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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
i would like to know if it can be made ahead and taken somewhere??
I would whip some real heavy cream in place of coolwhip. I don’t purchase artificial ‘foods’.
Do you think it would be good or work with coconut cream?
Could you use Philadelphia cheesecaka filling and to make it fluffy add the cool whip?
I’m making this for a potluck is refrigerated it okay until time?
Did you refrigerate it hours before? Did it turn out ok?
I made it without refrigerating it for hours and it was delicious!
If you are not planning in serving it right away (such as taking it to a potluck or a party), can you still mix the cheesecake fluff into the berries? Or is it better to mix them separately and mix together once at the event? And in case of leftovers (hah), how long would it keep in the fridge?
I need to know this answer also!!
I had the same question, anyone know???
My question exactly!!
Is this something that can be made ahead of time and kept in the fridge until I’m ready to serve it? Also is there anything you’d do differently to double the recipe?
Perfect! Thank you!!!
for Very Berry Cheesecake Salad I substituted “Dream Whip” for the Cool Whip….OMG amazing!!
Looks Delish…low carb by any chance?
If you sub the sugar out fora sweetener (we like/use erythritol) and use real heavy whipping cream it would be more low carb/keto ?
I did this keto style. I used heavy whipping cream and Stevia as substitutes. I just need to be careful and not devour the whole thing at one time! I also added roasted pecans 🙂
How long does this stay good? It says serve immediately but I figured you can refrigerate it if you want it again the next day 🙂 I am making this today, can’t wait to try it!
Can I mix the cream cheese sugar and whip cream together and refrigerate it until I need it?I have a funeral tomorrow and would love to make it for the repast..
Hi Whats Cool Whip?
Cool Whip is whip cream that comes frozen usually in a tub.
Well, it’s a substitute for whipped cream. It’s white, light and airy.
Made this last night and it was amazing! It was super easy and a great dessert for the warm months! A nice change from regular fruit salad.
In my country this would be a dessert not a side. 😉
Haha! That’s why I categorized it as both! But it has fruit so it is somewhat healthy right? 😉
Is this granulated sugar or powder sugar
Granulated. 🙂
In some parts of the US it’d be a dessert but in others it could just as easily be a side dish. It’s a country verses city thing here.
I live in the Appalachian Mountains/ the country and we would use this as a side, the same as ambrosia salad or fruit salad.
We’re the same here, SO much fruit gets eaten! But usually we just blend it all into a smoothie (which can get kind of boring!) so I will definitely have to try your recipe! And thank you so much for suggesting the cool whip substitution – I can’t get it around here and I always get SO frustrated when I see a yummy recipe using it!