Description
This Halloween Fruit Salad features a festive medley of fresh and canned fruits such as cantaloupe pumpkins, blackberries, mandarin oranges, cherries, golden berries, and apricots, tossed in a sweet and tangy honey-orange dressing. Perfect for a healthy and visually appealing treat for Halloween gatherings.
Ingredients
Scale
Fruit
- 1 ripe cantaloupe melon
- 16 ounces blackberries
- 15 ounces canned mandarin oranges, drained
- 8 ounces dark cherries or grapes, pitted
- 6 ounces golden berries, halved
- 4 ripe apricots, pitted and sliced
Dressing
- 1 small orange, juiced and zested (about 1 tablespoon zest and 3 tablespoons juice)
- 2 tablespoons honey
Instructions
- Prepare the cantaloupe: Cut the cantaloupe into 1-inch slices. Use a small pumpkin cookie cutter to cut out pumpkin shapes from the slices to add a festive Halloween touch.
- Combine the fruits: Add the cantaloupe pumpkins, blackberries, mandarin oranges, cherries, golden berries, and apricots into a large mixing bowl.
- Make the dressing: In a small bowl, whisk together the orange zest, orange juice, and honey until well combined and smooth.
- Toss the salad: Drizzle the honey-orange dressing over the mixed fruits and gently stir them together to evenly coat the salad without bruising the fruit.
- Serve immediately: Enjoy the Halloween fruit salad fresh for best taste and texture.
Notes
- The mini pumpkin cookie cutter isn’t necessary but adds a fun festive Halloween shape for presentation.
- You can customize this fruit salad by substituting or adding your preferred fruits; the orange-and-black color theme is just a suggestion.
- Using orange zest and juice brightens the flavor; navel oranges are great, but blood or Cara Cara oranges work well too.
- Include at least one melon, one citrus, and one type of berry for a balanced flavor base in your fruit salads.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 cup
- Calories: 90 kcal
- Sugar: 15 g
- Sodium: 5 mg
- Fat: 0.2 g
- Saturated Fat: 0 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 0.1 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 22 g
- Fiber: 3 g
- Protein: 1 g
- Cholesterol: 0 mg
