Layered Fruit Salad

Quick and Simple Desserts

A layered fruit salad is quick to make, looks beautiful and creates great taste with little effort. Anyone can create these simple fruit salads and have a delicious dessert ready in minutes for yourself, family, or friends whenever you want.

You can serve these simple desserts in dessert bowls, in parfait glasses, wine glasses, martini glasses or whatever you may have that will allow you to layer the ingredients. Be creative with your choice and let your imagination guide you.

Here are some simple fruit combinations and servings ideas to create layered fruit salads. These salads should be made as close to serving time as possible to prevent browning of fruit and provide the freshest taste.


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Layered fruit salad combination: bananas, peaches, apples

Fruit preparation: slice the bananas, pit and thinly slice the peaches, core and dice the apples

Layer ingredients: plain Greek style yogurt, cinnamon squares cereal

Serving Idea:
Layer the fruit salad ingredients in this order:
- sliced peaches
- Greek yogurt
- sliced bananas
- cinnamon squares
- diced apples
- yogurt

Repeat layers if desired and top the final layer of yogurt with a sprinkle of cinnamon.

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Fruit salad combination: plums, nectarines

Fruit preparation: pit and thinly slice both the plums and nectarines (reserve a couple of slices of both fruits and cut into cubes for garnish)

Layer ingredients: sour cream, nutmeg, honey, sliced almonds

Serving Idea:
Layer ingredients in this order:
- sliced nectarines
- sour cream topped with a dusting of nutmeg and a drizzle of honey
- sliced plums
- sliced almonds

Top the final layer of sour cream with some of the reserved cubes of fruit.

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Layered fruit salad combination: *mandarin oranges, pink or red grapefruit, avocado

Fruit preparation: peel and section both the mandarin oranges and grapefruit, pit, peel and slice avocado

Layer ingredients: crumbled goat cheese, walnut pieces, grated ginger

Serving Idea:
Layer ingredients in this order:
- orange segments
- crumbled goat cheese
- walnut pieces
- grapefruit segments
- avocado slices
- grated ginger
- crumbled goat cheese
- walnut pieces

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Fruit combination: strawberries, blueberries, cantaloupe

Fruit preparation: hull and slice strawberries, halve the cantaloupe and remove seeds, cut melon into small cubes

Layer ingredients: crumbled cinnamon graham crackers, semi-sweet mini chocolate chips, fresh mint leaves (minced), ricotta cheese flavored with cinnamon and honey

Serving Idea:
Layer ingredients in this order:
- crumbled graham crackers
- sliced strawberries
- blueberries
- chocolate chips
- a sprinkling of mint
- flavored ricotta
- sliced strawberries
- cantaloupe cubes
- a sprinkling of mint
- graham crackers
- flavored ricotta

Top this last layer of ricotta with a few blueberries and a sprinkling of mint and chocolate chips. You could also serve whole graham crackers on the side with this salad.


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Layered fruit salad combination: fresh apricots, peaches, pitted cherries

Fruit preparation: pit apricots and peaches and cut both into small chunks and combine together in a bowl, cut cherries in half

Layer ingredients: vanilla yogurt mixed with some ground cinnamon, walnut pieces, white chocolate chips

Serving idea:

Repeat layers if desired and then top each serving with a sprinkle of cinnamon and a few walnut pieces.

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Fruit combination: apples, pitted dates, navel oranges, raisins

Fruit preparation: cored and dice apple, cut dates into pieces, peel and section orange and cut each section into thirds

Layer ingredients: caramel syrup, *whipped cottage cheese with honey, pecan pieces

*To make the whipped cottage cheese, simply take a containerof cottage cheese and place in a blender along with some honey and blend until mixture is smooth and creamy, adding a little milk to thin mixture if necessary.

Serving idea:
Layer ingredients in this order:
- apples and raisins with a drizzle of caramel sauce
- cottage cheese
- dates and oranges
- pecan pieces
- cottage cheese

Repeat layers if desired and top each serving with a drizzle of caramel syrup and a few pecan and apple pieces.

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Fruit combination: kiwi, banana, blueberries

Fruit preparation: peel kiwi and cut into chunks, peel and slice banana

Layer ingredients: lemon yogurt, lemon zest, pound cake cubes, sliced almonds

Serving idea:
Layer ingredients in this order:
- blueberries with some pound cake cubes and a little lemon zest
- yogurt
- sliced bananas with almonds
- yogurt
- kiwi with pound cake cubes and some lemon zest

Repeat layers if desired. Top the last layer with some yogurt and a few sliced almonds

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