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Berry Cheesecake Salad has only the freshest berries combined with a creamy cheesecake fluff. This is so amazing and will be the hit of any gathering!
Cheesecake and berries makes a perfect combination! Here are more berry cheesecake recipes that are a MUST make, like these Bars, Brownies or Cheesecake.
Berry Cheesecake Salad
I am loving the fresh and delicious berries that are starting to pop up in the stores right now. I love fresh fruit! We eat so much fruit around here it is crazy. I am always trying to think of yummy ways to use up our fruit. This is probably hands down my family’s all-time favorite fruit salad. It is a little bit sweet, a little bit creamy, and a whole lot of scrumptious. With berries and cream cheese, it’s sure to be a winner!
Yes, I know, you are looking at the ingredients and thinking it’s a dessert, not a salad. It’s a salad or dessert. I’ll let you decide. I will tell you though, I took this to a large gathering and it was scraped clean in a matter of minutes. The berries are so refreshing and the cream cheese fluff is light and a little bit sweet. Everyone is going to love this incredible side dish, you will not have to worry about leftovers, which is a good thing. This salad only stores well for about 2 days. Make this for your next potluck or BBQ and watch the rave reviews come in. This is so GOOD!
What You Need For Berry Cheesecake
Super easy and fast, it’s perfect for when you need a dynamite salad fast!
- Cream cheese: Leaving the cream cheese on the counter for an hour will help softened it when blending it together.
- Sugar: This adds in the sweetness! It will alter your taste but using less sugar or substituting it for a lower calorie sugar works too.
- Cool Whip: This is found in the freezer isle near the ice cream. Make sure to let it thaw before using in the cheesecake salad.
- Strawberries: Slice the strawberries into fourths or long ways for bite sized spoonfuls.
- Blackberries, Blueberries and Raspberries: Fresh, washed, and ripe are the best for this salad.
How to Make Cheesecake Salad with Berries
Super creamy and fresh, this is an absolute summer must make!
- Creamy filling: In a large bowl, beat together cream cheese and sugar until smooth and creamy. Fold in the thawed cool whip.
- Fold and serve; Add strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, blueberries, and raspberries. Fold carefully into the cream cheese mixture. Serve immediately.
Very Berry Creamy Cheesecake Salad Tips and Variations
This salad is almost a dessert, but no one will care, it is just too good!
- Fruit: Look for the ripest, freshest berries you can find. They should be firm, but not underripe, vibrant colors, and free from blemishes. Slice the strawberries till they are bite-size for easy eating. The berries you will not need to cut.
- Frozen Fruit: I do not like to use frozen fruit, because the berries release too much liquid and your salad may become a mushy mess. To help alleviate that you can rinse the frozen fruit, once it’s thawed, with water till it runs clear. The fruit will still not be as plump and firm, but it will still taste delicious.
- Cream Cheese: To ensure everything mixes in smoothly, make sure your cream cheese is really soft, and then beat it really well. It makes the berries easier to mix in as well.
- Cool whip topping: A great substitute for cool whip would be 2 cups of vanilla yogurt.
- Sugar: If you are worried about the sugar dissolving use powdered sugar instead of granulated. It will give you a smoother consistency. I kind of like the little bit of crunch regular sugar gives.
- Flavors: You can add a bit of flavor to your salad by adding 1/2 tsp of vanilla, or almond extract. Or add lemon or lime zest for a bit of zing.
- Stir in: Add broken-up chocolate-covered graham crackers, cookies, or even chopped snickers for more of a dessert than a salad.
What to serve with Berry Salad
You are going to love how light and refreshing this salad is, and the fact that it’s a bit sweet means it will go perfectly with a meaty, savory main dish. Perfect for your next Potluck or BBQ, this salad brings both color and flavor to the table. I will warn you it is addicting, so you may want to double the recipe so you have enough.
More Berry Salads
Berries are a delicious part of summer. They are ripe and bursting with juicy sweetness. We love just eating them by the hand full, but to add them to salads is divine. It’s a wonderful way to sneak extra fruit into your diet! These salads with fruit in them make them refreshing, light, and inviting. These fruit salads will be the perfect side dish for your next big gathering or BBQ.
