Overnight Fruit Salad

Total Time: 24 hrs 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 24 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 2 large eggs, beaten
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 2 tablespoons lemon juice
• 2 tablespoons reserved pineapple juice (see below)
• 1 tablespoon margarine or 1 tablespoon butter
• 1 dash salt
• 3/4 cup heavy whipping cream
• 1 (16 1/2 ounce) can pitted royal anne or queen anne sweet cherries, drained (i prefer two cans)
• 2 (15 1/4 ounce) cans pineapple chunks in juice, drained (reserve juice)
• 2 tablespoons pineapple juice, reserved from the pineapple
• 2 (11 ounce) cans mandarin orange segments, drained
• 1 cup miniature marshmallow (or one bag)
• 1 sliced banana, to taste (optional)
• 1 cup nuts, coarsely chopped, depending on whether you like the crunch of nuts in your fruit salad (mixed in or sprinkled on top) (optional)
• 1 cup maraschino cherry, to taste, for garnish, pretty sprinkled over the top since this is a very -looking dish (optional)

Recipe

• 1 prepare cooked dressing:.
• 2 heat first 6 ingredients just to boiling in 1-quart saucepan over medium heat, stirring constantly.
• 3 let it cool while you beat the whipping cream.
• 4 beat whipping cream in chilled medium bowl with electric mixer on high speed until it's stiff.
• 5 fold a spoonful of the cooled egg mixture into into the whipped cream.
• 6 fold the rest of the cooled egg mixture into the whipped cream.
• 7 if you add the hot egg mixture all at once into the whipped cream, it will curdle; trust me on this.
• 8 add fruit& nuts to the dressing.
• 9 refrigerate at least 12 hours to blend flavors.
• 10 garnish with maraschino cherries.
• 11 garnish with nuts if you choose to use the nuts as a garnish rather than an ingredient, or both as i do.