Grape Salad

Grape
 Salad

This is a light and refreshing grape salad, I think you could use a mixture of other fresh fruit; strawberries, blueberries, fresh pineapple, or any fruit in season.
My Aunt Marilyn adds flax seeds mixed in the salad, use your imagination and create a new family favorite!


Ingredients:

2 ½ cups red grapes

2 ½ cups green grapes both washed and dried thoroughly.
If the grapes are large cut in half.

Mix: 8oz. cream cheese
8oz. sour cream
 ½ cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla

 in a mixing bowl until smooth.

Fold in grapes.

I like this in a 9x11oblong dish.

Topping:

Sprinkle 1 ½ cup chopped toasted pecans and

1/3  cup light brown sugar on the top and chill.
After the salad sits in the fridge, the brown sugar melts over the pecans, and they have a candied taste.
 This is best when cold.
I only put pecans on one end of the salad, John doesn't like nuts on his, and my mother in law is not suppose to eat nuts.

A lot of people mix the pecans into the salad, I prefer them  on top.
The store was out of red grapes, so I doubled the green grapes.

                                                                         MMMMMM!