This Cherry Delight Recipe is an easy no-bake cream cheese dessert recipe. Cherry Pie filling brings a beautiful red color making it a perfect dessert for Christmas or Valentines Day. So delicious, you simply can’t have just one helping.
I hope this post finds everyone basking in the wonderful Holiday Season. I picture all of you enjoying the postmortem of the season; browsing through new cookbooks, playing with gifted electronics, fiddling with new kitchen gadgets, grazing on leftovers and most importantly, enjoying family.
I know one thing for sure, I don’t remember feeling one single hunger pang since before Thanksgiving.
This is my Cherry Delight Recipe. I served it at the Christmas Eve family dinner.
Making Cream Cheese Cherry Delight Recipe
I’ve had this recipe for 100 years. It’s one of those oldies-but-goodies that probably came off of either a Cool Whip container or a package of Cream Cheese. It’s really so so so very good.
The only baking part of this recipe is making the graham cracker crust. From that point, Cherry Delight is a no-bake dessert that everyone will love. And oh-so easy.
How to Build this Cream Cheese Cherry Dessert
- Start by making the graham cracker crust by combining melted butter, graham cracker crumbs, sugar and brown sugar. Press it into your pie shell and bake for 7 minutes. Then refrigerate until cool and set.
- Spread 1/2 of the Cool Whip over the graham cracker crust.
- Combine room temperature cream cheese and pecans together. Gently spread it over the Cool Whip . I find that placing dollops of this on top of the Cool Whip works well. Then using the back of a spoon carefully move it around so the cream cheese mixture fills in to cover.
- Then add the cherry pie filling on top of the cream cheese mixture.
- Add the rest of the Cool Whip and with the back of a spoon, spread it to cover the top.
- Sprinkle with crumbled graham crackers.
- Chill over night.
NOTE: Double this recipe and use a 9 x 11 baking dish to make a larger dessert to feed a crowd.
The end result is an absolutely wonderful combination of flavors. And thanks to the cream cheese and pecans, not too overly sweet.
And its beautiful red and white color is perfect for Christmas or Valentine’s Day. Actually, I make this year round. It’s a crowd pleaser.
Recipe for Cherry Delight Dessert
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And if you have a favorite no-bake cherry dessert recipe, let me know, I’d love to give it a try.
More Holiday Worthy Desserts
- Butterscotch Pudding Recipe
- Chile Chocolate Cake
- Orange Pound Cake with Sugared Cranberries
- Creme Fraiche Cranberry Pear Tart
- Ricotta Chocolate Custard with Raspberry Sauce
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Cherry Delight, Cream Cheese Cherry Dessert
Ingredients
- For the Graham Cracker Crust
- 1 1/2 cups Graham Cracker Crumbs 10 sheets of of Graham Crackers
- 2 Tablespoons sugar
- 2 Tablespoons Brown sugar
- 7 Tablespoons butter melted
- For the Cherry Delight Dessert
- 8 ounces cream cheese room temperature
- 1/2 Cup pecans chopped
- 21 ounce Canned Cherry Pie Filling
- 8 ounce Cool Whip Original
Instructions
- In a food processor, grind the graham crackers into a consistent granulated state. Add the sugars and pulse to combine.
- Press crust into a 9" pie pan. Bake at 375 degrees for 7 minutes. And then refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
- Cream together cream cheese and pecans.
- Spread a layer of Cool Whip on chilled and firm pie crust.
- Top with the cream cheese and pecan mixture.
- Next spread on the Wilderness Cherry Pie Filling. I didn't quite use the whole can.
- Top with a nice thick layer of cool whip. Sprinkle top with unprepared graham cracker crumbs from the box.
- Chill overnight.
Notes
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Cherry Delight Recipe …It’s what’s for a Christmas Dessert.
Now this is the kind of dessert that Im talking about!
I grew up eating this dessert on special occasions. The only deviation was my parents used chocolate pudding (?) instead of the cherry pie filling. Either way, it’s delicious and extreme comfort food. ~ You’ll love the lights. I have three of them, except they don’t fit in the ‘Jimmy Rockford.’ I’ll occasionally go grab one from our (nearby) storage building and set it up outside. I’ve received some pretty interesting looks and comments from people walking by. I can only imagine that they think I’m odd. (And they’re right!) ~ Happy 2017 to you and yours.
Adam, now that you mention it, I’ve had this with chocolate pudding also. It’s all delicious and a blast from our past. Happy 2017 to you and your family.