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Very Berry Cheesecake Salad
Ingredients
- 1 (8 ounces) cream cheese softened
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 8 ounces cool whip thawed*
- 6 cups berries I used:
- 3 cups strawberries sliced
- 1 cup blackberries
- 1 cup blueberries
- 1 cup raspberries
Instructions
- In a large bowl, beat together cream cheese and sugar until smooth and creamy. Fold in the thawed cool whip.
- Add strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, blueberries, and raspberries. Fold carefully into the cream cheese mixture. Serve immediately.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
A Reader’s Review
“Made this yesterday for a family BBQ, and it was a total hit!! People were raving about it and asking for the recipe!! So simple to make and so light and refreshing! I made it exactly as written except I doubled the recipe, and it was all gone except for a little that I hid away for myself for later!! Thanks for sharing!!” -Bobby
Can I use bananas in this berry salad?
Thank you for your question. Yes, you can add bananas, just keep in mind that bananas brown so add them right before serving. If you have leftovers, just know your bananas will be brown. I hope this helps! Let me know how it tastes if you add them, sounds yummy!
I’m going to make this for a family reunion next month. It sounds delicious. I will keep the fruit and the cheesecake mixture separate until I’m ready to serve it.
What a fun idea! Your family is going to love it! Great idea to keep them separate!
How long will this keep. Can you freeze to last longer
Thank you for your question! It’s best to serve this fresh, but if you keep it in the fridge in an airtight container it will last 3-4 days. If you plan to make it ahead of time, store the cheesecake filling and fruit separately. I don’t recommend freezing this, the berries will be mushy after thawing. I hope this helps!
can you add angel food cake pieces to the recipe
Sure! That sounds amazing!
This recipe is so easy but so delicious!! I put some almond extract in it also…yumm!!
I think it would be good on a graham cracker crust also. Think I’m going to try that!
LOVE this salad….its always a hit. My brother suggested it would also be great frozen with a graham crust. Has anyone tried a frozen version? We love ours with blackberries, raspberries, blueberries and straw berries……this is an amazing recipe
That sounds delicious! Let me know if you try it and how that turns out!
My family and I love this berry salad. After a couple days, the leftovers always seem to get watery or runny. Anyone else have this problem or offer suggestions on how to keep it fluffy?
The leftovers on this only last a day, maybe two! But you could try adding in some additional cool whip right before serving if you do have extra leftovers.
Thank you! I will try that.
This Recipe was delicious I took it to my nephews birthday party and it was a big hit ! People was asking for the recipe. There was nothing left!
Can I make this a day or 2 in advance?
Yes, just make sure to store it in the fridge in an airtight container.
Can you just use the same recipe but not mix the berries and the fluff and use the fluff as a topping or dip for the berries? I have some family members who don’t do sugar and some who do.
Sure! That’s a really great idea!
GREAT SALAD!!!
I was preparing for my 4th of July bbq and saw I didn’t have anything plan for the berries I bought so I went googling. I looked at many berry salad recipes but when I found this one..thought this one is it! Had the few ingredents and it looked so easy to make. It was a 4th of July hit! Red(strawberries/raspberry), white (cream cheese/coolwhip) and blue(blueberries) 4th of July must! I used 2 cups of each of the berries is all the adjusts I made.
I was preparing for my 4th of July bbq and saw I didn’t have anything plan for the berries I bought so I went googling. I looked at many berry salad recipes but when I found this one..thought this one is it! Had the few ingredents and it looked so easy to make. It was a 4th of July hit! Red(strawberries/raspberry), white (cream cheese/coolwhip) and blue(blueberries) 4th of July must!
Love this one Very Berry Cheesecake Salad, this one seems so unique , never tried like his before, will surely gonna try this one. Thanks for sharing this one with us .
Thanks for sharing this Very Berry Cheesecake Salad, super excited to try this one.
Can you make this ahead and freeze it?
I wouldn’t recommend freezing it. But you could make it a day or two ahead and keep it in your fridge until you are ready to serve it!