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Secret Ingredient Fruit Salad

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Secret Ingredient Fruit Salad combines that feature with strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, pineapple and grapes for a healthy, kid-friendly treat. | Becky's Best Bites

Secret Ingredient Fruit Salad combines that feature with strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, pineapple and grapes for a  healthy, kid-friendly treat. The big-kids will love this fruit salad too! I was blown away by the simplicity of the recipe and when you hear what the secret ingredient is…you will kick yourself (as I did) for not thinking of it yourself. This will be the only way I make fruit salad from now on. And that is a big statement…

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Can we pause for a moment of cuteness? ABSOLUTELY!! Sorry for yelling but my nephew is just the most adorable thing on the planet, in my humble and totally non-biased option 🙂 I made this Secret Ingredient Fruit Salad for his first birthday party. I talked more about it in this post: Skinny Southern Potato Salad Recipe and a 1 Year Old’s Birthday!

Zackary's-1st-Birthday-Party-Smash-Cake-Time

Here is the set-up for his smash cake. Too cute, right? BTW…I had very little to do with the crafting that is going on in this banner. My sisters are both WAY more crafty than I…I think they might have let me use a glue stick, but that would be the extent of my crafting. LOL 🙂

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Back to food, which is something I can do 😉 Obviously outdoor photography is something that I cannot. I apologize for these over-exposed pictures that even Photoshop couldn’t fix entirely. I guess I thought I was still inside doing my food photography thing and not outdoors on a super-sunny day. My bad.

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Wow! That’s some bright fruit!! LOL 🙂 Have I stalled  enough yet on what this super secret ingredient is? Are you just giddy with anticipation? Okay maybe that is only me and my ridiculous obsession with all things food??? But someone has to agree with me, right?

Okay…drum roll please…

Can you do that rolling “r” thing with your tongue? I totally cannot and it just irks me when people do it so effortlessly. Oh well…

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What the heck is that white stuff all over the cut-up fruit? It’s the secret ingredient in this Secret Ingredient Fruit Salad! Dry Instant Vanilla Puddling Mix!!  I found this recipe by Rachel Schultz and pretty much just copied it. I did slightly change the ratio of fruit, but other than that I kept to her recipe. I do want to try sugar-free dry instant vanilla pudding mix sometime. That would cut down on the added sugar. I didn’t try it here because it was going to be fed to a bunch of 1 year olds.

Here is your recipe for Secret Ingredient Fruit Salad:

5.0 from 6 reviews
Secret Ingredient Fruit Salad
 
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Prep time
20 mins
Total time
20 mins
 
Author: Becky's Best Bites
Serves: 15-20
Ingredients
  • 4 tbsp. dry instant vanilla pudding mix
  • 2 lbs. of strawberries, quartered
  • 1 pint of blueberries
  • 1 pint of raspberries
  • 1 pineapple, cubed
  • 1 bunch grapes (approximately 2 lbs.), cut in half
Instructions
  1. Rinse the fruit and drain as much water off as possible.
  2. Quarter the strawberries, cube the pineapple and cut grapes in half.
  3. Place all prepared fruit in a large mixing bowl.
  4. Sprinkle pudding powder over fruit and stir.
  5. Serve immediately or let marinate overnight in the frig.
Notes
If you are not serving to small children, you don't really have to cut the grapes in half. If you do want to cut them in half, check out this video for a cool trick for cutting grapes in half really quickly.
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Comments

  1. Debi @ Life Currents says

    10/17/2014 at 6:49 pm

    I bet the pudding mix adds a nice creamy richness to the fruit salad. And, anything that gets kids to eat fruit must be good!

    • Becky says

      10/17/2014 at 6:58 pm

      It’s does and just punches up the flavors of the fruit!

  2. Janette@culinaryginger says

    10/17/2014 at 7:02 pm

    I love the cuteness pause, we all need one. This fruit salad is so vibrant and colorful, love it.

    • Becky says

      10/18/2014 at 3:13 pm

      Thank you Janette! I agree 🙂

  3. Michelle says

    10/17/2014 at 8:25 pm

    Hmmm, never thought about adding anything to fruit salad, interesting!

  4. Dionne Dean says

    10/17/2014 at 9:58 pm

    OMG-I’m going to make this tomorrow! I’ve been looking for a new way to make my fruit salad for lunch (I’m on Weight Watchers), so this will DEFINITELY be an addition to my recipe folder! Thank you!!!

    • Becky says

      10/18/2014 at 3:15 pm

      You’re welcome Dionne! If you try it with the sugar free mix, let me know how it goes.

  5. Joanne T Ferguson says

    10/18/2014 at 12:39 am

    G’day! Love colourful and healthy fruit salad!
    Cheers! Joanne

  6. Jessica @ Sprinkle Some Sugar says

    10/18/2014 at 12:55 pm

    I loveee adding vanilla pudding mix to my fruit! So yummy for bbq’s during the summer!

  7. Emerald says

    10/18/2014 at 2:10 pm

    This looks delicious!

  8. Mary says

    10/18/2014 at 3:13 pm

    I often add pudding mix to my cookie recipes but, fruit salad…that’s genius! I can’t wait to give this a try!

  9. Tara says

    10/18/2014 at 6:57 pm

    Great looking salad and I would have never guessed your secret ingredient, cool!!

  10. Serena | Serena Bakes Simply From Scratch says

    10/19/2014 at 2:07 pm

    I love fruit salad! So pretty!

  11. Stephanie Pass says

    10/19/2014 at 2:56 pm

    Such a cutie! I’ve found over the years that vanilla pudding is such a great ingredient to add to all kinds of things, but I never thought of fruit salad. Definitely gonna try this!

  12. Jessica (Savory Experiments) says

    10/19/2014 at 9:58 pm

    I can’t do the drumroll thing or roll my “R’s” either. I would have never guessed vanilla pudding mix, but now I’m dying to try it!

  13. Healing Tomato says

    10/19/2014 at 10:57 pm

    Fruit salads are my ultimate kryptonite. This fruit salad looks incredible and I would never have thought of using Vanilla Pudding Mix.

  14. Elena@as easy as Apple Pie says

    10/20/2014 at 3:04 am

    Your nephew is soooo adorable 😀 I love fruit salad,I will definitely try adding vanilla pudding mix next time

  15. Kathrin @ Ginger, Lemon & Spice says

    10/20/2014 at 6:33 am

    I looooove those colors!!!

  16. Kristen says

    10/20/2014 at 10:05 pm

    Looks pretty. Love the baseball themed party! I need to do a baseball themed one of these years.

  17. Shauna - The Best Blog Recipes says

    10/21/2014 at 11:45 pm

    I’m sold 🙂 I have the vanilla pudding mix… now if I just had some fresh fruit in the house I could make this happen!

  18. genevieve @ gratitude & greens says

    10/30/2014 at 6:08 pm

    I love all the colours! I’m not a fan of vanilla pudding mix myself but love all the fruit!

    • Becky says

      10/30/2014 at 7:13 pm

      Thanks Genevieve! You don’t really taste the pudding mix.

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