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Our Easy Fruit Salad Recipe has a surprise ingredient – cinnamon! The warm flavor adds this cozy vibe that gives this fruit salad a pie filling kind of vibe to it. Impossible to resist!
One of my favorite parts of summer is the fruit salad. I mean, yes, you can eat it all year long, but we mostly save it for when all the berries are in season and we’ll be outside by the pool.
It’s the perfect thing to serve up at a pool party next to your turkey burgers or ranch grilled chicken.
It even makes a great breakfast alongside our Amish breakfast casserole!
This fruit salad recipe is a staple in my house for any get-together, because it’s really easy to prepare and it’s always one of the first things to get eaten.
The fruit salad dressing is really just a hefty sprinkle of brown sugar and a dash of cinnamon. It adds this cozy, warm flavor to the fruit that gives it a bit of a pie filling vibe. So dang good and a little unexpected!
♥ What We Love About This Recipe:
- Colorful: This fruit salad is full of bright, colorful fruit that’s as appealing to look at as it is to eat! It’s always popular at any gathering!
- Versatile: You can serve this as dessert, for breakfast, as a side with lunch or dinner, or however you like! Fruit salad can be served pretty much any time.
- Customizable: We love that you can switch this salad up with all your favorite fruits to get it just the way you like! Most fruits will work here and even some other mix-ins like nuts or mini marshmallows can be used.
Ingredient Notes:
Fresh Fruit – You can really use pretty much any combination of fresh fruit that you like when making this salad. I’m using strawberries, kiwi, grapes, chopped pineapple (fresh or canned is okay), raspberries, and blueberries.
Brown Sugar & Cinnamon – For sweetening up this fruit salad. We love the brown sugar flavor mixed with the warm cinnamon. It really enhances the natural sweetness in the fruit and brings out the flavor!
Other – When it comes to fruit salad you’ve got so many options! Some other good fruits that would work here include apples, pears, bananas, peaches and oranges. Dried fruits or shredded coconut, and even chopped nuts make good mix ins too!
See the recipe card for full information on ingredients and quantities.
Can Fruit Salad Be Made Ahead?
If you’d like to make your fruit salad a day in advance, chop your fruits and add them to the mixing bowl.
For the best texture, do not add the fruit salad dressing until 30 minutes before serving.
As the fruits set in the dressing, they release more juices and the longer they set, the softer the fruits get. For that reason, it’s best to wait to add any dressing or sugar until closer to time to serve.
Helpful Tip!
Freezing & Storage Instructions:
You can store leftover fruit salad for up to a couple of days in the refrigerator if it is well sealed. The fruit will release juice the longer it sits in the sugar and cinnamon so it’s best to use within a couple days.
We don’t recommend freezing as the fruit will be fairly soft and release a lot of liquid when thawing.
Recipe FAQs:
Absolutely, fruit salad is a sweet treat that can double as a dessert or a side dish. To serve as a dessert, consider pairing it with vanilla ice cream or pound cake with whipped cream.
You can toss the fruit in a little bit of lemon or lime juice to help prevent browning and to keep the colors looking bright!
I’d recommend using fresh fruits for the best flavor and results. But you can use frozen if you thaw them first and drain so that they don’t end up too watery in the fruit salad.
MORE FAVORITE FRUIT RECIPES!
- Blackberry Cobbler: One of our favorites!
- Watermelon Mint Salad: So refreshing and simple.
- Strawberry Cream Cake: Gluten free and low carb!
- Lemon Bar Recipe: Hard to go wrong with a classic like these!
- Fruit Pizza: With a layer of sweet cream cheese!
- Air Fryer Pineapple: Also with brown sugar and cinnamon!
Brown Sugar and Cinnamon Fruit Salad
Ingredients
- 1 pound strawberries
- 2 kiwi
- 1 cup grapes
- 1 cup chopped pineapple fresh or canned
- 6 ounces raspberries
- 6 ounces blueberries
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Rinse all of the fruit well.
- Quarter the strawberries and dice the kiwi. Cut grapes in half.
- Add all of the fruit and the brown sugar and cinnamon to a large serving bowl and stir gently to combine.
- Cover tightly and refrigerate for 30 minutes before serving.
Fiarazorgo says
Thanks. for the recipe really helped in cooking. My husband was satisfied.
Colleen says
Yum! I could eat this fruit salad for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and in between!
Annette says
Wow! This fruit salad sounds like a delicious treat to have on these fine summer days. I think it would take care of any sweet tooths someone may have. Thank you, Karly, for sharing this with us! Pinning!
Jodi says
This looks amazing and I can’t wait to try it! Brown sugar is the bomb! I used to it eat it by the spoonful when I was a kid ?. I know I’m going to love this!
Karly says
Haha! I used to sneak the chunks of brown sugar when I was a kid! 🙂
Mary says
Tried this tonight for first time and it was excellent. We eat fruit salad as a side often in summer. I’ve used many different fruit dressing recipes but they’ve always come up short. This is so easy and used ingredients Amost of us have on hand. I followed the recipe as written and the family loved it and voted it a keeper. You sure do make my life easier, Karly. Thanks again.
Karly says
Yay! So glad this was a hit! 🙂
Laura says
There’s nothing like a good fruit salad! I love the idea of putting brown sugar and cinnamon on the fruit! Thanks for the inspiration!