Creamy Fruit Salad

Creamy Fruit Salad is simple, fast and easy. All you need is a variety fruit, Cream Cheese and Marshmallow Cream. Strawberries, Pineapple, Grapes, Apples.. you name it! All of the delicious colorful fruit brought together with Cream Cheese and Marshmallow Cream.

Creamy Fruit Salad is PERFECT for Summer!

Fruit salad really deserves it’s place in all seasons but this fruit salad in particular is perfect for summertime and potlucks.

The sweet and tart from the cream cheese and marshmallow cream really accentuate the sweetness of the ripe fruit.

Kids (and adults!) can never get enough. This salad is always one of the firsts to disappear at family parties.

This salad is great to make ahead of time and, honestly, only gets better as it sits in the fridge. The strawberries kind of let off a little juice and give the creamy coating an extra fruity kick.

I love that because of the cream cheese and marshmallow cream, the fruit stays together. No more grapes rolling off of plates, hitting the floor and then calling the 5 second rule. 😉

Besides all of those wonderful reason that this salad is simply AMAZING, this fruit salad tastes like dessert, but passes as a salad. That is an automatic win in my book.

How To Pick The Perfect Fruit

Having ripe fruit is essential to create a perfect fruit salad. Under-ripe fruit is harder, extremely tart and makes an overall different taste to the salad. There are a few tips and tricks when it comes to picking the best fruit, though.

For grapes, pick ones that are firm and securely attatched to their stems. They should also be heavy for their size. This indicates a super juicy grape.

For Pineapple, they should have a sweet smell up on the leaf end. You should be able to pull out a leaf quite easily, this indicates a ripe fruit. The pineapple should also feel heavy for it’s size which will tell you it’s a juicy one!

To pick the best strawberries look for the package that has a deep red strawberries that are uniform in color. Always make sure to check the bottom for crushed or spoiled strawberries.

How To Make The Perfect Creamy Fruit Salad

First to make the creamy coating, you’ll need room temperature cream cheese. If you are anything like me, you never remember to set the cream cheese out in time for it to actually soften and come to room temperature.

Good thing I have a trick for that, right? Cutting the cream cheese up into cubes helps bring the cream cheese up to room temperature much faster.

If you are needing it, say, 10 minutes ago, you can warm up a microwave rice pack and lay the headed pack onto the packaged cream cheese. That should do the trick.

Once you have room temperature cream cheese, use either a stand mixer or a hand mixer to whip the cream cheese and marshmallow cream together until smooth.

The creamy coating is all ready to be folded into the fresh fruit!

As far as prepping the fruit, I always leave the grapes whole, I quarter the strawberries and then I cut the pineapple into small wedges. I always use fresh pineapple (because that stuff is like literal magic!) but canned pineapple will work well too.

Like I said above, this salad is great to make a day ahead if needed. The strawberries will leak a little bit of juice, but it really just adds to the deliciousness of the salad. It isn’t hard to prep the fruit, make the creamy coating and then keep them seprate until just before serving either. Whichever way works best for you is the way to go!

Creamy Fruit Salad

(Printable Recipe Below)

Creamy Fruit Salad is simple, fast and easy. All you need is a variety fruit, Cream Cheese and Marshmallow Cream. Strawberries, Pineapple, Grapes, Apples.. you name it! All of the delicious colorful fruit brought together with Cream Cheese and Marshmallow Cream

Ingredients

• 2cups pineapple chunks I like to use fresh!
• 2cups strawberries quartered
• 2cups red grapes
• 8oz cream cheese room temperature
• 7oz marshmallow cream

Instructions

1. Wash and prep the fruit. Toss the fruit together in a large bowl.
2. Cream the cream cheese and marshmallow cream together either using  a stand mixer or handheld beaters.
3. Fold the creamy coating into the prepared fruit.
4. Either serve immediately or keep refrigerated until ready to serve.

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