Grape Salad

This has to be my favorite summertime salad. It's so refreshing and delicious! Sweet, tender grapes are nestled between rich creamy layers of cream cheese, sour cream and sugar and then sprinkled with a crunchy brown sugar pecan topping.

It’s more like dessert than a salad.

I remember the first time that I ate this salad. I couldn’t believe how good it was! I thought where have you been all my life?

Mother’s Day is just around the corner and this would be a great side dish or dessert for your Mother’s Day Dinner. Kids of all ages will love it!

I use a mixture of red grapes and green grapes. I do use more red grapes because they are usually sweeter. The mixture of grapes makes the salad colorful and beautiful. The smaller grapes are sweeter. I would suggest cutting the grapes in half if you are feeding small children.

The cream cheese mixture is out of this world-cream cheese, sour cream and white granulated sugar. The brown sugar pecan topping just brings this salad to total perfection.

Another good thing about this salad is that it can be made two or three day ahead and kept in the refrigerator. I would save about half of the pecan-brown sugar topping for sprinkling on just before serving to refresh it. It actually taste better made ahead because the grapes soak up all the flavors of the cream cheese and brown sugar pecan mixture.