Another 1950s Picture Salad: Candle Salad

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 2 bananas
• lettuce
• 4 slices canned pineapple (or make rings from fresh pineapple)
• 4 orange gumdrops
• 4 ounces cream cheese (1/2 of 8 oz. pkg.)
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon

Recipe

• 1 blend the cream cheese, sugar, vanilla and cinnamon together with a mixer. reserve.
• 2 peel bananas and cut in half crosswise. remove the tips.
• 3 divide the lettuce among 4 plates place a pineapple ring in the center of each plate. fill the center with reserved cream cheese mixture. place a banana (pointed end up) upright in the center of pineapple ring. top the banana with a gumdrop "flame." squeeze a little cream cheese m mixture onto the tip of each "candle" to represent wax.
• 4 note: as an alternate to the cream cheese mixture above, mix two tablespoons mayonnaise and 1 tablespoon peanut butter. pour over "candle." use a maraschino cherry for the "flame" instead of the gumdrop.