Grape Walnut Salad

Name: Grape Walnut Salad
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 2 lbs red seedless grapes; 2 lbs green seedless grapes; 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened; 1 cup sour cream; 1/2 cup white sugar; 1 teaspoon vanilla; 1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans; 1/2 cup brown sugar

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Prep 10 min
Total 30 min
Servings 12

A fresh dessert salad with beautiful red and green grapes. Sweetened cream cheese, walnuts, and brown sugar make this salad decadent! MORE+ LESS-

By Girl Who Ate Everything

Updated December 26, 2014

Ingredients

lbs red seedless grapes

lbs green seedless grapes

(8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened

cup sour cream

1/2

cup white sugar

teaspoon vanilla

cup chopped walnuts or pecans

1/2

cup brown sugar

Steps

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1

Rinse grapes and pat to dry. In a large bowl, mix softened cream cheese, sour cream, white sugar, and vanilla. Add grapes to the cream cheese mixture and stir thoroughly to coat. Transfer to serving bowl.
2

Sprinkle brown sugar over grape mixture. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve. Right before serving sprinkle nuts on top.

Expert Tips

*The longer you chill the more the flavors will meld and the brown sugar will dissolve into the sauce. You can chill it up to 24 hours.

Nutrition Information

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More About This Recipe

I haven’t always been a fruit lover. In a house with ten kids it seemed like there was always some kind of fruit spilled and then smashed on the kitchen floor. I can remember several times being the lucky one to actually step on the smashed grape.

Probably until after I got married, fruit and I were still not friends. But a couple of years ago I found a whole new love for it. Now my family and I eat tons of fruit and literally go through pounds of grapes a week.

This Grape Walnut Salad dresses up regular old grapes and turns them into fabulous dessert salad. It’s creamy and decadent … yet refreshing and light at the same time!

It’s that time of year when dessert salads are the fresh ending that we want to a meal. This grape salad has beautiful colors with the bright green and red grapes. It’s covered in a cream cheese and sour cream dressing then topped with a little brown sugar and chopped walnuts. The textures and flavors are such a perfect combination.

Lighten it up: There are many ways to lighten up this grape walnut salad. Try using low fat cream cheese or light sour cream in the dressing for a healthier version of this dessert. I promise you that you will not be able to even tell the difference.

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