Best Cheesecake Salad Recipe (Tropical Fruit)

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Best Cheesecake Salad Recipe (Tropical Fruit)

This Cheesecake Salad, a blend of tropical fruits in a luscious cheesecake fruit salad dressing. A refreshing dessert salad recipe perfect for summer!

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword cheesecake salad, dessert, fruit salad, summer, tropical fruit

Prep Time 45

Chill Time 1

Total Time 45

Servings servings

Calories 207kcal

Author Dana at ThisSillyGirlsKitchen.com

Ingredients

15 ounces mandarin oranges drained
2 mangoes medium dice
16 ounces strawberries stems removed, medium dice
1 pint blueberries
5 kiwi peeled, sliced thin
2 cups fresh pineapple medium dice (or canned)
3 bananas thinly sliced
8 ounces cream cheese softened
14 ounces sweetened condensed milk
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla bean paste or vanilla extract
1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
mint, garnish optional

Instructions

Place all the fruit into a large bowl. Set aside.
15 ounces mandarin oranges, 2 mangoes, 16 ounces strawberries, 1 pint blueberries, 5 kiwi, 2 cups fresh pineapple, 3 bananas
In a medium-sized bowl, whip the cream cheese with a hand mixer until smooth. Add the sweetened condensed milk and vanilla, carefully whip until combined, slowly at first or it might splash. Add the heavy cream and whip again, be careful and whip slowly at first.
8 ounces cream cheese, 14 ounces sweetened condensed milk, 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla bean paste, 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
Pour the cheesecake sauce over the fruit. Gently fold it in until everything is coated. Be easy here and take your time so the fruit doesn't fall apart. Cover with plastic wrap and place in the fridge for one hour to chill. Serve with more fruit as garnish and mint sprigs, optional.
mint, garnish

Notes

You can use any fruit that you want, we chose the fruit that we have in this recipe to make it tropical.
Use frozen and canned fruit if you'd like. Make sure the frozen is thawed and drained and the canned is drained well.
You can absolutely double this recipe for larger gatherings.
Substitute cool whip for the heavy whipping cream, use about 1 cup.
This is a very versatile salad and can use multiple different fruits so have fun with it and create new fun flavors.
Eat this as a salad in bowls of you can use cinnamon chips, cookies, or other fruit to use it as a dip as well.

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