Cream Cheese Pie Food

NO BAKE CREAM CHEESE PIE

Steps:

• 1. Using a blender, blend the softened cream cheese with the condensed milk. Add lemon juice and vanilla. Blend until creamy. Pour into graham cracker crust and chill for at least 1 hour. Add your choice of fruit just before serving. It's also very good without fruit.

CHERRY CREAM CHEESE PIE

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth.
• Add sweetened condensed milk, blending well.
• Add lemon juice and vanilla until well blended.
• Pour into pie crust and chill 3 hours, or until firm.
• Add cherry filling on top of pie.
• You can also use blueberry, or strawberry pie filling.

EASY CREAM CHEESE PIE

Steps:

• Cream together cream cheese and condensed milk until smooth.
• Add lemon juice and blend well.
• Pour into graham cracker crust.
• Top with fruit pie filling.
• Chill for 2 hours before serving.

CREAM CHEESE PIE

Steps:

• Combine cream cheese, eggs, 1 cup sugar, and 1 teaspoon vanilla in the bowl of an electric mixer. Mix on low speed until smooth. Pour filling into graham cracker crust.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 35 minutes. Remove pie from oven. Raise oven temperature to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C).
• In a small bowl, blend sour cream, 2 tablespoons sugar, and 1/4 teaspoon vanilla together. Gently spread mixture over pie.
• Bake for five minutes before serving.

MOM'S CREAM CHEESE PIE

Steps:

• For the graham cracker crust: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Combine the graham cracker crumbs, melted butter, confectioners' sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl. Press into a 9-inch pie pan. Bake for 10 minutes. Cool completely before filling. Leave the oven on.
• For the cream cheese filling: Put the cream cheese, granulated sugar, vanilla and eggs in a medium bowl and beat with a hand mixer on medium speed until smooth. Pour the filling into the cooled crust and bake until set, 15 to 20 minutes. Cool 5 minutes before topping; leave the oven on.
• For the sour cream topping: Combine the sour cream, granulated sugar and vanilla in a small bowl and mix until smooth. Spread onto the pie and bake 10 minutes. Cool to room temperature, then refrigerate until cold, about 4 hours. Slice and serve.

CREAM CHEESE BROWNIE PIE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Place pie crust in 9-inch glass pie plate as directed on box for One-Crust Filled Pie.
• In medium bowl, beat cream cheese layer ingredients with electric mixer on medium speed until smooth.
• Reserve chocolate syrup packet from brownie mix for topping. In large bowl, place brownie mix, oil, water and eggs; beat 50 strokes with spoon.
• Spread 1/2 cup brownie mixture in bottom of crust-lined pie plate. Spoon and carefully spread cream cheese mixture over brownie layer. Top with small spoonfuls of remaining brownie mixture; spread evenly. Sprinkle with pecans. Cover crust edge with 2 to 3-inch wide strips of foil to prevent excessive browning; remove foil during last 15 minutes of bake time.
• Bake 40 to 50 minutes or until center is puffed and crust is golden brown (pie may have cracks on surface).
• In small bowl, mix chocolate syrup from packet and hot fudge topping. Place mixture in small resealable bag. Cut small hole off corner of bag. Drizzle topping over pie. Cool completely, about 3 hours, before serving. Cover and refrigerate any remaining pie.
• High Altitude: (3500-6500 ft)
• Add 3 tablespoons flour to dry brownie mix. Bake as directed above.

CREAM CHEESE CRUST

Steps:

• Pulse the flour, sugar and salt in a food processor. Add the butter and pulse until it is the size of peas. Add the cream cheese and pulse until it is the size of peas. Add the vinegar and 2 tablespoons ice water and pulse a few times, until the dough holds together when squeezed. Gather into a ball on a sheet of plastic wrap. Pat into a disk, wrap and chill at least 4 hours.

FRESH FRUIT CREAM CHEESE PIE

Steps:

• BEAT cream cheese in large bowl with an electric mixer until fluffy. Gradually beat in sweetened condensed milk until smooth. Stir in lemon juice and vanilla. Pour into baked pie crust.
• REFRIGERATE 3 hours or until set. Arrange fruit on top of pie. If coating berries, stir jam or jelly until smooth. Brush berries with jam and serve.
• *If using bananas, dip in lemon juice before placing on pie to keep them from turning brown. Do not coat with jam.

