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Cream Cheese Fruit Delight

strawberry delight 2bCream Cheese Dessert.

This is a great dessert, no matter which season of the year. I grew up on this dessert, and someone almost always brought it to family reunions or church potluck dinners. It’s one of those dishes that keeps people coming back for more. We referred to this as Cherry Delight because it was often made with cherries. Sometimes we made Blueberry Delight. I’ve changed the name because when you’re making it with strawberries, “cherry” or “blueberry” doesn’t fit!

When there is fresh fruit in the summer, you can make your own pie filling with fresh fruit. I have made this with wild blackberries that grow in our pasture and with fresh peaches. You can use the recipe posted here or here if you want to make your own pie filling. Just change the flavor of jello you use to match the fruit you are using.

Refreshing Summer Cream Cheese Dessert

This is a cool and refreshing dessert in the summer and a comfort dessert in the winter. When no fruit is in season, I use canned blueberry or canned cherry pie filling. It is always a hit.

blueberry delight partly eaten 2b

cherry delight in pan with spoon 2

Easy in Several Steps

This recipe can be made a few days ahead. I make the filling and then layer it onto the graham cracker crust the day I want to serve the dessert.

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the graham cracker crust (the dish is stoneware from Celebrating Home)

This is a cool and refreshing dessert and is colorful as well as tasty. You can use low-fat cream cheese or regular cream cheese. You can use Dream Whip as the recipe calls for, or you can substitute Cool Whip and then not add as much sugar. (Or buy real cream and whip it, adding a little vanilla in place of the Dream Whip.)

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the cream cheese filling

For this recipe, I sliced some fresh peaches and added a little sugar; folks just spooned the peaches on top of the dessert. I didn’t get any photos because the peaches were gone quickly. I had also made a strawberry pie filling and the photos you see here are from that pie filling recipe, which can be found here.

Cream Cheese Delight

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This recipe is simple to make and makes a great addition to a potluck dinner or any meal. You get to choose the fruit topping, and it can be made a day or so ahead. If you want to substitute
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Course Blackberry, Blueberry, Fruit Delight (Cherry, Peach), Strawberry
Servings 12 servings

Ingredients
  

  • 1 1/2 pack graham crackers crushed
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 8 oz. cream cheese
  • 1 cup confectioners sugar
  • 1 package Dream Whip 1/2 cup milk and 1 tsp vanilla

Instructions
 

  • Mix graham crackers and melted butter
  • Press into a 9 x 13 in. pan
  • Bake at 350 for 10 minutes
  • Cool completely
  • Mix Dream Whip according to directions on the box
  • Add cream cheese, and confectioners sugar and mix well.
  • Spread over crust and cover with thickened fruit.

 

cream cheese delight

 

 

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