How To Make Strawberry Delight – A No Bake Recipe That’s Easy To Make

Strawberry Delight is a simply delicious dessert with only five ingredients. This no bake strawberry dessert recipe is easy to make yet always a crowd-pleaser. This vintage Cool Whip dessert is also often called strawberry fluff.

Easy Strawberry Dessert

I love family recipes, and this easy strawberry dessert is no exception. Aunt Terri included this no bake Cool Whip dessert in my sister’s bridal shower cook book. (I often flip through the personal cook books of friends and family when I’m at their houses. Yes, I know that I’m kind of a dork. I just can’t help it.)

Aunt Terri is kind of a big deal. She’s the woman behind our Old Fashioned Pea Salad and our Texas Caviar, two of my hand’s down favorite recipes. Just based on that factor alone, I knew I needed this Strawberry Cool Whip dessert in my belly.

As it turns out, this strawberry delight recipe only has five simple ingredients, so I put it on my Valentine’s Day menu for my sweet little Valentines. Good thing I did, because my kids loved it. It’s so light and fluffy and full of strawberry flavor, how could you not?

What is Strawberry Delight?

Strawberry delight is a cold, no bake dessert salad. It typically contains some type of dairy product such as cream cheese or whipped cream. The strawberry flavor comes from either Jello or strawberry pie filling. The combination creates a crowd-pleasing recipe that is easy to make.

Cool Whip Strawberry Delight Dessert Ingredient List

• Sweetened Condensed Milk, chilled: Make sure you grab sweetened condensed milk and not evaporated milk from the pantry.
• Crushed Pineapple: Drain your pineapple well. You can keep the juice to use in other recipes if you’d like.
• Strawberry Pie Filling, canned: Look in the baking aisle for this pie filling. You should see it next to the apple and other fruit pie fillings.
• Cool Whip (or homemade whipped cream)
• Chopped Pecans: Buying pecan halves might be a bit cheaper and chopping them yourself is super easy.

How to Make Strawberry Delight

Step By Step Instructions

1. With a hand mixer, beat chilled sweetened condensed milk until fluffy and white in color.
2. In a large mixing bowl, combine drained crushed pineapple and strawberry pie filling to the sweetened condensed milk, and fold until combined.
3. Stir in Cool Whip and chopped pecans by hand.
4. Spoon into a 13 x 9 inch baking dish, and chill until set.

Equipment

Before making this no-bake dessert, make sure you have these pantry ingredients and kitchen tools on hand. I love bringing this dessert in a vintage dish like this one for the holidays.

Storage Instructions

Store in an airtight container or in a pan with a tight fitting lit in the refrigerator for up to a week.

For the full ingredient amounts and instructions for easy strawberry fluff, scroll to the recipe card at the bottom of this post.

Recipe FAQs

• This strawberry delight is a no bake dessert recipe.  No oven or microwave needed.
• Chill the sweetened condensed milk before whipping with the mixer. Chilling it helps make it fluffy.  If I forget, I just put the can in the freezer for about 20 minutes.
• Whip the chilled sweetened condensed milk until it turns from cream colored to white and the texture becomes fluffier.
• Use heavy whipping cream to make homemade whipped cream as an alternative to whipped topping.
• Drain the crushed pineapple very well to prevent a runny strawberry fluff.
• A large serving bowl or individual bowls could be used instead of a 13 x 9 inch baking dish, if desired.
• To spread prettily into your dish, try using a flat edged spatula.

Strawberry Delight Variations

What can I do to modify strawberry cool whip dessert?

The sky is the limit to your creativity when making a Cool Whip dessert using canned pie filling.  Here are some of my favorite variations:

• Substitute strawberry pie filling for cherry, blueberry, lemon, etc.
• Instead of using pie filling, use a box of strawberry Jello or strawberry gelatin.
• Add mini marshmallows for a new texture.
• Try some flavored Cool Whip such as strawberry instead of regular Cool Whip.
• Want it to be healthier?  Cottage cheese is an easy addition that doesn’t change the flavor.
• Add a layer of crushed vanilla wafers or pecan sandies.
• Any type of chopped nut could be used instead of pecans.
• Decorate the top with fresh strawberry slices and additional chopped nuts.
• Put the entire strawberry delight in a high powered food processor to make a smooth fluff.
• For a cheesecake layer, add softened cream cheese.
• Add a layer of Cool Whip on top of the Strawberry delight to make it even prettier.
• Fresh strawberries make a pretty display.
• Make a pie by adding it to a graham cracker crust.

Cool Whip Salad Recipes

Watergate Salad

Grandma’s Cherry Fluff

Vintage Pretzel Salad

Red Hot Fluff

Pink Lady Salad

Lazy Daisy Ambrosia Salad

Orange Jello Salad

Oreo Fluff

Strawberry Recipes

We love strawberries and have a few other recipes featuring this versatile fruit:

• Strawberry Bread with Frozen Strawberries
• Grandma’s Strawberry Freezer Jam
• Strawberry Rhubarb Jam

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