Creamy Hawaiian Fruit Salad Recipe (Easy to Make)

This creamy Hawaiian fruit salad recipe is the perfect blend of creamy goodness and tropical fruit! It’s also such an easy recipe to throw together and is always a crowd-pleaser!

We love to pair this creamy fruit salad with a Hawaiian movie night! It works great with Lilo and Stitch, 50 First Dates, or Just Go with It! We also love it for a Moana Movie Night or a Hawaii Themed Movie Night!

We chose to use fruit cocktail, but you can use fresh fruit if you prefer.

You’ll love this recipe as a special movie night at home, potlucks, and family dinner!

What Ingredients Do You Need For This Tropical Fruit Salad Recipe?

• 30 oz can fruit cocktail, drained
• 20 oz can pineapple chunks, drained 
• 8 oz can mandarin oranges, drained
• 10.5 oz package miniature marshmallows
• 16 oz Cool Whip
• 8 oz Cream Cheese, room temperature

What Other Ingredients Can You Put Into This Yummy Fruit Salad?

You can always mix in mangoes, kiwi, fresh strawberries, grapes, banana slices, and even nuts to this delicious fruit salad. If you do bananas, remember they’ll brown pretty quickly, so serve it fresh. Using a lemon juice on them will help them from turning as fast as well.

You can also add in more maraschino cherries if you’d like to make it more like a typical ambrosia fruit salad. 

For a more tropical flavor, you could add in 1 cup of coconut flakes.

If your taste buds like more of a tangy flavor, you can add in 1/3-1/2 cup sour cream or Greek yogurt as well.

You could also use vanilla yogurt if you don’t have cream cheese.

How to Make This Hawaiian Fruit Salad Recipe

This is such an easy fruit salad to quip together!

1. Drain your fruit cocktail, pineapple chunks, and mandarin oranges thoroughly (We drain ours hours before or take a few paper towels to get the juice to a minimum)
2. With a hand mixer, mix your Cool Whip and room temperature cream cheese together in a large mixing bowl until it makes a smooth mixture.
3. Combine the cream cheese mix with the canned fruit you’ve drained.
4. Fold in your mini marshmallows into the whipped topping and fruit.

It’s that easy to make! The best part? This delicious dessert is even better the next day!

You may also like Hawaiian Banana Bread for your movie night!

Thinking of visiting Hawaii in real life? We have a great 5 Day Maui Itinerary we used when we went!

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Yield: 10

Creamy Hawaiian Fruit Salad Recipe

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Total Time: 15 minutes

This creamy Hawaiian fruit salad recipe is the perfect blend of creamy goodness and tropical fruit! It's also such an easy recipe to throw together and is always a crowd-pleaser!

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Ingredients

• 30 oz can fruit cocktail, drained
• 20 oz can pineapple tidbits or chunks, drained 
• 8 oz can mandarin oranges, drained
• 10.5 oz package miniature marshmallows
• 16 oz Cool Whip
• 8 oz Cream Cheese, room temperature

Instructions

1. Drain your fruit cocktail, pineapple chunks, and mandarin oranges thoroughly (We drain ours hours before or take a few paper towels to get the juice to a minimum)
2. With a hand mixer, mix your Cool Whip and room temperature cream cheese together in a large mixing bowl until it makes a smooth mixture.
3. Combine the cream cheese mix with the canned fruit you've drained.
4. Fold in your mini marshmallows into the whipped topping and fruit.

Notes

You can also add in more maraschino cherries if you'd like to make it more like a typical ambrosia fruit salad. 

For a more tropical flavor, you could add in 1 cup coconut flakes.

If your taste buds like more of a tangy flavor, you can add in 1/3-1/2 cup sour cream or Greek yogurt as well.

You could also use vanilla yogurt if you don't have cream cheese.

Nutrition Information:

Yield:

10

Serving Size:

1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 425Total Fat: 22gSaturated Fat: 14gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 5gCholesterol: 46mgSodium: 179mgCarbohydrates: 58gNet Carbohydrates: 56gFiber: 2gSugar: 47gProtein: 4g

Nutrition is only an approximate and may not be accurate.