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Transform your favorite fruits into an edible bauble with this beautiful Christmas Fruit Salad. The fun presentation adds a pop of color to any holiday table, and the bite-sized fruit pieces are perfect for snacking, making it easy to add nutrients to a sugar-filled holiday. 

A white plate with neatly arranged sections of strawberries, cantaloupe, mango, and honeydew melon arranged to look like a bauble.

I love indulgent holiday treats like my chocolate snowflakes and cookies for Santa, and I make them with my kids every year. However, when hosting a holiday meal, I also include veggie and fruit-filled side dishes like my snowglobe burrata platter, smiling Santa caprese, and this easy Christmas fruit salad recipe. 

Featuring strawberries, cantaloupe, mango, and honeydew arranged in a beautiful gradient, this easy platter is a real showstopper. Enjoy it as a snack or serve it for dessert with ice cream, cake, or whipped cream! You can even mix and match different in-season fruits to enjoy the platter any time of year.

Salad Dressing

For an easy fruit salad dressing, mix 2 tablespoons of honey with the juice of 2 limes, then pour over the fruit salad when serving.

❤️Why You’ll Love this Christmas Fruit Salad

  • Perfect light dessert with a festive presentation.
  • Perfect for crowds.
  • Customizable according to the fruit you have available.

Key Ingredients

Please be sure to scroll down to the recipe card below for the complete details!

A mango, a small bowl of strawberries, a halved Galia melon, and a whole cantaloupe.
  • Strawberries: Choose bright red, firm berries.
  • Mango: The best mangos for this are firm, but with a slight give.
  • Cantaloupe: The ones with the orange flesh.
  • Galia melon: The ones with the green flesh.

Possible Variations

  • Strawberries: Swap for pomegranate arils, cranberries, figs, raspberries, red grapes, cherries, or watermelon.
  • Melons: Try honeydew, yellow watermelon, canary melon, kiwi, green apples, pear, or green grapes.
  • Mango: Or banana, star fruit, peach, pineapple, or papaya.
  • Presentation: Arrange the fruit randomly for a different look.
  • Cookie cutters: Use star-shaped cutters to make fun shapes out of fruit. Arrange in a row on top of the fruit salad.
  • Garnish: Edible flowers, fresh lemon balm, or mint.

How to Make a Christmas Fruit Salad

A cantaloupe slice on a wooden cutting board, showing the orange flesh and seeds inside.
  1. Prepare the bauble: Slice the cantaloupe and shape it into a round bauble.
A person inserts a wooden stick into a round slice of cantaloupe on a wooden cutting board.
  1. Cut two holes with a skewer, then push a piece of string through.
A hand slices a strawberry on a wooden cutting board with several whole strawberries nearby.
  1. Prepare the fruit: Halve the strawberries, and cube the two melons and mango.
Hands arranging a Christmas Fruit Salad on a plate, with one hand holding a circular bauble made out of cantaloupe with string, next to silver ornaments on a gray surface.
  1. Assemble: Arrange the fruit and top with the bauble.

How to Store Leftovers

Keep them in an airtight container in the fridge and enjoy within 2 days.

Christmas Fruit Salad FAQs

Can I prepare the christmas fruit salad in advance?

Yes. Make it a few hours ahead, drizzle it with lemon or lime juice, and cover with plastic wrap. Store the platter in the refrigerator until you are ready to serve.

What can I serve the christmas fruit salad with?

Ice cream, whipping cream, chocolate chips, or my creamy custard.

Can I use frozen fruit for the christmas fruit salad?

Fresh fruit is best for this recipe.

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A white plate with neatly arranged sections of strawberries, cantaloupe, mango, and honeydew melon arranged to look like a bauble.
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Servings: 6 people

Christmas Fruit Salad

By Sine Siemkowicz
Festive fruit platter with melon, berries, and mango.
Prep: 20 minutes
Cook: 0 minutes
Total: 20 minutes
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Equipment

Ingredients 

  • 9 strawberries
  • 1 cantaloupe
  • 1 mango
  • 1 Galia melon

Instructions 

  • Slice a piece of cantaloupe. Set this aside.
  • Use the round cutter to make the bauble shape out of cantaloupe.
  • Make two holes with a metal straw or skewer.
  • Push the string through.
  • Halve the strawberries and place these first.
  • Cube the remaining cantaloupe, mango and galia, and place them in this order next to the strawberry.
  • Place the bauble at the top of the platter and serve.

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Nutrition

Calories: 135kcal, Carbohydrates: 33g, Protein: 2g, Fat: 1g, Saturated Fat: 0.2g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.3g, Monounsaturated Fat: 0.1g, Sodium: 67mg, Potassium: 716mg, Fiber: 3g, Sugar: 30g, Vitamin A: 3594IU, Vitamin C: 72mg, Calcium: 28mg, Iron: 1mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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