Orange Cream Fruit Salad is a lovely fruit salad filled with oranges, pineapple and bananas with a sweet orange cream mixed in! Perfect to go alongside Easter dinner!
Orange Cream Fruit Salad has been a family favorite recipe for years. I love fruit, and while fresh fruit is my favorite, this is a great recipe to make in the winter when good produce is hard to find (and expensive!), and it has also come in handy many times when I need to make a side dish and don’t have time to run to the store since many of the ingredients are ones that I keep on hand regularly.
What kinds of fruit do you put in the Orange Cream Fruit Salad?
I have made this fruit salad for family dinners, potlucks and we always have it on Easter. One of the things that I love about fruit salads is that you can so easily adapt them. This recipe is delicious with canned pineapple, mandarin oranges and bananas, but you can definitely add other fruits or swap any of those out. I’ve added grapes, apples, kiwi, strawberries and raspberries and all of them have tasted wonderful with the orange/vanilla coating.
Can you use something else instead of Cool Whip in this recipe?
Orange Cream Fruit Salad
- 3.4 oz. pkg instant vanilla pudding mix
- 3/4 cup-1 1/2 cups milk*
- 1/3 cup frozen orange juice concentrate
- 8 oz container Cool Whip
- 20 oz. can pineapple chunks or tidbits, drained well
- 11 oz. can mandarin oranges, drained well
- 2 bananas, sliced
- Combine pudding mix, milk and orange juice concentrate in a mixing bowl.
- Beat with an electric mixer on medium speed for about 2 minutes and then fold in the Cool Whip.
- Gently mix in the canned fruit and chill in the fridge for 2-3 hours until ready to serve. Feel free to add more fruit. I often add more oranges or bananas, and sometimes I add strawberries and mini marshmallows too. If you are adding apples and/or bananas, wait until just before serving to add them. Enjoy!
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ORANGE CREAM FRUIT SALAD
Orange Cream Fruit Salad is a lovely fruit salad filled with oranges, pineapple and bananas with a sweet orange cream mixed in! Perfect to go alongside Easter dinner!
Ingredients
- 3 oz. pkg instant vanilla pudding mix
- 3/4 cup-1 1/2 cups milk*
- 1/3 cup frozen orange juice concentrate
- 8 oz container Cool Whip
- 20 oz. can pineapple chunks or tidbits drained well
- 11 oz. can mandarin oranges drained well
- 2 bananas sliced
Instructions
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Combine pudding mix, milk and orange juice concentrate in a mixing bowl.
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Beat with an electric mixer on medium speed for about 2 minutes and then fold in the Cool Whip. Gently mix in the fruit and chill in the fridge for 2-3 hours until ready to serve.
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Gently mix in the canned fruit and chill in the fridge for 2-3 hours until ready to serve. Feel free to add more fruit. I often add more oranges or bananas, and sometimes I add strawberries and mini marshmallows too. If you are adding apples and/or bananas, wait until just before serving to add them. Enjoy!!
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*We’ve made this recipe dozens of times with successful results, yet we’ve gotten several comments that the salad is too soupy. So, our advice is to reduce the milk to 3/4 cups initially, and if the consistency is too thick for your liking, feel free to add more.
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Pinning! I have this recipe but haven't made it for a long time. It is delicious!
can u put something else in besides pineapple and bananas. or just keep them out?? maybe just put in strawberries and marshmallows. maybe just keep it oranges and sick mallows and some chocolate in it? YUM!!<br />
I just made this exactly as you said, and it turned out really soupy. Like REALLY soupy. It still tasted good, but I'm not sure where I went wrong. Any ideas?
That shouldnt be soupy since the only liquid is under 2 cups (OJ and milk) and the pudding requires 2 cups to be thick, did you make sure to drain the pineapple and the oranges well ?
You can also make this with orange jello instead and use marshmallows and but without milk and smash mandarins and drain well and crushed pineapple instead of tidbits
mine was really soupy too, would using skim milk have anything to do with it being soupy?
I, too, followed the directions as posted and mine is also really soupy. I'm praying it will set-up (because of the pudding) overnight.
I have made this dozens of times and never had it be soupy at all, so I'm trying to figure out what the problem is! To make pudding, you usually mix the pudding mix with 2 cups of milk, so by reducing the milk to 1 1/2 cups as the recipe states, the pudding should be thicker than normal and the only thing you are adding to that is orange juice concentrate which doesn't thin it out too
I made this today and followed the directions as stated and it turned out soupy as well. Not sure what the problem is. I read these other comments and seems that half the people had this same problem. hopefully it sets up, i stuck it in the freezer for a little bit.
Ditto what Janalee said for me. Soupy. As stated in a previous comment I, too, suspect using skim milk might be the problem.
It doesn't have anything to do with what % the milk is. I used whole milk the first time and it was soupy. I just reduced the amount of milk I put in and also drain the fruit well. Y
I have made a similar salad in the past and used vanilla pudding cups, instead. No soupy turnout.
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I made it today and it is SOUPY! I'm very displeased with this recipe. If anyone ventures to make it, beware! It's seriously flawed. I don't think reducing the milk would even help it. Best yet, find another recipe!
I remade the recipe just to make sure that I didn't put the wrong amounts of anything and my salad came out just like it has dozens of times! The only way that the salad can become "soupy" is if the canned fruits are not well drained. Make sure to strain them extremely well and if you are worried about things becoming soupy, you could even lay the fruit out on a paper towel for a
Mine was very soupy, too, but delicious flavor! It was like an Orange Julius with fruit in it! 🙂 I plan on trying to let the pudding set up with just the milk before adding orange juice concentrate, and then folding in the cool whip after mixing those together. We'll see… I'm not giving up hope, though!
