Blackberry Cream Cheese Pie

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Hubster’s family does Thanksgiving dinner buffet style, both sides of the family spread out in several different rooms. Just like any Thanksgiving, there’s always the traditional pumpkin pie and apple pie with vanilla ice cream. My MIL has everything covered, so only thing left for me to bring is another dessert. Last year I made chocolate gingerbread baby bundts and mini white chocolate raspberry cakes. This year, I made a variation on my raspberry cream cheese pie. It was a daring move since his one aunt usually makes a cheesecake, but it was still well perceived.

Blackberry Cream Cheese Pie

I whipping up a batch of brownie batter, pouring half of it into a large spring form pan. I baked it for about 15 minutes and allowed it to cool. I removed the brownie crust from the pan and placed on a dish. I then whipped up a batch of the cream cheese filling and spread it on top of the brownie. Instead of making a raspberry drizzle, I pulled blackberries out of the freezer to make a blackberry sauce. I made my blackberry sauce a little differently than I normally do, using what ingredients I had on hand. After the sauce was cooled, I poured it over my cream cheese pie.

Blackberry Sauce Ingredients:
2 1/2 c. black berries, 1 Tbs. lemon zest, 1/2 c. blackberry wine, 1/2 c. sugar, 1/4 c. flour

Blackberry Sauce Directions:
Place blackberries, lemon zest and wine in small sauce pan and simmer over low heat. Add sugar and mash berries until only small pieces remain. Slowly stir in flour and remove from heat. Allow sauce to cool before pouring over filling.

*If you don’t have almond extract on hand for the filling, use the same amount of Amaretto.

I realized after the fact that this recipe is a hybrid of my brown bites recipe and my raspberry cream cheese pie recipe. My one nephew even said, “This is like the winter version of your fruit pizza.” Another said, “Aunt R, This is really good, you have to make this for my birthday.”

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Happy Memorial Day! This post goes out to Uncle Tony who paid the ultimate price for our country.

Yesterday, I made fruit pizza for our family get together at Uncle Tony’s memorial pavilion. Hubster’s aunt pointed out that I am always designated to bring the dessert. Hmm. Either they don’t like my food, or they really like my desserts. I’m going with the latter of the two. As his aunt told her friends, “She makes those things in cookbooks that you look at and think ‘Wow, who would ever make that?’ She would, that’s who.” Before we were even there an hour, three people already asked for the recipe, one even wrote it down. Maybe they were just being nice, but I didn’t mind the flattery. So here it is…

Fruit pizza is a yummy dessert that your kids can help make.

Fruit Pizza

Crust Directions:
Use your favorite sugar cookie recipe or a package of ready to use sugar cookie dough. Spread out on a large round or rectangle baking tray and bake until set. Cool before adding frosting.

Frosting Ingredients:
1 – 8 oz. pkg. cream cheese, 3/4 c. sugar, zest of 2 lemons, 2 tsp. almond extract

Frosting Directions:
Soften cream cheese, mix ingredients until smooth. Spread on cooled sugar cookie.

Topping Ingredients:
Today I chose strawberries and blackberries. Choose any combination of you favorite fruits, Strawberries, kiwis, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, chocolate syrup or melted chocolate.

Topping Directions:
Layer fruit on the frosting. Drizzle with chocolate syrup or melted chocolate and garnish with chocolate curls.

*Double up the batch of sugar cookie dough, make it twice as thick and have a “Sicilian” Fruit Pizza.

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What are your Memorial Day plans? Who are you honoring?

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