Red White and Blue Cheesecake Salad

This Red, White and Blue Cheesecake Salad Recipe is the best dessert to make for all your Memorial Day or July 4th parties. It is creamy, delicious and easy to make. The ingredients are easy and can be changed to what you have on hand.

This fresh fruit salad is perfect for all your summer plan BBQs and Summer potlucks also. This Berry Cheesecake Salad Recipe is eye pleasing and everyone always enjoys how light and refreshing it is so it is perfect for a hot summer day. Try these other holiday desserts, Red White and Blue Drink and Red White and Blue Cake Recipe.

What is Cheesecake Salad?

Cheesecake Salad is not your normal salad. There is no baking involved and there is nothing green about it. We call it cheesecake salad because of the cream cheese that is mixed with the fruit. No need to add in a baked cheesecake.

All the ingredients are mixed together to make a creamy, rich dish.

Why We Love Red White and Blue Salad

• Easy Ingredients – Simple and Easy ingredients that can be found at your local grocery store.
• Patriotic Dessert – We love celebrating with friends and family for Memorial Day and Fourth of July holidays. We challenge every one to bring a red white and blue dessert to serve for a patriotic treat.
• Can Be Modified – We love that we change this no bake dessert to what we have on hand or our diet specification.

Ingredients

• Cream Cheese – Softened at room temperature 
• Powdered Sugar – Adds the perfect amount of sweetness to the cheesecake filling
• Whipped Topping – We used Cool Whip.
• Strawberries – Fresh, Blueberries, Raspberries – Wash and Prepare Berries
• Marshmallows – We think mini works best in this recipe

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Cheesecake Salad Variations

• Use Different Fruits – You can use different fruits such as blackberries, cherries or raspberries to keep the blue and red theme. But you can also toss together pineapple, mango, peaches oranges and grapes for a delicious creamy fruit salad.
• Cream Option – Instead of using cream cheese, you can use strawberry yogurt. Then mix in instant cheesecake pudding or any instant pudding mix to get that cheesecake flavor.
• Bananas – You can mix in bite-size pieces of bananas instead of marshmallows or in addition to the salad.
• Vanilla Extract – To add some additional flavor, you can mix in a splash or a teaspoons vanilla extract.

How to Make Red White and Blue Cheesecake Salad

Step 1 – Beat the cream cheese with a hand mixer until smooth and creamy texture.  Then add in the powdered sugar and mix until well combined in a large bowl with electric mixer. Then gently stir in the whipped cream topping by hand with cream cheese mixture.  

Step 2 – Then gently fold in the fresh berries and marshmallows in the creamy cheesecake mixture.  Be careful not to smash the fruit and do not over mix.  Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve. 

4th of July Cheesecake Salad Tips

• Wash and Clean Fruit – When preparing to make this salad, make sure you wash and clean your fruit thoroughly. We also like to cut the fruit for ease of mixing and eating.
• Get Fresh Fruit – When picking out your fruit to mix in with your salad, make sure it is fresh and ripe. Cut off any rough or bruised areas on the strawberries.
• Make it in advance – This cheesecake salad can be made in advance.  However, I recommend waiting to stir the fruit and marshmallows in until you are ready to serve. 
• Mixing Ingredients – Be careful not to smash the fruit and do not over mix.  
• Cream Cheese – Make sure your cream cheese is at room temperature before trying to mix in the other ingredients.
• Healthier Option – You can use reduce fat cream cheese as well as sugar free cool whip to cut down on the calories.

Cheesecake Salad Toppings

• Chopped Nuts – Top the cheesecake salad with chopped nuts.
• Drizzle with Honey – Drizzle the salad with honey or chocolate syrup.
• Chocolate Chips – Top with mini chocolate chips for even more flavor.