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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’m making this for a big picnic gathering tomorrow and decided to use strawberries, fresh pineapple and cantaloupe. Can’t wait to taste it. I know it will be a hit!
Has anyone tried it in a graham cracker or oreo crust?
That would be delicious! I think I will try that out this weekend. 🙂
It would go together easier if you stirred in just a portion of the Cool Whip to lighten the cream cheese mixture, then folded in the rest. And of course, I’m in the “use whipped cream” camp! Just add some gelatin to help keep it from separating and deflating. It sounds really really good.
Looks so yummy. Making it this weekend.
I can’t wait to make this. I think I will add cubes of angel food cake to the mix. Yumm!
Can you layer this like a parfait, instead of mixing it all together?
Yes definitely!
It would still be good the next day BUT it is definately better eating it the same day. You get a little bit of liquid from the berries the next day.
This could be made Weight Watchers friendly if you used light cream cheese and Truvia! I am going to try it out. Thanks for sharing!
I substitute the cream cheese and sugar with a box of instant vanilla pudding and vanilla Greek yogurt….my families favorite! Oh, and we leave the berries slightly frozen! Yum!
I am a diabetic and I was wondering if I can substitute honey for the sugar?
Yes I think that would work. 🙂
Honey is still sugar…I have diabetics in my family, honey is out. We use Splenda as a substitute.
I would use Splenda and sugar free Cool Whip.
I just made this salad yesterday for Christmas Eve dinner, and I wanted to comment about making it ahead. I made it around 10 am and we ate it around 7 pm. It was great! The fluff was still, uh…fluffy, and it really tastes like a strawberry cheesecake. It’s definitely more like a dessert. If I made it again as a side, I might try omitting some or all of the sugar. We ate leftovers with lunch today, and I would say it’s not the same. It’s still good, but I wouldn’t serve it to guests like it is today. Soupy, but still tasty.
Has anyone used frozen berries?
I saw a lot of people asking questions about making ahead, I made it Tuesday so I could bring it to work for the rest of the week. It still tastes great on Friday and held together very well just a little liquid from washing the berries but that tastes good too!
Thanks Megan for answering……..
Can this recipe be made in advance and refrigerated? I am making it for a pool party tomorrow.
I am not sure because I served mine immediately. Will you let me know if it worked out for you?
We tried it both ways. Made a day ahead, it was still tasty but a bit runny. The second time, we did the fluffy part the night before and added the fruit the next day. Much better!
Wow this was amazing I didn’t have enough berries to just do berries so I added one can of fruit cocktail. This was creamy and so delicious. We had it with grilled chicken, mashed potatoes and the berries. Everyone loved it and had seconds. We had a tiny bit leftover and it was still great the next day.
I made this tonight and poured it into a premade graham cracker crust that I had frozen. I added a little sour cream and vanilla to the filling. I topped it with some fresh berries. It was great! THANKS!