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Refreshing and Vibrant Summer Fruit Dessert

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The idea of calling this delightful and delectable dessert a recipe is completely laughable.

This dessert is a slightly sweet and totally satisfying cool down on a hot summers day. There's no cooking involved and magic happens when these four simple ingredients meet up. I’m doing it anyway, mostly because y’all need this in your life stat and because I don’t give a donkey’s backside about societal norms.   

Barnyard animals aside, I have been eating this gorgeous bowl of goodness since I was a wee lass, maybe even younger than Ave, even though I was notoriously picky as a child. This fruit filled dessert was a staple in our house growing up and remains one in mine today. I legit look forward to it every year, just as much as those first few berries of the season, eaten right from the vine or bush.

Once spring gives way to summer, the heat rises, and the local local markets are bursting with blueberries and grapes, I know it’s time.

This dessert is a slightly sweet and totally satisfying cool down on a hot summers day. There's no cooking involved and magic happens when these four simple ingredients meet up.

The beauty of this dish is its sheer simplicity. You know how I feel about fast recipes, and I’m telling you it’s the easiest thing in the world to throw together, with only four ingredients, and no cooking involved. As an added bonus, you can be flexible with the measurements. The prep work consists of washing the fruit and serving it up. Seriously that is it. There’s nothing else.

Don’t be fooled by the sparseness of this dessert because there is something absolutely magical that happens when these four innocent ingredients come together.  This dessert is a slightly sweet and totally satisfying cool down on a hot summers day. There's no cooking involved and magic happens when these four simple ingredients meet up.

The combination of blueberries, grapes, sour cream and brown sugar is understated elegance. It’s softly sweet, absolutely refreshing, and the perfect end to a hot summer day. The berries are bold, the grapes are crisp, and the brown sugar and sour cream meld together into a luscious caramel concoction you won’t be able to stop eating.

Trust me, this one is a hit. Your family will laud you, friends will sing your praises, and only you’ll know how easy it was to make, laughable even, until of course they ask for the recipe.  

This dessert is a softly sweet and totally satisfying cool down on a hot summers day. There's no cooking involved and magic happens when these four simple ingredients meet up.

Refreshing and Vibrant Summer Fruit Dessert
This dessert is a softly sweet and totally satisfying cool down on a hot summers day. There's no cooking involved and magic happens when these four simple ingredients meet up.
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Prep Time
5 min
Prep Time
5 min
Ingredients
  1. Blueberries, rinsed
  2. Seedless Green Grapes, rinsed
  3. Sour Cream
  4. Brown Sugar
Instructions
  1. Wash blueberries and grapes and put in a large serving bowl. In small and separate serving bowls, put a couple of spoonfuls of sour cream and brown sugar. Each person should serve themselves by topping their blueberries and grapes with a scoop of sour cream and a sprinkle of brown sugar, adjusting proportions as they see fit.
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What’s one of your favorite summertime desserts? What’s one of your favorite desserts from childhood?

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  3. Wow I was wondering what the crumble looking ingredient was on top but finding out it was brown sugar made my heart happy. I love how much of a smoky caramel taste it always brings to a dish and I bet with the tart sour cream it’s simply heaven. Obviously berries have gone for a wee while here but I know when they come back around I’m going to try this out – easy and simple is where it’s at and this combo is actually something I can keep in my head! Aka the perfect recipe!
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  4. Oh! Thank-You! For a combination that is entirely new to me and I thought I’d seen them all!

    My Mom used to take all seven of us up to her granddaddy’s ancient farm property to pick all of the wild huckleberries we could before the skeeters drove us out. She made a simple dessert similar to yours, sans the grapes and we got to sell what we picked from our wagon in the neighborhood. They were snapped up in a hurry.

    I haven’t thought of this particular nostalgia in ages, so thank-you for taking me with you on that little trip!

    I am going to try your salad tomorrow as soon as I get some organic grapes and blueberries! I already know we will love this unlikely paring! Because you said so.

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  5. Whooooaaa I was sure that was going to be yogurt on there. Was not expecting sour cream! I totally trust you on this one, and cannot wait to try it. I love those super simple, often slightly “weird” recipes you bring with you from childhood. For me, I remember Dad and I dipping rhubarb in sugar, or topping an eggo waffle with ice cream and corn syrup. Very important – not maple syrup – thick corn syrup.
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  6. this is effing genius and has Lulu and Me written all over it!!! i know for sure i would love it because i love tangy and sweet and brown sugar! she would love it because it’s colorful and sweet and creamy. yay. winning

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  8. I am trying this, bringing it to a outdoor birthday party. Thanks you. I also made both your broccoli and asparagus quiches Love them both.

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  9. Sour cream?! And I thought Southerners ate weird shit… 😉

    Though we were just talking about how we used to eat halved pears with a scoop of mayo in the center and shredded yellow cheese on top. Why mom fed us that, I’ll never know.

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