Chicken Salad Chick Grape Salad Recipe | Sweet & Fruity Revelery With Crunch This chicken salad chick grape salad recipe makes an elegant potluck dessert, featuring red and green seedless grapes tossed in sweet cream cheese dressing and finished off with brown sugar and pecans for crunch and sweetness!
Add lemon zest to your cream cheese mixture for an invigorating aroma and refreshing flavor that complements the richness of its other ingredients.
Cream Cheese
A creamy white base pairs beautifully with juicy red and green seedless grapes, adding just a touch of sweetness from sugar while lightening its density for more spreadable consistency.
Vanilla extract adds a subtle, elegant flavor that enhances both sweetness and aroma of any dressing recipe. For an aromatic touch that amps up both the sweet taste and texture of this dish, add grated lemon zest as well.
This copycat version of a popular restaurant dish can be prepared ahead of time and stored in the fridge, until serving time when brown sugar and pecans should be added before topping with brown sugar and pecans.
Sour Cream
When looking for the ideal sweet and fruity dish to bring to a potluck or family gathering, this creamy grape salad is an excellent option. Combining juicy green and red seedless grapes with an irresistibly delicious combination of cream cheese, sour cream, white sugar, vanilla extract and brown sugar — sprinkled with pecans of course — this dish makes the ideal treat.
Stacy Brown of Chicken Salad Chick in Auburn, Alabama created the original recipe. She began selling homemade salad door-to-door and now sells it in restaurants across the US. For your own convenience, make your cream cheese mixture up to two days in advance and store in airtight containers until ready for serving.
Sugar
Although technically considered a side dish, creamy grape salad is an indispensable dessert item at Chicken Salad Chick restaurants. It features sweet yet tart red and green seedless grapes nestled into a creamy cheese mixture and garnished with brown sugar and pecans for the ultimate sweet/tangy experience!
Combine cream cheese, sour cream and vanilla in a large bowl using an electric mixer until very smooth. Fold in grapes before refrigerating until serving time – before topping with brown sugar and pecans before giving as gifts or enjoying with family and friends! Makes a perfect potluck dish, picnic dessert or cozy family dinner option.
Vanilla
Serve this creamy grape salad as either a side dish or dessert for any meal, and take it along on any picnic or potluck you attend! It makes an impressive presentation!
This recipe for Chicken Salad Chick’s Sweet and Fruity Dessert from Alabama restaurants is a favorite among its founder, Stacey Brown – now with over 200 locations of her chain!
Cream together cream cheese, sour cream, sugar and vanilla using an electric mixer until completely mixed and fluffy. Fold in red and green seedless grapes along with pecans before chilling until ready to serve.
Grapes
This dessert salad features juicy red and green seedless grapes covered with a sweet cream cheese mixture and garnished with brown sugar and crushed pecans for a quick and simple preparation process that makes an elegant side dish or light dessert option.
Prep Tip: Take note to remove the cream cheese from the refrigerator an hour or two prior to beginning this recipe in order to allow it to soften properly and wash your grapes to ensure they’re completely dry before adding them into the mixture.
This delicious copycat version of Chicken Salad Chick’s signature grape salad will surely become a crowd-pleaser at any gathering – perfect for potlucks, picnics and backyard barbecues alike.
Pecans
Sweet grapes pair perfectly with velvety cream cheese and crunching pecans to create an irresistibly tasty side dish or light dessert – ideal for potlucks, picnics and summer barbecues!
Beat together cream cheese, sour cream, sugar and vanilla until creamy and add green and red grapes, folding until coated. Refrigerate before garnishing with brown sugar and pecans as a final touch before serving.
This creamy and fruity salad keeps well in the refrigerator for at least 2 days, so be sure to store it in an airtight container so grape juice doesn’t dilute its creamy cheese dressing too much.