Halloween Fruit Salad (Honey-Orange Dressing!)

This Halloween fruit salad is a fun and festive healthy treat! It always disappears quickly at Halloween parties!

This salad features orange and “black” fruit tossed in an easy honey-orange dressing.The mini cantaloupe pumpkins are my favorite!

Course Side Dishes

Cuisine American

Diet Gluten Free

Prep Time 20

Total Time 20

1 ripe cantaloupe melon
16 ounces blackberries
15 ounces canned mandarin oranges drained
8 ounces dark cherries or grapes pitted
6 ounces golden berries halved
4 ripe apricots pitted and sliced
1 small orange juiced and zested (about 1 tablespoon zest and 3 tablespoons juice)
2 tablespoons honey

Cut the cantaloupe into 1-inch slices. Use a small pumpkin cookie cutter to cut out pumpkin shapes.
Add the cantaloupe pumpkins, blackberries, mandarin oranges, cherries, golden berries, and apricots to a large bowl.
Whisk together the orange zest, orange juice, and honey. Drizzle the dressing over the fruit and very gently stir to combine.
Enjoy immediately.

RECIPE NOTES

The mini pumpkin cookie cutter isn’t necessary, but it definitely makes this fruit salad more festive! I use the second smallest size from this pumpkin cookie cutter set.
Fruit salad is completely customizable. I like using a mix of orange and black fruits to make this recipe festive for Halloween, but you can add anything else (or leave out anything) that you like!
Orange zest and juice add a delicious acidity that really brightens up the flavor of the fruit. I used a Navel orange, but Cara Cara or Blood orange would also be delicious!
When making a fruit salad, I like to make sure I have at least one melon (cantaloupe, honeydew, watermelon), one citrus (navel orange, mandarin orange, blood orange, grapefruit, etc.), and one berry (blackberries, raspberries, strawberries). Anything else is optional!