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Skip to contentFriends and family are sure to enjoy this easy Filipino fruit salad recipe with cream cheese and condensed milk. It’s a Pinoy style dessert from the Philippines that whips up in minutes using canned fruits.According to my mom, my grandmother didn’t do much cooking. However, there was a dessert that she liked to whip up often.It should come as no surprise that the recipe is a breeze to make. That’s because she was super busy with six kids.My mom shared the recipe with me and it’s super delicious. It’s a Filipino fruit salad with cream cheese and condensed milk that uses canned fruit.It’s a little different than the standard young coconut buko salad with fruit because my grandmother added extra cream cheese. She loved the flavor and texture it adds to the treat.It’s really a thick and rich dessert that takes almost no effort at all to make. It’s one of the most popular Filipino recipes because it’s so quick and easy to make.If that’s you, may may want to check out some&nbsp;useful cooking tips for easy meal preparation. I like to make things as simple as possible.Table of ContentsThis simple Asian dessert is made with only six ingredients! They are common foods so you may already have them in your kitchen.The recipe uses two 8-ounce blocks of cream cheese. Although you can use reduced-fat, I recommend using the full-fat cheese for the best taste.To offset the tang in the cream cheese and make it creamier, sweetened condensed milk is mixed in. It also adds in a milky flavor.The fruit salad comes together quickly by using canned fruits. I like to use fruit cocktail, mandarin oranges, and pineapples. However, you can use any types of fruits you like.Adding coconut boosts the tropical flavor. Since there’s already sweetness from the fruit and canned milk, use unsweetened shredded dried coconut.The process for making the Filipino fruit salad with cream cheese is super simple. It’s one of those dump and stir one bowl recipes. Just follow these simple steps!Add two blocks of cream cheese and a can of sweetened condensed milk into a large bowl. Combine with an electric mixer until smooth.Stir in the drained canned fruit and dried coconut with a spoon until the ingredients are well combined in the bowl.That’s all there is to it!You can serve the dessert immediately if you’d like. However, it tastes best when chilled so we like to put it in the refrigerator for a couple hours first.However, you’ll often find us eating a few samples right after it’s done along with licking the mixing bowl clean.It’s so delicious that you won’t be able to stop yourself. A lot of people think this Filipino fruit salad tastes a little like yogurt.My grandmother never added coconut. But, my mother wanted it to be more like an ambrosia salad and the traditional young coconut salad.Since my mom has gone low-carb, she no longer makes this tasty Pinoy dessert from the Philippines. Instead, she came up with a low-carb cheesecake salad made with berries as an alternative.You can find that recipe on the Low Carb Yum website where my mother shares her keto friendly creations.In my mother’s low-carb version, she uses heavy whipping cream and zero carb sweeteners to replace the sweetened condensed milk.My mom’s favorite sweeteners to use are stevia powder and monk fruit powder. I’m still into consuming regular sugar, though.If you have a question about this Filipino fruit salad with cream cheese and sweetened condensed milk recipe, check here first. I’ve answered many of the common questions below.Because it’s unbearably hot in the Philippines, many Filipinos like to store the salad in the freezer for a cool refreshing treat. If it’s too hard to scoop frozen, just let it sit at room temperature for about 15 minutes to soften.The traditional fruit salad served in the Philippines is buko salad. It’s usually a mixture of coconut (buko), mixed fruit, sugar palm, coconut gel (nata de coco), table cream, and condensed milk. The recipe I’ve shared is a modified version that my grandmother created.The salad will keep for at least 5 days in the refrigerator and up to 3 months when frozen. But it’s so delicious that it likely won’t last that long!Although I really love the Filipino buko salad, I’ve moved to a diet without gluten or dairy. So the following desserts have become my new favorites:If you’ve moved to a low-carb eating plan, I recommend trying one of these low-carb treats instead:PrintPinfrom votesFirst published on July 18, 2018. Post updated on April 14, 2021, with new photos and additional recipe information.I have definitely never had anything like this before. We love regular fruit salad, but now I have to give this one a try!!Both recipes sound wonderful. Quick and easy to make. A treat everyone will enjoy.I will make this the next time my Stepdaughter and her family come over for dinnerWe love cream cheese and fruit in this house, so this would be a winner!I bet that is amazing! The condensed milk makes me want to run out and buy the stuff to make this!Wow this looks so good! I’ll have to try and make this one day soon. It will be a great summer treat! Anything fruity is a favorite of ours.Wow, this is so easy to do. How come I only knew about this now. Gotta give myself a try and make some over the weekend.I have never tried a fruit salad like this but it looks delicious. I bet the kids would love this too. I want to try this recipe this weekend.Oh my goodness this sounds good. I love fruit and cream cheese. I make a wonderful fruit salad that is similar to this one. I can’t wait to try yours.This sounds great! I’ve never tried filipino fruit salad, so I’m excited to try it. These sound like fantastic flavors.There is nothing quite like a good fruit salad in the summer and this one sounds absolutely delicious – I love the idea of using cream cheese with it!That looks very tasty. Such a light and perfect summer treat but also very easy to make. My kind of recipe.My aunt used to make a salad just like this when I was growing up. I had forgotten it, but I need to whip up a bowl for dinner one day.I had never heard of a filipino fruit salad before but this reminds me so much of a different fruit salad that I loved as a kid. Definitely saving this one for the future! 🙂I’m not sure I would like this. Something about cheese and fruit together doesn’t sit right with my stomach.I’ve never had this type of fruit salad before. This recipe looks divine. Would love to try making it for dessert.Making salad here in the states is different when I was in the Phils. I learned to use cream cheese and it’s so much better.I’ve never had a fruit salad such as this. Looks like a wonderful addition to any menu!These looks so fluffy and delicious. I could really stand to chow on one of these right now!YUM! looks easy enough that even I can do it! LOLWow a bunch of blowing smoke reviews..not one of you who said they was gonna make it,came back and said if was any good SMH..Well guess what I made it and it is very good. I left out the coconut cause I hate coconut.How much sweetener to use?My auntie gave my mom this recipe and we use to INHALE this delectable dessert along with their yummy dishes of lumpia and pancit. My mom gave me the recipe which I lost over the years. Now in her later years, my mom couldn’t remember the recipe so we thought we had lost it. So when I googled ambrosia and Filipino Fruit Salad came up, I knew we had hit the mother load. I am going to the store TODAY to get these ingredients so my family and I can have this for dessert TONIGHT ~~ thank you and salamat po!!!My daughter in law who is Filipino makes this salad using the table cream in place of the cream cheese and we absolutely love it!!Privacy PolicyStoriesDisclaimerContactAccessibility Policy

Skip to contentFriends and family are sure to enjoy this easy Filipino fruit salad recipe with cream cheese and condensed milk. It’s a Pinoy style dessert from the Philippines that whips up in minutes using canned fruits.According to my mom, my grandmother didn’t do much cooking. However, there was a dessert that she liked to whip up often.It should come as no surprise that the recipe is a breeze to make. That’s because she was super busy with six kids.My mom shared the recipe with me and it’s super delicious. It’s a Filipino fruit salad with cream cheese and condensed milk that uses canned...

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