This salad is a combination of a fruit dip recipe I learned last week and an apple salad I saw in the grocery store. It was enough inspiration to come up with this delicious recipe for our cook-out this afternoon! I have two boys and a daycare and would recommend this recipe as super-simple to make with kids. Children love chopping apples (even littles can do this with a butter knife) and mixing the dressing. I used ¾ of my dressing and reserved the rest to use as fruit dip later.
Ingredients
- red apples: 2 piece (diced)
- yellow apples: 2 piece (diced)
- lemon juice: 1 Tbsp (to taste)
- Neufchatel cheese: 1 pack (3 ounce pack, softened)
- whipped cream: 0.75 cup
- brown sugar: 0.25 cup
- mayonnaise: 0.25 cup (optional)
- vanilla extract: 1 tsp
- seedless green grapes: 2 cups (halved)
- stalks celery: 3 piece (sliced)
- ½ cups walnut halves: 1 piece
- sweetened dried cranberries (such as Craisins®): 1 cup
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Stages of cooking
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Toss diced apples with lemon juice in a salad bowl.
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Beat Neufchatel cheese, whipped cream, brown sugar, mayonnaise, and vanilla extract together in a separate bowl until dressing is smooth and creamy.
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Stir grapes and celery into apples and toss lightly with dressing to coat. Top salad with walnut halves and sweetened dried cranberries.
