My Fruit Salad- It's Amazing!

• 1 box Large jello vanilla instant pudding DRY mix
• 1 can Diced Pears-drained
• 1 can Diced peaches-drained
• 1 can Diced pineapples-reserve some juice- the ones that come in pineapple juice NOT heavy syrup
• 1 jar no stem maraschino cherries-reserve juice and slice them in half
• 3 small cool whip containers
• 1 cup as needed Graham cracker crumbs- you can do more or less
• 1 can Fruit cocktail- pick out the pears because they are hard! And use the regular can of pears above all drained
• 1 Optional: crushed pecans, raisins, etc I don't use but you may like..I use the crushed Graham crackers instead- so much better
• 1/2 box Optional: you can use a little cream cheese mixed with a small box of vanilla pudding dry mix and marshmallow cream also, if you want I didn't use this time.
• 1 See tip 4 and 5 in directions
• 1/2 cup Marshmallow cream (if you are using cream cheese)

1. Mix the cool whips, and large box of vanilla pudding mix together.
2. Then add-some of the cherry and pineapple juices to the CW/Pudding mix, and stir.
3. Then add the graham cracker pieces, then add the can fruits.
4. Mix it all up.
5. Cover, and let it sit in fridge overnight.
6. ( the longer it sits in fridge, the better it is:)
7. Tip: the fruit cocktail, I pick out the hard pears and toss them.
8. And replace with a can of pears...they are so much softer than the ones that come in the cocktail.
9. Also, if you are going to use any cream cheese which is optional(I didn't use it in this recipe this time.
10. Mix it first, with another box of vanilla instant dry mix pudding.
11. Or add a little sugar instead.
12. But the large box of vanilla pudding dry mix goes with the cool whips.
13. Another tip: you can also add sliced bananas.
14. But i recommend only to add them to your actual serving the day of!
15. Not in the bowl of the whole mix.
16. You can also add other fruits like mandarin, strawberries, granola if you don't like graham crackers.

vanilla instant pudding, peaches, pineapples, maraschino cherries, cool whip containers, graham cracker, regular, pecans, cream cheese, directions, marshmallow cream

Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/358560-my-fruit-salad-its-amazing (may not work)