14 Stunning Christmas Fruit Salads
From stunning fruit trays to our super popular Christmas chocolate salad, these fruit salad recipes are perfect for your Christmas menu. Let the holiday season begin!
Christmas is just around the corner and once again you’re hosting the big family feast for your family and friends. You’re planning your menu and while you no doubt have to have some traditional Christmas fare, it’s sometimes nice to mix it up a little.
When it comes to dessert, some of the more traditional Christmas sweet finishes include mince pies, Christmas fruit cake, stollen or a yule log. Down under where we are, we traditionally have pavlova and trifle.
While these may make an appearance more often than not, we think it’s time to amp up the dessert table with something a little more fresh, fun and easier to put together.
We love creating fruit salads with a difference. And by different we don’t mean difficult. In fact, they are simple to make. We love adding a little something extra to our well-considered combinations of fruit.
From tapioca pearls to fairy floss to granita, these fruit salads are perfect for Christmas!
We also love them because they can either be individually served up or easy enough to pick up by hand. No fuss in terms of having to dish it up and serve it.
Amongst our fruit salad collection, our most sought after and popular Christmas dessert is our Christmas Chocolate Salad. We promise you that it’s a showstopper and your guests of all ages will love it.
We hope you’ll find a recipe that will appeal to you. Happy holidays and may you have a wonderful Christmas with your loved ones!
Christmas Fruit Platter: Chocolate Salad
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What could bring more festive joy than a Christmas Chocolate Salad? Appealing to the young and old, this easy to make platter of chocolate and fruits will be a fitting end to any Christmas gathering!
This is a make ahead chocolate platter that you can set and forget so you can free up more time to entertain your guests.
Black Fruit Salad with Tea Rose Syrup
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Inspired by the popular rose flavours of the Middle East, this rose syrup over sweet fruit is a wonderful way to end an already fabulous festive dinner party.
Made ahead of time, this Black Fruit Salad is easy, fuss free and ever so stunning when served.
Gold Kiwi Salad with Tangelo Granita
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Fruit salads aren’t just cut up fruit in a bowl! We love adding a bit of pizzazz and we make no exception of this Gold Kiwi Salad.
The sublime tangelo granita is not only easy to make at home and a dessert you can make ahead of time but makes for the best summer dessert!
Red and Green Fruit Salad with Vanilla Persian Fairy Floss
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Deck the glasses of red and green fruit with heavenly strands of Persian fairy floss. This festive fruit salad will bring so much joy, fun and frivolity.
All the wonderful traits of a good holiday season.
Rock melon and Passionfruit Salad with Chocolate Honeycomb
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Refreshing combination of rock melon, golden kiwi and passionfruit topped with indulgent crushed chocolate honeycomb to create a zippy sweet no-cook dessert salad that will wow the crowds.
Plum Wine Infused Dragon Fruit Salad
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Looking for a fruit salad with a little sophistication and a touch of sweet wickedness for the holidays?
We douse the stunning looking white dragon fruit with aromatic Japanese plum wine and add some blueberries to create mouthfuls of sensational flavours. This Dragon Fruit Salad is not for the faint hearted!
Brown Sugar Grilled Pineapple Salad with Lemon Curd
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Brown Sugar Grilled Pineapple. Now, doesn’t that sound simply glorious?
And to complement it with velvety and tangy lemon curd, you’ll have a dessert fruit salad worthy for all your entertaining needs!
Pomegranate and Red Dragon Fruit Salad
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We love colour in our salad recipes and understand how it can tie into the theme of a dinner. This Red Dragon Fruit Salad is delicious and eye catching, naturally dyed red in the juices of the dragon fruit.
Stone Fruit Salad with Tapioca Pearls
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This sweet Stone Fruit Salad served with tapioca pearls and a drizzle of homemade orange syrup is such a fun way to end an evening of entertaining.
Let your guests help themselves as they build their own little bowl of perfection.
Summer Berry Salad with Sumac Dusted Meringues
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Want to add a touch of fun to an otherwise simple Summer Berry Salad?
Pop these delectable meringue moments amidst the freshest of berries and watch everyone smash through this dessert fruit salad like they hadn’t eaten in days!
Best Watermelon Salad with Maple Syrup Dressing
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Take advantage of the many varieties of melons to create a delicious fruit salad with a sweet and tangy flavour. This is the Best Watermelon Salad and is the perfect end to a great meal.
Cherry Tamarillo Salad with Lemon Thyme
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Our Cherry Tamarillo Salad is no ordinary fruit salad. The rich, deep colours intertwined with the equally rich, deep flavours, make for a sophisticated dinner party dessert fruit salad.
Red Fruit Salad with Dark Chocolate Biscuit Soil
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Would you like to transform a simple Red Fruit Salad into a sophisticated, delicious masterpiece? Not only is it gorgeous, there is no cooking, is super easy and oh so stylish!
Fruit Platter Presentation Ideas
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Fresh fruit platters and fruit trays don’t have to be boring and lifeless. There are many ways to make them look extraordinary and elicit those “wow” moments!
We give you the ultimate fruit platter presentation ideas and how to put them together.
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What a stunning collection of salads! They all look beautiful but the first one with chocolate is calling my name!! That would be such a fab dessert!
It sure is! Everyone will love it!
These are just stunning! I love that they all have a festive feel, but are also healthy and look beautiful too. Thanks for all the ideas – but where to start?!
Start with the Christmas chocolate salad! Everyone will love you!
Wow, these are all beautiful. I am going to give a couple of them a try over Christmas.
That’s awesome Dannii! Let us know how you went. Happy Holidays!
Those are some stunning salads for the winter.
Thank you so much!
These salads all look delicious!! I’ve never heard of a chocolate salad before – that’s going to be the first one I try!
You’ll never look back after you make that chocolate salad! You’ll be the favourite person in the room!
All these salad recipe are mouthwatering! I just can’t wait to try them all. My husband will be delighted!
Lucky husband! Enjoy!
Wow!! These salads are so stunning! The Christmas Chocolate Salad looks divine!
Thank you! Yup, that’s the favourite amongst all our family and friends!
These are beautiful and delicious!
Thank you so much!
Amazing salads! They are perfect for the holidays. So delicious and look the part! Thank you!
You welcome! Yes, hoping that it will give everyone some inspiration this Christmas!
Your salads make me miss the tropics. Your collections are like an island where we should all come to be inspired. Thank you for this beautiful work.
LOL! I love that! All these delicious fruits. I feel very lucky that I’m able to find them on a regular basis.