Like this Winter version? Also try my go-to classic fruit salad recipe filled with summer fruit.

Winter Fruit Salad Recipe

Typically we think of fruit salads as a summer side dish but there's still an abundance of fruit in season during winter so why not take advantage of that and make a healthy winter fruit salad?

I first shared this recipe eight years ago and we've made it several times each year since. It's so good it almost passes as a tempting dessert!

This is a great dish to add to a holiday menu because there are often lots of heavy sides served but this is a light, refreshing and nutritious option to help balance those out a bit.

You'll find this inviting fruit salad is so easy to make and it adds so much festive natural color to your table.

Just keep in mind the most important thing about a fruit salad is the quality of the fruit. You want the fruit to have a sweet ripe flavor and firm enough texture that it won't get mushy.

From there the honey and lemon will just balance and highlight all of it's natural, fresh fruity goodness.

Try these other fruit pizza favorites: Sugar Cookie Fruit Pizzas and Brownie Fruit Pizzas.

In this fruit pizza recipe you get a soft and tender sugar cookie base that's covered with a rich cream cheese topping, and layered with a generous amount of vibrantly flavored fresh fruit.

Then it's finished with a sweet apricot jam which gives the pizza the perfect finishing sheen.

Simply put it's a staple summer recipe! I love to make it at least once every summer and top it with a colorful variety of seasonal fruit.

You just can't go wrong with a cookie topped with a sweet and tangy frosting, lots of tasty fruit and a simple fruit pizza glaze.

And the possibilities of how it can be decorated with creative patterns are endless. Such a fun dessert that everyone will love!

The Best Fruit Salad Recipe

I first shared this recipe 5 years ago but it's one of my favorite recipes, so for new readers or in case you missed it I thought it needs to be revisited. Plus I thought this exactly what mom's want on Mother's Day for brunch paired with waffles, crepes or Eggs Benedict!

I know Skittles are good, but I'm thinking this has got to be the right way to get a taste of the rainbow. This blend of colorful fruits all come together to make a gorgeous rainbow, made with healthy ingredients!

Kids will love this this fruit salad and it is an easy way to get them to eat plenty of fruit at once.

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A Fruit Salad Dressing without Cream or Pudding

Plus this version is so much butter than those frozen whipped topping fruit salads.

This recipe shows you how to make fruit salad without the heavy, creamy fruit salad dressing that you're used to seeing. It leaves plenty of room for all the flavors of the fruit to shine without drenching it in sugar and other random flavors.

Plus it doesn't use any of those packaged pudding mixes. Why should we coat all the vibrant and incredible flavors of the fruit with an artificial flavor from a pudding mix?

Let's not ruin a good thing like fresh fruit by coating it with packaged ingredients where we can't even pronounce the ingredients on the label.

All it takes is a little honey and lime to really make that fresh fruit sing. 100% natural honey and lime make this fruit salad shine (literally and figuratively).

Brownie Fruit Pizza

Do you need much more in life than this colorfully fruit laced, sweet cream cheese frosted, decadently delicious and over-the-top brownie goodness? This is what I call the finer things in life.

It's made with a soft, chewy perfectly chocolatey brownie base that's made from scratch and a sweet cream cheese topping. Then the fresh colorful fruit adds such a beautiful design that no one can resist!

Fruit Salsa with Baked Cinnamon Tortilla Chips

You know I'm all about the dips and salsas, especially when they involve something sweet. I'm totally in love!

I've always been a big fan of baked or fried sugar and cinnamon chips (I make these baked ones all the time), but I've actually never paired them with fruit salsa until now. But let me tell you, it is a match meant to be!

I adapted this recipe from Carrian and Kade Cheney's new cookbook, Our Sweet Basil Kitchen.

This is a wonderful cookbook filled with pretty pictures and more than 100 family-friendly recipes. There are so many recipes I cannot wait to try!

If you'd like to buy a copy for yourself, you can order the cookbook from Amazon. After trying this delicious fruit salsa, I'm excited to make more!

Fruit Salsa Ingredients

For the fresh fruit salsa, you'll need:

• Peach or nectarine
• Mango
• Kiwis
• Strawberries
• Strawberry jam
• Fresh lemon juice

Cinnamon Chips Ingredients

The cinnamon sugar chips are so easy to make! You'll need:

• Granulated sugar
• Cinnamon
• Flour tortillas
• Butter

How to Make Fruit Salsa and Cinnamon Chips

• To make the fruit salsa, dice the fruit into bite-sized pieces and add to a bowl.
• Toss with the strawberry jam and lemon juice.
• To make the cinnamon tortilla chips, first stir together the cinnamon and sugar.
• Brush the flour tortillas with butter, then dust with homemade cinnamon sugar.
• Cut the tortillas into wedges and bake until golden brown.

Can I Use Corn Tortillas Instead of Flour?

Corn tortillas would taste quite different and have a different texture and mouthfeel, I recommend sticking with flour tortillas for this recipe.

Does Fruit Salsa Stay Fresh for Long?

This fresh fruit salsa is best enjoyed within two hours of making it. The fruit will release more and more liquid the longer it sits, so I wouldn't recommend making this salsa too far in advance.

