Fruit Salad

Lil 'Red
makes
Ascension
Ambrosia

Ascension Ambrosia
Ingredients:

3/4 cup orange juice, fresh squeezed.
6 oranges, peeled, deseeded, quartered.
(Satsuma) can be used.

1/4 cup Maraschino cherries, quartered

1 cup seedless, red grapes, halved

1/2 cup sweetened, flaked coconut

2 Granny Smith Apples, peeled, cored and chopped.

1 cup chopped pecans

1 (20) ounce
can of chunk pineapple, in heavy syrup, drained, reserve juice.

2 tablespoons powdered sugar.

1 firm banana

Whisk together in a large glass bowl the reserved pineapple juice, orange juice, and powdered sugar. Add cored, peeled, and sectioned fruit to this mixture, coating well after each addition. Do NOT add Bananas yet.

Cover the fruit mixture, and refrigerate until chilled for about two hours. Just before serving slice the banana into mixture and fold into syrup from chilled fruit.

Spoon into chilled dessert glasses; top with sprinkled coconut, whipped cream, and place a cherry on top.
Optional mini marshmallows can be added. Serve.