ive got a can of cherry pie filling.....

[CarlaRiggs]

My kids love this recipe for Cherry Cream Cheese pie. One of my boys used to make it up at BYU when his apartment would have one of the girls apartments over for dinner... the girls were always *very* impressed with his culinary skills.

Actually quite easy to make.

Cherry Cream Cheese Pie

1 cooled, 9" pie shell

1 cup of whipping cream, whipped - set aside

1 8oz. softened cream cheese (regular cream cheese), whipped with 1 tsp. vanilla and 1 cup of powdered sugar.

Fold the whipped cream into the cheese mixture. Spoon into the pie crust, and then top with the canned cherry pie filling.
Refrigerate at least three hours before serving.

You can make this the day before and it keeps well... unless someone keep filching parts of the cherries.

 

[Zookeeper9000]

CarlaRiggs is that 9" crust a graham cracker crust by chance. Thanks

 

[Linda in San Diego]

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and dont exchange the almond extract for something else, believe it or not almond extract is great with cherries, i use it in my cobbler too.

Whoo, Whoo, gonna have to try that! .... Hmm, gonna need to get cake mix, almond extract, and DD? Eggs? LOL.

 

[BowChickaBowMow]

I wish I'd seen this post yesterday! I cleaned out/organized the pantry and found cherry pie fillings and just couldn't figure out what to make NEW.. we usually do the dump cake w/pineapple. There're some good ideas here!

Off to search for "possum pie"

 

[CarlaRiggs]

ZooKeeper ~

I'm sure that a 9" graham cracker crust would work; it should be a good sized 9" though.

I'm not sure if it would be difficult to put the cream cheese mixture in without disturbing the crumbs.

I generally make my own pie crusts. Quite simple to make with vegetable oil and very delicate/flaky.

Carla

 

[Sugar Sand Farm]

My sons favorite no bake cherry cheescake
2- 8oz cream cheese softened
1- 16 oz sour cream
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 tub coolwhip
1 large graham cracker crust (9in)
blend sugar and cream cheese add vanilla and sour cream and cool whip and a little juice from cherries
pour into graham cracker crust and top with cherries chill at least 2 hours and serve.
I'll bet this will become one of your family favorites. Its the first thing my son wants when he comes home from Iraq. lol That and a corned beef and cabbage dinner.