Love this recipe! The orange Julius taste is wonderful ;). My hubby however is not a fan. Any suggestions please as to what to substitute the orange juice for. I would love to make it with pineapple but due to substitute it would be ok if I had to omit. Other fruit I throw in is banana and strawberry, raspberry. Was thinking of throwing in blueberries sometime. Any help would be
Try using 1 cup of milk instead. Also, whisk the pudding, orange juice and milk instead of usong an elcetric mixer. That's what I did! It turned out great. Not once but twice!
I made this last night. After reading the reviews, I added the cool whip to the pudding/milk when it was still partially frozen to help thicken it up (not sure if that made a difference, but the consistency was good!) What I found though was that the pudding to fruit ratio wasn't what I would expect–too much pudding. In total I used 3 bananas, 1 20 oz. can of pineapple, 2 11 oz cans of
So I decided to find this,recipe after having it at our ward church party. This was my favorite I found and decided to try. I always read the comments first and read how so many people said it was soupy. I only had an 8 Oz bag of vanilla pudding so I added half the bag (roughly 4oz instead of the asked 3oz) to try to counter act the soupyness. It came out perfect and was sooooo good!! I’m definitely going to be making this again. Oh and I did 3 bananas instead of 2 and added an apple. Next time I’ll use 2 cans of mandarin oranges because they’re our favorites and I don’t think there was enough 🙂
I need to try your recipe.
Hi could real whip cream be used instead of cool whip? Pinning this and sharing
Is the orange juice defroster?
No it doesn’t have to be defrosted. 🙂
I have yet to make this going to substitute orange jello mix for the CV concentrate I think that what’s making it soupy as and adding mini marshmallows as well
Great ideas- tell me how you like it!
Hope you are using instant pudding mix not the cooking mix and using frozen concentrate , not mixed with water. Maybe that has something to do with the soupy texture
I used half milk half whipping cream and it’s thicker.luv it.
I just made this and it turned out perfect. Don’t understand how it could turn out soupy unless they’re not draining the fruit well. I only used 3/4 cup of milk with the instant pudding and frozen orange juice. Used a whisk instead of mixer and put in the refrigerator for several minutes until set up before adding fruit and cool whip. Also added mini marshmallows and 2 bananas. Turned out perfect! Great taste and easy to fix!
🙂 I’m so glad you liked it- it’s one of our favorites as well!
I make one similar to this recipe, only I use two small boxes of pudding to ensure it doesn’t get soupy:)
I also add pecan halves and a little coconut. Once I added some tropical fruit(drained) – it was pretty
good too!
I DIDNT HAVE FROZEN OJ BUT HAD FROZEN STRAWBERRY DAQUIORI OOOOW WONDERFUL
To everyone having problem with their salad coming out soupy! Be sure and FOLD your cool whip into first ingredients. If you stir it like a soup it does make the cool whip flat and become seoupy. Hope that helps.
Wow! Just made this for my moms group, have one question though…we’re expected to share?!? I couldn’t stop “checking to make sure it was eatible”!! Soooo good!!
I followed your directions, however, I used a 5.1oz box of pudding so I added a splash of milk and a small spoon of extra orange juice to offset it, plus 2 cans of pineapple (one tidbit and one chunk), 2 cans of oranges and 5 bananas total. It still had lots of “creamy fluff part” so I’m happy that I didn’t add more of that to the mix.
Came out perfect so I’m not sure what happened to other people’s being “soupy”, maybe they over stirred it as well? I noticed that if I would’ve kept stirring then it would’ve gotten thinner.
Sharing recipes from my site is completely optional! 😉 Glad you enjoyed it!
Delicious! Followed directions and mine was not soupy at all. Used 3/4 cup milk. Be sure to drain your fruit
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Tried it. I agree with others that found it soupy. I used 3/4 cup of milk and was still soupy.
I made this recipe today, I used 1 1/2 cups of milk, drained the fruit and it is not runny at all. The only thing I would do different is to add more mandarin oranges, it is orange cream, so i think it is most appropriate.
Great idea Karen!
I can’t wait to make this!!
I hope you like it!
The first time I made this I accidentally used the entire can of OJ instead of 1/3 cup. That definitely made things more soupy and too tangy. Tonight I’ve made it again using the full 1-1/2 cup of milk and the correct 1/3 cup of OJ. It’s currently chilling but already had a thicker consistency and flavor than before. Hope this helps solve any similar mistakes!
* thicker consistency and better flavor than before
This was wonderful! My family ate seconds!
So glad you enjoyed it!
Fluff salads always go over so well at our family dinners! So much fruit, too, I love it!
Love this sweet fruity fluffy salad! Yum!
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I did not see the milk till I scrolled down to the recipe. Has anyone ever used Almond milk in this? I can’t have milk, yogurt or ice cream.
I’ve never tried this with almond milk, but I think that it would work great in this recipe!
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This looks delicious! Can’t wait to try it!
We have so many mandarin oranges in the pantry pretty much at all times – this recipe will be a fabulous way to use them up! Thank you!
You’re so welcome! I hope you enjoy this salad as much as we do!
I drain my fruit in a strainer for about 2 hours I also only used 3/4 cups of the milk and it turned out awesome.
I’m so glad you enjoyed it!
Hi what could u use instead of cool whip or where do u buy that please
You could use 2 cups of sweetened whipped cream instead. Or here is a modified version of this recipe that doesn’t require cool whip – you actually use Greek yogurt instead. https://butterwithasideofbread.com/creamy-orange-fruit-salad/
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