How To Make Glorified Rice – An Easy To Make Dessert Salad

Glorified Rice is an old fashioned dessert salad consisting of white rice, mini marshmallows, pineapple, maraschino cherries and Cool Whip. Served cold, this vintage recipe is perfect for summer.

Just when I thought I had made every type of old fashioned cold dessert salad recipe on the face of the Earth, my friend Janie surprised me with her family recipe.

Old Fashioned Glorified Rice

I’ve added almost everything you can think of to create a Cool Whip Salad, including pretzels, Jell-O, marshmallows, Oreos, canned pie filling, Red Hot candy, cottage cheese, canned fruit, etc., yet I had never made one with cooked rice in it before.

I was flipping through Janie’s family cookbook when I stumbled upon the name Glorified Rice. It immediately grabbed my attention for the uniqueness of the name. I’ve seen rice pudding recipes, but never had I seen this recipe before.

Glorified Rice is essentially a cold, dessert salad, similar to an ambrosia except it has cooked, cooled rice in it.

What’s in Glorified Rice?

Ingredient List

• Cooked white rice (cooled to room temperature)
• Sugar
• Vanilla
• Mini Marshmallows
• Crushed Pineapple, drained
• Cool Whip or Heavy Whipping Cream (whipped)
• Maraschino Cherries, drained and chopped

What type of rice is best to make Glorified Rice Salad?

Use a plain, white rice to make Glorified Rice. Instant (minute) rice or long grain, white rice both work; just be sure to cook the white rice according to package instructions and let cool before making the salad.

Glorified Rice Salad is also the perfect recipe to use up leftover white rice in the refrigerator.

How to Make Glorified Rice Salad

Step By Step Instructions

1. Drain crushed pineapple.
2. Combine cooked rice, sugar, pineapple, and vanilla extract in a medium bowl.
3. Stir in mini marshmallows and maraschino cherries into the rice mixture.
4. Fold in Cool Whip.
5. Chill until ready to serve.

Storage Instructions

Store in an airtight container or in a bowl with a tight fitting lid in the refrigerator for 3 to 4 days.

For the full instructions and ingredient list for glorified rice with Cool Whip, scroll to the recipe card at the bottom of this post.

Recipe FAQs

• Use cooked white rice; either long grain or minute rice is fine.
• This is a great way to use leftover cooked white rice!
• To make this pretty and colorful, use colored mini marshmallows.
• Be sure to drain the crushed pineapple before adding to the rice salad.  Save the pineapple juice for a fun cocktail such as Amaretto Pina Coladas.
• Drain the juices from the maraschino cherries before adding to the salad.
• Either Cool Whip (whipped topping) or homemade whipped topping from heavy whipping cream can be used in this rice salad dessert. If making homemade, whip in a large bowl until stiff peaks form.
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Vintage Dessert Salad Recipes

Old Fashioned dessert salads are totally retro cool in our humble opinions. Check out our top ten favorite cold, dessert salad recipes.

1. Classic Ambrosia
2. Strawberry Delight
3. Watergate Salad
4. Red Hot Fluff
5. Lazy Daisy Salad
6. Orange Jello Salad
7. Pink Lady Salad
8. Oreo Fluff
9. Pretzel Salad
10. Grandma’s Cherry Fluff

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