This easy fall fruit salad is made with sweet apples and juicy grapes in a yogurt-cream sauce topped with crushed walnuts and brown sugar.
Apples and Grape Salad
Fresh, crisp, and full of flavor—this Fall Fruit Salad with Apples and Grapes is the perfect side dish or healthy snack for the season! Juicy grapes, crunchy apples, and a light dressing come together in minutes. It’s naturally sweet, refreshing, and a great way to enjoy autumn fruit. I love the mixture of flavors and textures, and that this easy dessert requires no cooking– it’s absolutely addicting! More apple recipes I love to make each fall are my applesauce nut bread, my popular crockpot apple butter, and of course this apple cobbler.
Why This Works
When I first adapted this recipe from my grape salad, I never thought such a simple combination would taste so good! Now I make this every Autumn when we go apple picking. If you love fall recipes that are light, fresh, and family-approved, you’ll want to make this on repeat!
- Quick & easy to make
- Kid-friendly
- A great way to use those apples if you go apple picking
- Great for parties, weeknights, or Thanksgiving
Ingredients You’ll Need
Here’s everything you need to make this easy fall fruit salad
- Fruit: Seedless green grapes and diced gala apples, or any sweet apples you like
- Lemon juice, to prevent the apples from browning
- Creamy dressing: Greek yogurt, light cream cheese, light agave, maple syrup, honey or brown sugar and vanilla extract.
- For Topping: brown sugar and chopped walnuts, or pecans for crunch
How to Make Fall Fruit Salad
This fall or winter fruit salad comes together in four quick steps. I’d make it within a few hours of serving and wait to add the topping until right before.
- Fruit: Slice the grapes in half and cut the apples into small pieces. Drizzle lemon juice over the apples so they don’t brown.
- Sauce: Mix the yogurt, cream cheese, agave, and vanilla extract.
- Salad: Combine the fruit with the sauce and put in one large serving bowl or eight small ones.
- Topping: Combine the brown sugar and crushed walnuts and sprinkle over the fruit salad.
How to Serve This Fall Fruit Salad
This apple and grape fruit salad is the the best autumn fruit salad. It’s so easy to whip up for dessert or snack and great for a crowd. You could enjoy it any night of the week, or multiply the recipe and serve it as a Thanksgiving dessert for the holidays.
Variations and Tips:
- Fruit: Use different apples like Honeycrisp apples. Or substitute with other fruit like Bartlett pears, pomegranate seeds, or dried cranberries.
- Make It Lighter: Skip the cream cheese and double the yogurt.
- Use Different Nuts: Try it with pecans or almonds
- Make it Nut-Free: Swap the nuts with hemp seeds, pepitas, or chopped pretzels.
- Spices: Add cinnamon or nutmeg to the nuts.
- Adjust the Serving Size: You can easily double this autumn fruit salad recipe to feed a crowd or halve it for fewer servings.
More Fall Apple Recipes You’ll Love:
- Apple Cranberry Crumble
- Cinnamon Apple Yogurt Bowls
- Delightfully Baked Apples
- Crockpot Applesauce
- Cinnamon Apple Crisp
Fall Fruit Salad with Apples and Grapes
Ingredients
- 3 cups green seedless grapes, washed and dried well
- 4 cups gala apples, diced (24 oz)
- 1/2 tsp lemon juice
- 8 oz fat-free Greek yogurt, such as Stonyfield Organic
- 4 oz light cream cheese, softened
- 1/4 cup agave, pure maple syrup, or brown sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
For the Topping:
- 2 tbsp brown sugar, packed
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts, or pecans
Instructions
- Cut grapes in half and set aside.
- Dice apples into small pieces about the same size as the cut grapes.
- Toss with lemon juice to prevent the apples from browning.
- Mix yogurt, cream cheese, agave and vanilla until blended well.
- Stir in grapes and apples and pour into 8 small bowls or ramekins or one large serving dish.
- Combine brown sugar and crushed walnuts. Sprinkle over top of each ramekin.
- Chill until ready to serve.
