I started at google with a search for 'ambrosia recipe which yielded the recipe from Alton Brown and 2 suggested searches yielded these:

What is ambrosia:

Ambrosia is a variation on the traditional fruit salad. Most ambrosia recipes contain fresh or sweetened pineapple, mandarin oranges or fresh orange sections, miniature marshmallows, and coconut. Other ingredients can include maraschino cherries, bananas, strawberries, peeled grapes, or crushed pecans.

How to make ambrosia:

Add the sour cream and whisk to combine. Add the marshmallows, orange, pineapple, coconut, pecans and cherries and stir to combine. Transfer to a glass serving bowl, cover and place in the refrigerator for 2 hours before serving.

Recipe from Alton Brown

• 1/2 cup heavy cream
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 4 ounces sour cream
• 6 ounces homemade mini marshmallows, approximately 3 cups
• 1 cup clementine orange segments, approximately 6 clementines
• 1 cup chopped fresh pineapple
• 1 cup freshly grated coconut
• 1 cup toasted, chopped pecans
• 1/2 cup drained maraschino cherries

I converted this all to cups here;

• 1/2 cup heavy cream
• 0.0616115 cup sugar
• 0.492892 cup sour cream
• 3 cups mini marshmallows, approximately 3 cups
• 1 cup clementine orange segments
• 1 cup chopped fresh pineapple
• 1 cup freshly grated coconut
• 1 cup toasted, chopped pecans
• 1/2 cup drained maraschino cherries

Flavor Selection

• Heavy Cream and Sugar would obviously translate into Sweet Cream (or maybe VBIC)

• Sour Cream is a little more difficult. After looking through popular creams I thought of Butter Cream, but when looking into pecan flavors I Think that I'll use butter pecan (FW) and get the richness of sour cream with the pecan flavor together. It may be good to involve some butter or another rich cream that I don't know about.

• The lack of toasted pecan flavoring leads me to choose Toasted Marshmallow to get the toasted touch.

• With orange my gut says Mandarin, just personal preference and the ambrosia that I grew up with. I see that Orange Mandarin(TPA) is popular.

• Pineapple makes me think sweet almost like candy and I recall reading that golden pineapple is that kind of flavor so I'll pick CAP Golden Pineapple.

• Coconut Candy(TPA) is in the top 5 most used, and sounds good to me (and I've seen ambrosia recipes that use it)

• Marashcino Cherry(TPA) is the #3 most used in cherry flavors and it's in the recipe.

• Now I have seen some people use Pina Colada in Ambrosia recipes and I think that it'll help to bring the flavors together. I still plan on using the individual flavors to accent the pina colada as well, this flavor will just be a bit of glue to hold things together (TPA) is popular and seems to fit the overall pattern so we'll pick that one.

• I had originally set out to be cloning THRST - Ambition liquid before deciding that a great Ambrosia would suffice, so I think that I will use some yogurt. Yogurt may be able to give me the bit of what I may be otherwise missing in the sour cream bit, especially a greek yogurt. We will decide on Greek Yogurt (TPA) as the butter pecan will bring it back to sweet.

So now I have this list: PLEASE SUGGEST ANY RECOMMENDED CHANGES

the only one of these flavors that I have used is the toasted marshmallow

• TPA Greek Yogurt
• FW Butter Pecan
• TPA Toasted Marshmallow
• TPA Orange Mandarin
• CAP Golden Pineapple
• TPA Coconut Candy
• TPA Maraschino Cherry

The next bit that's important is finding the percentages that are most common (as a jumping off point) for each flavor both as a single flavor and in a mix. After getting these we will scale these values by the food recipe.

Food recipe will be adopted like this

• Greek Yogurt = heavy cream and sour cream
• butter pecan = sugar and pecans
• the rest is straight forward

The next part I used an Excel spreadsheet to run some numbers. In addition to the calculations listed, I also found the sum total of each column to eyeball a decent overall flavor percentage.

I find the sum total of food ingredients and then divide each ingredient amount by the total to get the % of total flavor. This us going to be used as a method of judging/scaling from the ELR percentages

I then get the Mean and median values for each flavor used as a single flavor and as a mix. I averaged the mean and median to get a better (in my opinion) ball park for each. Then I also got minimum and maximum values for using in a mix. I made columns using the scaling factor from above (gotten from food recipe) and the values from ELR. My gut said to use the meanscale values for single flavor, but those give a flavor total of 7.486% so I just look across the totals for each column and find 3 that seem to have potential. the Medianscaling for single flavor has 8.763 % total. The minimum amount (for a mix, from elr) of each flavor gives a 16.7% total and the average of mean and median (for a mix from ELR) gives a total of 27.35%. Initially I think that the 16.7 sounds best to me but I don't want to discredit the 8.763 total as I believe that these flavors are going to be pretty powerful together (just my gut here)

Thre are now 3 recipes to try

The 8.76 % Total (basesd on median single flavor value and scaling factor)

• 0.46 Greek Yogurt TPA

• 0.99 Butter Pecan FW

• 3.51 Toasted Marshmallow TPA

• 1.17 Orange Mandarin TPA

• 1.17 Golden Pineapple CAP

• 1.17 Coconut Candy TPA

• 0.30 Marschino Cherry TPA The 16.7% recipe (based on minimum value in a mix)

• 2.5 Greek Yogurt TPA

• 4 Butter Pecan FW

• 2 Toasted Marshmallow TPA

• 4 Orange Mandarin TPA

• 2 Golden Pineapple CAP

• 1 Coconut Candy TPA

• 0.2 Marschino Cherry TPA and lastly the 27.35% total from average of mean and median used in a mix

• 4.85 Greek Yogurt TPA

• 4.4 Butter Pecan FW

• 2.55 Toasted Marshmallow TPA

• 4.7 Orange Mandarin TPA

• 4.45 Golden Pineapple CAP

• 3 Coconut Candy TPA

• 3.4 Marschino Cherry TPA

TL;DR: I went ADD on creating a clone recipe that I haven't tried yet. I will work on putting these three on ELR at lunch and I will link them here.

Edit: Added links to the recipes on ELR

Edit: NEW VERSION FROM COMMENTS Ambrosia / Ambition V2

Ingredient|% :---|---: Almond (TPA)|2 Cherries (INAWERA)|1 Coconut (FA)|1.5 Cream Fresh (FA)|1 Greek Yogurt (TPA)|4.3 Mandarin (FA)|1.5 Marshmallow (FA)|1.5 Pecan (TPA)|2.5 Pineapple (INAWERA)|1.5

Flavor total: 16.8%

Edit: I'm finally ordering the flavors for the V2 and will report back after I have mixed this. Thanks to all that commented and helped along the way. Part 2