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Cherry Dessert Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
8 oz cream cheese (do not use lite), room temp
1c white granular sugar
16 ounces of Cool Whip (keep in refrig until ready to use; should not be frozen solid)
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 box of vanilla wafers, crushed
8 Tbsp butter, melted
2 regular size cans of cherry pie filling
Directions:
Directions:
Crush vanilla wafers and place in a bowl. Pour melted butter over crushed wafers and mix. With a spoon place wafer / butter base mixture in the bottom of your dish/es. Using the back of the spoon, press the mixture firmly in the bottom of your dish.

Note: I have used a 9x11 glass dish in the past for this dessert. For this Christmas I disbursed the mix across 4 each 3" diameter Christmas dishes and 4 each 6" pie pans.

In your mixer bowl place the cream cheese and whip until smooth. Slowly add the sugar; continue to whip until sugar is completely incorporated.

Add Cool Whip one large spoonful at a time; continue to mix until blended. Make sure there are no clumps of cream cheese / sugar visible.

Add vanilla extract.

Spoon mixture on top of the crushed vanilla wafer base. Smooth with spatula.

Refrigerate overnight before adding pie filling.

Note: Do not spoon on pie filling until the cream cheese mixture has had an opportunity to firm up. If you do not wait your pie filling will sink into the cream cheese / Cool Whip layer below.

The next day, spoon the cherry pie filling on top of the cream cheese / Cool Whip mixture. Keep refrigerated until you're ready to serve. Chill remaining dessert.

Note: You can open the pie filling and refrigerate it overnight in a separate bowl so that it is chilling while the cream cheese mixture sets up.
Number Of Servings:
Number Of Servings:
15
Preparation Time:
Preparation Time:
12 hours

 

 

 

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