CREAM CHEESE PASTRY DOUGH

Steps:

• In a food processor blend the butter, the cream cheese, the flour, and the salt, pulsing the motor, until the dough just begins to form a ball, gather the dough into a ball, and flatten slightly. Dust the dough with flour and chill it, wrapped in plastic wrap, for 1 hour. The dough may be made 1 day in advance and kept wrapped well and chilled.

DOUBLE-LAYER PUMPKIN PIE

Steps:

• Beat cream cheese, sugar and 1 Tbsp. milk in large bowl with whisk until blended. Stir in half the COOL WHIP. Spread onto bottom of crust.
• Whisk pumpkin, dry pudding mixes, spices and remaining milk in medium bowl 2 min. (Mixture will be thick.) Spread over cream cheese layer.
• Refrigerate 4 hours or until firm.
• Serve topped with remaining COOL WHIP.

CREAM-CHEESE PIE CRUST

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 425°F if you are baking the pie shell.
• Combine the flour and salt in a mixing bowl and stir with a fork to mix, or put into the food processor.
• Add the shortening and cream cheese, and cut them into the flour until the mixture looks like small pebbles, it will be irregular, and some pieces will be larger than others, or process with"pulses" in a food processor.
• Sprinkle the water evenly over the mixture, a little at a time, stirring with a fork or with"pulses" after each addition to distribute the water evenly.
• Depending on the moisture in the cream cheese, the dough might not need all of the second tablespoon.
• If it feels quite soft (but not sticky), and holds together in a rough ball, it is ready to roll out.
• Shape it into a cake about 1 inch thick.
• Dust your rolling surface and rolling pin with flour, and roll the dough into a circle about 1/2 inch thick and at least 2 inches larger than the inverted pie pan.
• Transfer the dough to the pie pan, trim and crimp the edges, and the pie shell is ready to he filled before baking, or to be partially baked or fully baked.
• To bake the pie shell; Prick the dough all over with a fork at 1/2-inch intervals.
• Press a 12-inch square of heavy-duty foil snugly into the pie shell.
• Bake for 6 minutes, then remove the foil and bake for 4 minutes more if you want a partially baked shell.
• If the dough begins to puff or swell, push it down with the tines of a fork.
• If you want a fully baked shell, bake for 8 to 10 minutes more, or until it is lightly browned.

APPLE-CREAM CHEESE PIE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 450 degrees.
• Make pie crust as directed on box for one-crust pie shell, using 9" glass pie pan, except DON'T prick crust.
• Bake 9-11 minute or until light brown. If crust fluffs up gently push down with fork.
• Reduce oven temp to 350.
• In a small bowl, stir together streusel ingredients except butter until it looks like coarse crumbs. Set aside.
• In a large bowl gently mix apple layer ingredients, set aside.
• Mix cream cheese and sugar well. Beat in egg and vanilla and mix well.
• Spread cream cheese mixture into pie shell. Add the apple slices evenly. Top with streusel mixture and top with small chunks of butter.
• Bake 50-60 minutes, or until apples are tender and streusel is golden. You may need to cover the pie loosely with foil the last 15 minutes of baking to prevent over browning.
• Let pie cool 1 hour prior to eating. Store pie in fridge.

CREAM CHEESE PIE CRUST

Steps:

• Combine water and vinegar in a small bowl. Combine flour and salt in another bowl. Using a pastry cutter or your fingers, cut butter and cream cheese into flour mixture until mixture resembles coarse crumbs with some larger pieces remaining.
• Add water mixture to dough in a slow, steady stream, stirring, until mixture just begins to hold together. (Alternatively, pulse ingredients in a food processor.) Turn out onto a piece of plastic wrap, and wrap. Press dough into a disk using a rolling pin. Refrigerate until firm, about 1 hour or overnight. (Dough can be frozen for up to 1 month; thaw before using.)
• Roll dough into a 12-inch round on a lightly floured surface. Fit dough into a 9-inch pie dish. Trim edge, leaving a 1-inch overhang. Turn overhang under so that edge is flush with rim. Flute edge. Freeze until firm, about 15 minutes.
• Make filling (see our Pecan Pie recipe).

