had 1/2 cup of pecans available and even for someone who loves nuts pecans especially they were plenty.
