This fruit salad is rich and creamy, making it a delightful summer dessert as well as a Thanksgiving staple. This dish was brought to every family gathering by my mother-in-law.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Additional Time: | 1 hr |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 15 mins |
| Servings: | 8 |
Ingredients
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- ¼ cup white sugar, or to taste
- 1 (12 ounce) container frozen whipped topping, thawed
- 1 (15.25 ounce) can crushed pineapple, drained
- 1 (15.25 ounce) can fruit cocktail, drained
- 3 bananas, peeled and sliced
- 1 large Jonagold apple, peeled and chopped
- ½ cup sweetened flaked coconut
- ½ cup chopped pecans (Optional)
- ½ cup golden raisins (Optional)
- 1 (4 ounce) jar maraschino cherries, drained and halved (Optional)
Instructions
- Beat cream cheese and sugar together in a large bowl with an electric mixer. Mix in whipped topping on high speed until incorporated. Fold in pineapple, fruit cocktail, bananas, apple, coconut, pecans, raisins, and cherries. Transfer to a serving bowl, cover, and chill for at least 1 hour before serving.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 486 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 61 g |
| Cholesterol | 31 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 5 g |
| Protein | 5 g |
| Saturated Fat | 17 g |
| Sodium | 111 mg |
| Sugars | 46 g |
| Fat | 27 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
just added pudding instead of sugar and canned fruit yummy great recipe
I made this for easter this year and it was a big hit! I did what others suggested in their reviews and used pineapple chunks and grapes. I left out the coconut, sugar, pecans, and raisans. I will definitely make this again
Other than substituting my own favorite fruits, I wanted to share a BEAUTIFUL serving method our mother used: fill the hollowed-out half of an ORANGE peel, then freeze them
Wonderful!! I used a pkg of instant pudding instead of sugar with the cream cheese and whipped topping, mmm yummy! And also I had on hand marshmallows instead of coconut and red and green grapes, chunky pineapple instead of crushed and a apple. loved it, thank you for the recipe, the possibilities are endless
So so good. Everyone in my home loved it and it was super easy and affordable to make! I made a double batch and still paid less than $15 for all the ingredients!
Awesomeness on a plate! I skipped all the sugar as fruit, coconut and whipped cream was sweet aplenty!
I use this recipe at Thanksgiving every year and have for the past 6 years. Everyone loves it. I do change up the fruit in it from year to year though.
I could not find any Jonagold apples so I used a Fuji apple, I do not like raisins so I left them out and I forgot the pineapple but hey it turned out really good anyway.
The salad is delicious! I added the cherries but not raisins or nuts. Just used what I had. We put small amount of mini marshmallows on top.
Doubled the recipe, it was so delicious.
I made this salad for Thanksgiving with a few changes on the fruit due to tastes. It was a hit! Now I’m asked to bring it again for Christmas. Thanks for the recipe!!
Added a can of mandarin slices, made my own whipped cream and it’s quickly become one of the the things people request at get togethers. Fantastic!!
No changes loved it just the way it was supposed to be .
Good fruit salad I would leave fruit out until 1 hour before you serve it,this way the fruit won’t go bad
It turned out wonderful. Gave it 5 stars cause its so easy and good. Great for a picnic or party. I made it exactly as recipe but would also be great with mini marshmallows . May next time may add mandarin oranges (drained) to the mix. The cream cheese made it tastier and creamier.
I toasted my pecans & coconut beforehand, used Greek cream cheese & fat-free, sugar-free cool whip. In the future I would switch out the fruit cocktail for something else – maybe mandarin oranges. I just don’t prefer fruit cocktail, it was ok in this but would’ve been tastier with oranges to me. Thanks for sharing!
It’s so good. I made it for thanksgiving last year and everyone loved it! I’m going to make the salad this year for thanksgiving again but this time I’m going to double the recipe.
My Filipina friend at work LOVES cream cheese fruit salad so I found this recipe to make it for her. She loved it!! The variety of fruit and addition of pecans really made this recipe pop. I used all the listed ingredients and didn’t change the recipe at all.
I’ve made a form of this recipe for years. My family loves it-in almost any combination! I have added pudding, pie filling, and other combinations also. I like mini marshmallows, cherry pie filling (good for Christmas or Valentines Day, sometimes mandarin oranges (drained), sometimes walnuts instead of pecans . . . or not at all. I do try to keep combinations complimentary. Try FREEZING it! Can be frozen in pans and cut into bars or frozen in serving size cups (try adding sticks for frozen popsicles). Remove from freezer to the refrigerator about an hour before serving.
Love it and it’s even better now and it’s the Saturday after Thanksgiving which is when it was originally served. My stepmom made this and I just picked the bananas out before storing mine and it’s still THAT good. I plan to make this myself but omit the bananas all together as I’m not a fan of them anyway. Definitely a keeper and a VERY tasty dish!
My Mom used to make this when we were kids. I went further on the fruit. I put in bananas, grapes, a apple, a pear, strawberries, blackberries, and a orange. I didnt put in the other stuff (nuts and coconut) because this is the way my mom used to make it. Yum!