COCONUT-CREAM CHEESE PIE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350ºF.
• Combine wafer crumbs, butter and 1/4 cup coconut; press onto bottom and up side of 9-inch pie plate. Bake 10 min. Cool.
• Microwave cream cheese in microwaveable bowl on HIGH 10 sec. or just until softened; stir until creamy. Beat pudding mixes and 2 cups milk in large bowl with whisk 2 min. Add half the cream cheese; mix well. Stir in 3/4 cup of the remaining coconut and 1 cup COOL WHIP. Pour into crust.
• Add sugar and remaining milk to remaining cream cheese; mix well. Stir in remaining COOL WHIP; spread over pie. Refrigerate 3 hours. Meanwhile, toast remaining coconut.
• Sprinkle toasted coconut over pie just before serving.

COFFEE-DRIZZLED CREAM CHEESE PIE

Steps:

• Beat cream cheese in medium bowl until creamy. Gradually add sugar, mixing until well blended. Stir in milk. Remove 1/4 cup of the cream cheese mixture; place in small bowl. Stir in flavored instant coffee mix. Drizzle 1 Tbsp. of the coffee-flavored cream cheese mixture onto bottom of crust. Set remaining flavored cream cheese mixture aside.
• Stir whipped topping gently into remaining plain cream cheese mixture, stirring just until marbleized. Spoon into crust. Drizzle with remaining coffee-flavored cream cheese mixture. Swirl knife gently through mixtures several times for marble effect.
• Refrigerate 2 hours or until set. Store leftover pie in refrigerator.

LEMON CREAM CHEESE PIE

Steps:

• Crust: mix together the crust ingredients; turn the mixture into a 9-inch pie plate; using your fingertips, distribute the mixture evenly and loosely over the sides first and then the bottom.
• Then press the crust firmly and evenly on the sides, pushing it up from the bottom a bit to form a rim slightly (barely) higher than the edge of the pie plate.
• After pressing the sides and top edge firmly, press the remaining crumbs evenly and firmly over the bottom; bake for 8 minutes at 375°, then cool to room temperature.
• Filling: place oven rack in the middle of the oven; preheat to 350°.
• In a small bowl, mix rind and juice; set aside.
• In a food processor fitted with the metal chopping blade, process cottage cheese or ricotta cheese until it is as smooth as honey (it takes a full minute in a processor).
• In the small bowl of an electric mixer beat the cream cheese until it is perfectly smooth.
• Add the smooth cottage cheese and beat to mix.
• Then add the sugar, vanilla, and the eggs one at a time, scraping the bowl with a rubber spatula and beating until smooth after each addition.
• When the filling is perfectly smooth, remove the bowl from the mixer; stir in the lemon rind and juice, and pour filling into prepared crust.
• Bake for 30 minutes; remove from oven and cool completely.
• Topping: in a chilled bowl with chilled beaters, whip the whipping cream until it holds a firm shape when the beaters are raised.
• In another bowl, stir the sour cream until it is soft and smooth; stir in the sugar.
• Then gently fold in the sour cream and whipped cream together.
• Just pile the topping loosely on top of the pie, letting some of the filling show around the edges.
• Refrigerate for at least a few hours.

PARADISE PUMPKIN PIE WITH CREAM CHEESE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F.
• Prepare crust in 9-inch pie plate as directed on package for one crust filled pie.
• Beat cream cheese, 1/4 cup sugar and vanilla with mixer until blended. Add 1 egg; mix well. Pour into crust.
• Mix pumpkin, milk, spices, remaining sugar and eggs in separate bowl until blended; pour slowly over cream cheese layer in crust.
• Bake 1 hour 5 min. or until center is set. Cool completely.

PISTACHIO CREAM CHEESE PIE

Steps:

• BEAT cream cheese, 1 Tbsp. milk and sugar in large bowl with wire whisk until well blended. Gently stir in 1 cup of the whipped topping. Spread onto bottom of crust.
• POUR 1-2/3 cups milk into another large bowl. Add pudding mix. Beat with wire whisk 2 minutes or until well blended. (Mixture will be thick.) Immediately stir in the remaining whipped topping, extract, and food coloring. Spread over cream cheese layer in crust. Top with chocolate topping or syrup.
• REFRIGERATE 4 hours or until set. Store leftover pie in refrigerator.