Fruit Salad is my favorite kind of salad! Growing up, my mother would make an enormous fruit salad a couple of times during the summer. Fruit Salad became a sign of summer.

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Serving Bowl

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Large Stirring Spoon

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Plastic Wrap or a lid for the serving bowl if not serving immediately

This Fruit Salad recipe is so easy to make. Everything gets tossed into a large bowl. A quick stir, and it is ready to serve. This really is a lovely dessert or side dish for cook outs, BBQ’s, potlucks, or garden parties. Perhaps you’re planning a Brunch for Mother’s Day or some other occasion, fruit salad would be a wonderfully fruity addition.

Fruit Salad is a simple, light dessert that is perfect for your next cookout.

I prefer using canned fruit with it’s own juices. Canned chunk pineapple in pineapple juice along with canned sliced peaches in peach juice start this recipe. I pour them into a very large bowl. To minimize clumping, I added the vanilla pudding mix next and gave it a good stir to remove all clumps. Canned mandarin oranges with juice gets added with a quick stir.

I might need to plan a cookout just so I have an excuse to make this Fruit Salad.

Now, I add my fresh fruit. Red Grapes (my kids’ choice), strawberries that have been roughly chopped, and blueberries are all added. I gave it a quick stir then added a tiny bit of coconut extract. The coconut extract just seems to brighten it and gives it a more tropical feel. Be sure to keep the fruit salad in the refrigerator covered until you are ready to serve it. If your serving bowl doesn’t have a lid, some plastic wrap will do the trick.