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fruit salad cheesecake

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Recipe by
Patsy Fowler
Anderson, SC

a friend of mine that works at the school gave me this recipe i made it tonight for the first time and to my surprise everyone loved it

(1 rating)
yield 8 serving(s)

Ingredients For fruit salad cheesecake

  • 1 1/2
    vanilla wafers
  • 2 Tbsp
    butter, melted
  • FOR FILLING:
  • 1 c
    (20 oz) crushed pineapple, drained
  • 3/4 c
    sugar
  • 1/2 c
    cold water
  • 2
    envelopes unflavored gelatin
  • 8 oz
    cream cheese, cubed
  • 1 1/2 c
    halved seedless grapes
  • 1 can
    mandarin oranges, drained and cut in half (11 oz)
  • 1 jar
    maraschino cherries, drained and roughly chopped
  • 1/2 c
    finely chopped pecans
  • 2 c
    cool whip

How To Make fruit salad cheesecake

  • 1
    in a small bowl, combine vanilla wafer crumbs and melted butter.
  • 2
    press into the bottom of a 9 inch spring form pan coated with nonstick cooking spray. set aside.
  • 3
    in a small saucepan, cook crushed pineapple and sugar over medium heat for 5 minutes or until heated through.
  • 4
    place cold water in a small bowl and sprinkle with gelatin, let stand for 1 minute.
  • 5
    stir gelatin mixture into the warm pineapple mixture. reduce heat to low and add cubed cream cheese.
  • 6
    cook and stir until cream cheese is melted and the mixture is well blended. remove from heat and cool completely.
  • 7
    stir in grapes, mandarin oranges, cherries and pecans into the cooled cream cheese mixture.
  • 8
    fold in the cool whip. pour into prepared pan. cover and refrigerate overnight.

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