Looking for a fruit salad for your Easter feast? This is it!
This crowd-pleasing, easter fruit salad is topped with a honey vanilla yogurt! It is special and beautiful, but so easy-to-make.
Fresh fruit salad is a great addition to any Easter dinner spread. And while you could make any old fruit salad, this Easter fruit salad recipe is truly next-level!
It’s an easy fruit salad recipe that will elevate your Easter brunch, lunch, or dinner. This creamy fruit salad would also be a perfect side dish for baby showers, a family reunion, or family dinners any other time of year.
Trust me, no matter when you make this colorful fruit salad, it will disappear in seconds!
The secret to this recipe is the sweet and creamy mascarpone whip, which includes tangy plain yogurt, honey, and lemon juice. It’s like an elevated version of your favorite Cool Whip fruit salad or retro ambrosia salad recipe!
You also might like this recipe for 4th of july fruit salad, halloween fruit salad, thanksgiving fruit salad or fruit cocktail! This gluten-free raspberry pretzel salad is always a favorite.
This fruit salad can be made with any of your favorite fruits, but I think I’ve struck the perfect fruit combination with fresh strawberries, blueberries, mandarin oranges, green grapes, raspberries, and apples.
These fruits all balance each other out with sweetness from the berries, acidity from the oranges, and crispness from the apples. The fruit salad dressing makes it even more of a sweet treat.
Make a big bowl of this refreshing fruit salad, because it’s going to be everyone’s new favorite fruit salad recipe!
You also might like these easter snacks!
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Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Fruit, sweet, and creamy
- Easy-to-make
- Great for holidays
- Serves a crowd
For more Easter recipes, try these recipes for deviled eggs with relish, potato salad recipe, and roasted sweet potatoes.
You also might like these gluten-free ham, gluten-free scalloped potatoes, gluten-free cheesy potatoes, gluten-free corn casserole, and gluten free sweet potato casserole.
This ambrosia salad with cool whip also looks delicious!
Ingredients You’ll Need
For the Fruit Salad
Here’s what you’ll need to make the absolute best fruit salad:
- Strawberries: Fresh strawberries are essential for this recipe. Make sure they are fully ripe and have good flavor!
- Blueberries: Likewise, it’s best to use fresh blueberries for this fruit salad. Frozen fruit simply won’t give you the same flavor and texture.
- Mandarin oranges: You can use canned or fresh Mandarin oranges in this recipe.
- Raspberries: Again, I recommend using fresh raspberries for this fruit salad.
- Grapes: I use green grapes to add more diversity of color to this fruit salad, but red grapes would also work.
- Apple: I like the tang and color of green apples best for this recipe.
- Lemon juice: Lemon juice helps preserve the fruit so it doesn’t get brown and mushy before serving.
For the Honey Mascarpone
Here’s what you’ll need to make the delicious fruit dressing:
- Mascarpone: Mascarpone is light, creamy, and delicious! Look for full-fat mascarpone for this recipe.
- Plain yogurt: You can use plain Greek yogurt or regular yogurt for this recipe.
- Honey: Honey adds sweetness and enhances the flavor of the fruit!
- Lemon juice: Lemon juice adds a bit of tang to the dressing. I prefer using fresh, but bottled lemon juice will also work.
- Vanilla: Use real vanilla extract for the best flavor.
How to Make This Recipe
- Combine all the fruit in a serving bowl.
- Toss with the lemon juice and gently mix.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the mascarpone cheese, yogurt, honey, lemon juice and vanilla extract.
- Just before serving, gently toss the fruit with honey mascarpone. Alternatively, you can serve the fruit individually in bowls/plates and dollop it with a little of the mascarpone.
- Enjoy!
You also might like this easter bunny cake.
Storage Instructions
This fruit salad tastes best within hours of serving, but you can store leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge.
FAQs
Certain fruits do not work well in fruit salad, since they tend to get brown and mushy. I tend to avoid pears, bananas, peaches, cherries, and nectarines. Don’t add dried fruit to your fruit salad, either—the texture won’t mix well with the fresh fruit.
You can cut up fruit for a salad the night before, but you’ll want to protect the fruit from browning by adding a bit of lemon juice. Some fruits become mushy or lose their juices if you cut them too far in advance, but melons and oranges can be cut in advance.
