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Creamy Grape Salad is a sweet and sour combination of bright green and purple grapes frosted with silky smooth sour cream and topped with a crunchy pecan. Just imagine big, juicy, crisp grapes surrounded by creamy goodness.
Reasons You’ll Love This Recipe
- Unique: Wow your friends and family at your next get-together or potluck with this beautiful, flavorful, unique salad.
- Easy to Make: This grape salad only takes 5 minutes to make! Keep the ingredients on hand to make it last minute.
- Flavor: I can’t even tell you how amazing the flavors in this salad are. The grapes with the creamy sweet sauce are seriously so good, trust me!
Ingredients For Creamy Grape Salad
The ingredient list for this grape salad is short and sweet and full of bright grapes. You will love the combination of the sweet and tart grapes with the tangy cream cheese and sugar. For exact measurements, scroll to the bottom of the page.
- Green Seedless Grapes: Adds a firm, juicy texture and bright flavor that is slightly tangy.
- Red Seedless Grapes: Gives the salad a different color and a sweeter flavor.
- Softened Cream Cheese: Provides a smooth, creamy texture and tangy flavor.
- Sour Cream: Combined with the cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla extract, it gives the sauce the best flavor.
- Granulated Sugar: Adds sweetness to balance the tangy flavor of the grapes.
- Vanilla Extract: Gives the creamy grape salad a warm sweetness.
Toppings
- Brown Sugar: Provides a depth of sweet flavor.
- Chopped Pecans: Sprinkle on top for the perfect crunch.
How do you make Creamy Grape Salad?
It won’t take you long to whip this creamy, delicious grape salad. Have your kids help you make this so they are more willing to try it. You know they will love it after one bite!
- Beat: In a large mixing bowl, beat together the cream cheese and sour cream until smooth. Add sugar and vanilla until blended.
- Stir and Chill: Add grapes, then toss to coat. Refrigerate until serving.
- Serve: Top with brown sugar and pecans right before serving.
Creamy Grape Salad Tips and Variations
There are only a few ingredients but we can change things up to suit your tastes and use what you have on hand. Here are some tips to get you started.
- Substitutions: You can whip together cream cheese and Cool Whip to make a lighter texture.
- Softened Cream Cheese: Make sure your cream cheese is softened (room temperature is best), or your mixture will be lumpy.
- Low-Fat Options: You can lighten the recipe using plain Greek yogurt, vanilla yogurt or low fat cream cheese instead of sour cream and whole-fat cream cheese.
- Can You Cut Grapes in Half? That is a great idea and best for little ones. This will prevent a choking hazard and make it an easier bite for everyone.
- Toppings: Don’t add the brown sugar and nuts until you serve. They will get mushy, and the sugar will melt. You can use walnuts, almonds, cashews, or any nut you have on hand.
How to Properly Store Creamy Grape Salad
- Serve Chilled: Grape salad tastes best when it is chilled. It is best to keep it in the refrigerator until you’re ready to serve. You will want to add the brown sugar and pecans right before serving.
- Don’t Freeze: You will NOT want to freeze this salad. It will not thaw well.
More Grape Recipes
Looking for recipes to use up your grapes before they go bad? Here are a few options for you. The great thing about grapes is they are the perfect side for lunches. Eat them with my ultimate tuna melt, easy Cuban sandwich, or my cucumber sandwiches.
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Creamy Grape Salad
Ingredients
- 2 pounds seedless green grapes
- 2 pounds seedless red grapes
- 1 (8-ounce package) cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup sour cream
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Topping:
- 3 tablespoons brown sugar
- 3 tablespoons chopped pecans
Instructions
- In a large mixing bowl, beat together the cream cheese and sour cream until smooth. Add sugar and vanilla until blended.
- Add grapes and toss to coat. Cover and refrigerate until serving.
- Top with brown sugar and pecans before serving.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Can I make nite before serving?
Yes! Store it in your fridge and it will be great the next day!
If you add fresh bacon crumbles, it brings a whole new dimension to this already-tasty recipe. Thanks!
do you know how many people this dish would serve?
It makes a Large bowl full. It filled the largest mixing bowl i own. I couldn’t stop eating it
I love this salad. But the calories for it ..YIKES !!! I guess I better be careful next time how much I do eat of it.
Did you mean 3T of brown sugar and 3T of pecans for that entire bowl, or for just a serving?
For the entire bowl. You can add or substitute any of the nuts.
This reminds me of something I tasted at an RV potluck. There was a huge platter of fruit surrounding a bowl of white stuff. It was blended marshmallow fluff and cream cheese, so delicious!
Does the creamy pea salad and the grape salad have as many calories as noted? I hope so as I am 79 lbs and if I don’t start gaining the doctors are talking about a feeding tube, I am 76 and don’t want to have to do that so I am trying to find as many high calorie, high fat, recepes I can find that I will eat. If u have more I would love to have them. Thank you so much.
I like to use myfitnesspal.com for any nutritional information. That will help you find some high fat recipes too. Hope that helps and good luck!
How many servings does this recipe make?
About 6 people
really nice salad, thank you, very creative use of grapes and texture contrasts
When I make this grape salad I just use red seedless grapes 3 1/2 lbs. Instead of regular cream cheese I use strawberry cream cheese and instead of vanilla extract I use 5-6 drops of almond extract ( a must). Until you taste this you will never use any other recipe. Absolutely delicious!!!!!!
My grandmother always made this at Thanksgiving. It was called Busy salad. They would put us kids at a table and have us peel the grapes. It kept us busy and out of the way.
Love this recipe. It is a hit every time I serve it. They don’t just come back for seconds.
This sounds really good. Do you think you could sub graham cracker bits for the pecans?
Grams would turn to mush unless you sprinkle it on there right before, with each serving.
Laura I think the graham crackers would get too mushy!! You need something crispy with this
salad!!
Try ginger snaps. They will hold up better.
When I make this one I put the brown sugar on the night before,then when you serve it the next day add the pecans the brown sugar crystallized and it’s like a crem brule
Ohh I love this idea! I think I would use yogurt instead of sour cream since I’m not a fan, but regardless, I am definitely going to try this sometime. Pinned!
My family will devour this! We love fruit salads in the summer time!
I love this salad. For a little different twist drizzle with a little salted caramel sauce. Sometimes I replace the the grapes with apples. I really like seeing all the recipes you post. It’s one of my favorite sites. I wish you good luck on the recipes you try and fitting it all into busy days and nights with a little one.