Saturday, June 6, 2009

Strawberry Cream Pie

This recipe and picture come from Jonna at "Get Off Your Butt & Bake". It was so easy and yummy. My family just gobbled it all up!!

Graham cracker crust: ~ {you could also use a pre-made crust}.
1 1/4 cups graham cracker crumbs (1 pkg crushed)
1/4 cup granulated sugar
5 Tablespoons melted margarine or butter
Mix above ingredients together. Using the back of a large spoon, press crumb mixture firmly on bottom and up sides of a 9 inch pie plate. Bake crust at 350 degrees for 6 to 8 minutes, or until light golden brown. Cool then fill.
Cream Mixture:
1 small pkg Cream Cheese (3 1/2 oz.)
1 1/4 cups powdered sugar
1 cup Cool Whip (I buy a small cool whip, you will use the rest for the top of pie) ~ {I doubled the recipe so I had a really full pie}
Beat cream cheese with hand mixer, until smooth. Blend in Powdered sugar until smooth. Blend in the cool Whip. Fill Cooled Pie shell with Cream Mixture on bottom and almost to the top of crumb shell. Refrigerate while preparing berry mixture.
For the strawberry topping I just used cleaned and sliced strawberries and added it to the pre-made danish dessert mix, usually found over in the produce by the strawberries, but you can also use the Danish Dessert mix in the box ~ just prepare as directed on the back of the box.

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