Strawberries are a classic Easter fruit, along with spring season fruits like honeydew melons, cherries, and kiwi.
Expert Tips & Tricks
- This salad turns out best if you cut the fruit right before serving, or a few hours in advance. If you want to save time and cut the fruit the night before, store the fruit in separate containers to preserve the fruit. Avoid cutting apples until right before.
- Feel free to switch up the fruits in this recipe, but keep in mind, bananas can quickly turn brown and mushy, so I don’t recommend adding them to fruit salad.
- I like to cut the grapes in half for better ratios. It makes them easier to eat, too!
- Rather than serving the fruit in a large bowl, you could make individual portions in ramekins and top with mascarpone whip.
MORE EASTER RECIPES
I hope you love this recipe as much as we do! If you try this Easter fruit salad, be sure to leave me a comment/rating below. I’d love to hear from you!
Easter Fruit Salad (Honey Vanilla Yogurt!)
Ingredients
FOR THE FRUIT SALAD
- 1 cup blueberries
- 1 cup raspberries
- 2 cups strawberries sliced
- 1 large apple diced
- 1-2 cups green grapes halved
- 1 11-ounce can mandarin oranges, drained
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
FOR THE HONEY MASCARPONE
- 8 ounces mascarpone cheese softened
- 1 cup plain yogurt full-fat is preferable
- ¼ cup honey
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Combine all the fruit in a serving bowl. Toss with the lemon juice and gently mix.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the mascarpone cheese, yogurt, honey, lemon juice and vanilla extract.
- Just before serving, gently toss the fruit with honey mascarpone. Alternatively you can serve the fruit individually in bowls/plates and dollop with a little of the mascarpone.
- Enjoy!
Notes
- This salad turns out best if you cut the fruit right before serving, or a few hours in advance. If you want to save time and cut the fruit the night before, store the fruit in separate containers to preserve the fruit. Avoid cutting apples until right before.
- Feel free to switch up the fruits in this recipe, but keep in mind, bananas can quickly turn brown and mushy, so I don’t recommend adding them to fruit salad.
- I like to cut the grapes in half for better ratios. It makes them easier to eat, too!
- Rather than serving the fruit in a large bowl, you could make individual portions in ramekins and top with mascarpone whip.
Loved the recipe and was super easy to follow. Found mascarpone at the local grocery store near the deli. Used Silk yogurt instead of regular yogurt and was pleased with the overall flavor.
I’m so glad it turned out for you! Great to know it worked with Silk Yogurt.
Turned out awesome! I couldn’t find any marscapone in my store, so I used Philadelphia cream cheese as a substitute. I also forgot to put the apples in. But everyone still loved it at Easter lunch 🙂 The sauce is super tasty but not overly sweet and does not overpower the fresh fruit.
I drained the mandarin oranges and also put the fruit between paper towels in a bowl after rinsing them to keep the wateriness down.
I cut the fruit at 7AM, keeping the raspberries separate so they didn’t get squished. I put a bit of lemon juice over the fruit before wrapping it and putting it in the fridge. I finished the sauce and put that in a separate container at 10:30AM. Then they were all mixed together at 2:00PM. Nothing was mushy and it all tasted so good.
I am now having another helping at 8:00PM as I write this
I’m so glad it turned out for you! This is helpful for others to know so I appreciate you taking the time to comment 🙂
Can I make the honey marscapone the day before or does that need to be done right before mixing with the fruit?
Yes you can totally make the honey marscapone a day in advance!
Very easy to follow, all ingredients were found at my local aldi’s and giant foods. At the last minute I added chopped walnuts and they added a nice crunch with the apples. Thinking maybe next time to replace one of the fruits w pineapple but its delicious just as it is
Walnuts sound like a delicious addition! So would pineapple! I’m glad you enjoyed it 🙂
This turned out absolutely beautiful and tastes delicious too. My new go-to for sure!
Loved this fruit salad! The sauce on top was so creamy and delicious!
So delicious and fun also! We made this for brunch and it was a huge hit, we are for sure adding it to our Easter menu!
I’m so glad it turned out for you!
You don’t say how many servings the Easter Fruit Salad provides. I ask because most other fruit salad recipes I see online have way more ingredients. Should I double this for 6 people?
The recipe says 8 servings. I think always depends on serving size of course – but I think alongside a big meal it’s enough for 6-8 people. I hope this helps!