If you’re tired of plain-old cut fruit, don’t sleep on this tangy cream cheese fruit salad.
Fruit salads can get a bit ho-hum, which is why we love elevating them with a sweet, creamy and tangy dressing. This cream cheese fruit salad recipe is packed with juicy fruits like apples and grapes, and each component offers a different color and texture for a lovely complexity. This light and bright salad can be served for breakfast, lunch or dessert, and is ideal for a company potluck or holiday breakfast.
Ingredients for Cream Cheese Fruit Salad
Golden Delicious apples: These versatile apples can do it all, whether it’s snacking, baking or applesauce making. The mildly sweet and tender apples play a starring role here.
Red Delicious apples: This juicy, crisp and refreshing apple variety is great to eat raw, which makes it the perfect choice for fresh fruit salad.
Green grapes: Choose seedless green grapes. This tart, juicy and sweet variety is easier to eat.
Red grapes: Red grapes tend to be sweeter and less tart than green grapes—great for offseting those sour notes. They also offer pops of bright and bold color.
Pineapple: Tropical, sweet and totally juicy, pineapple offers a nice and chewy texture to fruit salads like this one. It also helps add some bright and vibrant yellow color.
Mandarin oranges: Be sure to drain the mandarin oranges thoroughly before tossing them with the fruit. Mandarin oranges are sweeter than other oranges, and their small size perfectly mimics the other fruits in this salad.
Cream cheese: Thick, creamy and mildly flavored, cream cheese makes a great base for dressings, especially in fruit-forward dishes like this one.
Sour cream: Sour cream is tangy and smooth, and it blends with cream cheese, mayonnaise and sugar to create a thick and refreshing dressing for this fruit salad.
Mayonnaise: Mayonnaise’s mild flavor lets it take on the flavors of whatever it’s mixed with.
Sugar: Sugar is added to the dressing to amplify the sweetness of the fruit in the salad.
Directions
Step 1: Toss the fruit and mix the dressing
In a large bowl, combine the apples, grapes, pineapple chunks and mandarin oranges. In a small bowl, beat the cream cheese, sour cream, mayonnaise and sugar until they’re smooth.
Step 2: Combine the fruit and dressing
Pour the dressing over the fruit, then toss gently to coat the fruit. If your bowl is looking a little messy, transfer the salad to a pretty serving bowl.
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