Grape Salad is a refreshing and delicious dish that is perfect for any occasion, whether it’s a summer barbecue, potluck, or just a simple side dish. Enjoy!
Delicious Grape Salad: Perfect for Summer and Beyond!
Grape salad is a delicious and refreshing summer side dish that is perfect for any occasion. What sets this grape salad apart from others is the addition of sharp cheddar cheese, giving it a unique and savory flavor. The combination of cream cheese, sour cream, sugar, and vanilla creates a creamy and decadent base for the salad.
To make this grape salad, simply mix together the cream cheese, sour cream, sugar, and vanilla, then fold in the grated cheddar cheese and grapes. Sprinkle a mixture of brown sugar and chopped pecans on top, cover, and chill until ready to serve. This recipe is sure to be a hit at your next summer gathering!
Whip up a Sweet and tangy Grape Salad Delight!
Well hey y’all today we are going to make a grape salad that is in my cookbook and what I have first to do is I’m going to make the sauce I guess you could call it I have one stick one block of cream cheese that I have softened it’s been setting out for a couple hours and we’re just going to open it up just like so and put it in our.
Container and I’m going to use this some place to lay my spatula so also have 16 oz of sour cream now I’m only going to use about 10 and I’m just going to eyeball this it will be fine if it’s just a little more or a scant less okay let’s see a little bit more okay there we go okay now I have a half a cup of some.
White sugar in that goes and I’m going to use a teaspoon in half of our homemade vanilla so we’re just going to eyeball that that looks like a teaspoon and a half all right and I’m going to use my hand mixer I’m going to get this mixed up real quick like okay here we.
Go so I’m going to add an ingredient now that I we made this before and whenever I add this people either love it or they don’t but don’t knock it until you try it this is 1 18 o package of extra sharp cheddar cheese I don’t go anywhere I’m going to tell you why I’m using this first off it adds more calcium to it and we all need more calcium and everything.
Is so sweet that this kind of cuts the sweet as my daddy would have said so we’re just going to fold this in here and you can grate your own I do recommend if you do have a minute or two it doesn’t take no time at all to grate it and then you don’t have all that that corn starch that they put in grated cheese before they sell it so.
It doesn’t Gump up together okay so let me show you let me move some of this I have now the recipe calls for 2 lbs of grapes you don’t have to get caught up on that y’all grab a bag or grab two bags and this will work for one bag and it will work for two bags I just did one bag today and I’ve just got the green seedless you can use red seedless and.
Green seedless and they’re so pretty together what I always do I wash them in a bowl of water with a couple splashes of some white vinegar and let them sit there for a couple minutes and then I rinse all my produce off it’s way I do everything but I also on these grapes I cut them in half and it is an extra step but I will tell you that one of my.
Grandmothers choked to death and so I’m very conscientious about trying to help people not do that on my water watch that would be no fun at all so I’m just going to put this concoction right in here with my grapes and then we’re going to mix her up now this concoction here y’all makes the best fruit dip so if you just put.
The cream cheese the sugar the sour cream a little bit of vanilla together minus the cheese you got the best fruit dip ever so we’re just going to get this all tossed around here okay there we go get some of this out of our way and I’m going to get the little containers that we’re going to put this in so let’s get our topping.
First before we get our cute little containers I have one cup of chopped pecans now if you have some people that are allergic to nuts in your family you can absolutely leave the peans out but you do want use one cup of packed brown sugar and we’re just going to mix these all together and this is going to make a.
Wonderful topping all right now I’m going to carry all this stuff to the sink and I’ll be right back with my clean hands and then we will put them in something pretty okay y’all this is done now you can serve this any way you want to you can leave it in this and serve it if you wanted to you can put it in in your.
Antique Crocs you can put it in your trifle dish I’m going to show you two little choices that you can do if you’re just having a ladies luncheon or a potluck and you want to make it quicker for people just to grab and go so I’ve got my little punch cup and I’m just going to put some see let me get a spoon here so I.
Want to do it pretty like let put it in your little in your little punch cup a little bit more okay and then I’ve got the little disposable plastic and you can put some in that this would be great if you’re having a potluck at church and you know you always have extras left over of.
Everything and a lot of times you want to package that up and take it to the shuttings well you can just put a little Saran wrap on top of these little these little cups like this and uh you can just take it to your shuttings and they’ll be so happy to see you so we’re just going to put those right there and I’m going to put the rest of.
This in my trifle dish without making a mess let’s see if I can do this without making too big of a mess there we go and this is the most delicious thing and I have had it all over the place and I’ve had it in 9 by 13 dishes which a lot of times that’s what I do I put it in a 9 by 13.
I’ve had it in triple dishes I’ve had it in just any kind of dish that the lady of the house had laying around and also this is very very similar to Chicken Salad Chick and do you all have those in your area I love Chicken Salad Chick my very favorite thing that they make is their barbecue chicken salad that is.
Deicious all right let’s get the rest of this in here and the first time I made this with y’all a lot of people in our area call this a frogy salad we don’t have the kind of frogy salad that y’all up north have we don’t have that down here for the most part and so um you know kind of this looks like frog eyes and so.
Therefore kind of call this a frogy salad and boy I got my head handed to me because I called it that but anyway it’s either here or there let’s get the rest this out of here all right okay now we have our little container we have our to go container and we’ve got just our use our spoon here to get rid of.
This get some of this off here now if I’m serving this today it’s actually better the day you make it uh because it does tend to get watery the longer you leave it in the ice box but uh if I’m making this today and I going to serve it tomorrow or even the next day I don’t put this on top of it until.
I get ready to serve it because it kind of starts to make it kind of weepy but you can just top your little party cups here whatever how much you want and the rest of this you can just sprinkle over the top this delicious grape salad you know here in the South if you got a VT or a.
Fruit and you’ve mixed it with anything else and it’s cold it’s a salad that’s what we do just what we do okay there we go got a little extra left over and we’ll save that for something else and then we take our little flag cuz Fourth of July is coming up take our little.
Flag and there we go and that cute oh my good gracious good jly you this all right let’s just get us a little bite if you make this please put the cheese in it you really really will see a difference in the uh it gives you a little bit more of a creamy texture it gives your kind of tongue kind of.
Something else to do but it also the sharpness kind of balances all that sweet sugary we got going on so anyway there it is versatile grape salad it’s in my cookbook and I’ll put a link if you would like to order that if you’re not following me here on Facebook and YouTube click that subscribe button and follow button I sure would appreciate it.
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