CHERRY NUT CREAM CHEESE PIE


Pappy and Granny Carr
For the holidays... Cherry Nut Cream Cheese Pie!  This is Granny Carr's recipe... she was my great-great-grandmother!

Cherry Nut Cream Cheese Pie

Ingredients for crust...
2 cups of self rising flour
2 sticks butter
½ c. of sugar
½ c. of chopped pecans

Melt butter.  Mix with flour, nuts, and sugar. Press in 9 X 13 Baking dish. Bake at 350 degrees for about 15 minutes or until light brown.  Cool.

Ingredients for filling...
8 oz. box Philadelphia Cream Cheese
1 box powdered sugar
Two envelopes dream whip
1 can cherry pie filling (or other pie filling)

Bring 8 oz. box of Philadelphia cream cheese to room temperature then blend.  Add a box of powdered sugar.  Beat two envelopes of dream whip and fold into powdered sugar mixture.  Spread on crust.  Refrigerate.  Then top with cherry pie filling.

Ok, so I'll admit... I've never made this.  But it's one of Granny Carr's recipes... and she would be related to me... therefore... it must be amazing.  Happy Holidays!