Can I Add Different Fruits to This Salsa?

Of course! You can use any fruits you want, although I personally think softer fruits are the best in this salsa (berries, stone fruits, etc).

Tips for the Best Fruit Salsa and Cinnamon Chips

• The cinnamon chips won't be fully crisp when you take them out of the oven. They need a few minutes to cool on the baking sheet to crisp up properly.
• Give this fruit salsa a good stir before serving it, as the fruit juices will collect at the bottom of the bowl.
• Fresh, in-season fruit is best for this recipe. I don't recommend using frozen fruit here (too runny and mushy).

More Fresh Fruit Recipes You'll Love:

• Fruit Pizza
• Sugar Cookie Fruit Pizzas (Chewy Version)
• Honey Lime Rainbow Fruit Salad
• Berry Fruit Salad with Honey Balsamic Dressing
• Berry Cheesecake Fruit Salad
• Brownie Fruit Pizza
• Creamy Cinnamon Apple and Walnut Fruit Salad

The Perfect Green Smoothie Recipe!

January is all about smoothies right? Maybe come February I might get bored of them but for now I'm still making them every day.

Smoothies are the best way for me to get my kids to eat plenty of fruits and vegetables in one sitting, and myself too of course.

This Cold Buster Green Smoothie is an immune-boosting smoothie that is packed with healthy ingredients to help fight off a cold.

Surprisingly I haven't gotten a cold yet this winter (fingers crossed I don't) but if I do I'll definitely be turning to this. Smoothies are soothing to a sore throat, plus there's just not a lot of food that sounds great when you've got a cold other than something sip-able like cold or warm drinks and soups.

Is there anything more refreshing than an ice-cold smoothie during these hot summer months? During the summer my family is always making smoothies so I was so excited to see this new cookbook by Deborah Harroun. Best 100 Smoothies for Kids is packed with easy smoothie recipes that are sure to please both young and old alike. I love that they are no sugar-added recipes so I can serve them up to my kids any time of day and feel great about it.

The first smoothie I knew I had to try from this book was the Double-Decker Tropical Avocado Smoothie. Their name just says it all! I used to question avocado in smoothies but once you try it, you'll see they work wonders. As long as you are adding them in with other ingredients you don't really taste them, more than anything they just add a wonderful creaminess to a smoothie. I usually add a banana to an avocado smoothie recipe for texture and sweetness, but I loved the way they paired with kiwi, pineapple juice, and mangoes in this recipe! Then you get that simple top layer that consists of strawberries and coconut milk, I blended up a a little extra because I knew I'd love this layer. (Plus it's dairy-free for anyone sensitive to milk or yogurt!)

Hello, summer/hello popsicle and ice cream season! At long last, I'm finally getting into the whole popsicle thing. I've always been more hooked on ice cream but then I realized how incredibly awesome you can make popsicles on a hot summer day. This summer I'll be making popsicles all the time and not just at my kids' request. The flavor possibilities and combinations are as endless as the ingredients in your fridge!

Homemade Watermelon Popsicles

I absolutely love these layered Watermelon Popsicles, as did my kids! They are made with mostly fruit, a few chocolate chips and then the white portion is coconut milk. So as long as you use good, ripe fruit the flavors will be utterly delicious and irresistibly refreshing. If you don't have enough ripe watermelon, or your watermelon puree isn't as pink as you want, you can also add strawberries or raspberries. I also like to add fresh mint leaves or fresh lime juice to the watermelon—the best flavor combination!

I made this watermelon popsicle recipe a few times trying to find the best way to keep the layers from blending but you'll probably always find just a little bit even if you are keeping the sides very clean.

Another thing that will likely be hard to avoid is that some will be more "water-logged" than others (as in some of them will have a little separation on the bottom because of the high concentration of water in watermelon) leaving a lighter portion on top of a few of them, but they will still taste just as delicious - it's just watermelon juice.

If you'd like you could also cut up little raisins to use for the seeds but I always love a little chocolate if you don't mind the added sugar. Honey, agave, or maple syrup can also help with the sweetness if you don't want to add refined sugar.

Light coconut milk would probably work fine too, it won't be quite as white and not quite as creamy but should still be delicious. Sticking with coconut milk makes these a good vegan dessert—but if you're ok with dairy you can also use Greek yogurt.

I've been intending on posting a fruit pizza recipe for the last two summers (the full pizza sized kind). I'm just now getting around to it, but I decided to just do the individual portions instead. It takes out the cutting step (which equals less mess) plus they seem easier to decorate this way.

We had a combined family birthday party this past weekend (two of my brothers and I share a birthday week, all within 6 days of each other), and since everyone was bringing cakes I decided to add some cookies in there.

Every single one of these got eaten in no time! Both kids and adults alike loved them. Really who could resist? You get this soft sugar cookie that just melts away in your mouth, then it's topped with this most amazing, freshly lemon flavored cream cheese frosting, and they are finished off with plenty of fresh fruit.

I'm sure I will be making these incredibly delicious cookies many more times this summer, especially with all the fresh fruit in season. It's one of my favorite parts of summer, that abundance of fresh fruit.

Try these soon, you know you're going to love them!