Apple Cream Pie

Creamy vanilla flavored cream cheese filling is topped with sliced apples and refrigerated until ready to serve.

Ingredients -

4 cups thinly sliced peeled Tart Apples
2 tablespoons Sugar
2 tablespoons Lemon Juice
1/4 cup Butter
1 (8 ounces) package Cream Cheese, softened
1-1/2 cups Milk, divided
1 (3.4 ounces) package Instant Vanilla Pudding Mix
1 teaspoon grated Lemon Peel
1 (9-inch) Baked Pastry Shell
1/4 cup Apricot Preserves or Strawberry Jelly, melted

Preparation:

1. Melt butter in large skillet. Saute apples, sugar, and lemon juice in butter until apples are tender. Cool.

2. In medium mixing bowl, beat softened cream cheese until smooth. Gradually beat in 1-cup milk, instant vanilla pudding mix, and lemon peel.

3. Add remaining ½-cup milk and continue beating until thickened.

4. Spread cream cheese mixture over bottom of pastry shell.

5. Arrange apples over cream filling. Brush apples with preserves using pastry brush.

6. Refrigerate 1 hour. Serve chilled.

Cooking Tip

Luxury Brands of Ice Cream

Buy luxury brands of ice cream, sorbet, and frozen yogurt for use in icebox pies. The taste difference is worth the expense.

Baking Tips

Storing Nuts

Store nuts in the freezer in airtight containers, if you wont be using them right away.