Cream Cheese Strawberry Pie

Submitted by Deantini

"This pie is just SO delicious - another one of my MIL's delights. Besides the pie shell there is no baking involved. The contrast between the cream cheese filling, strawberries and slight almond taste is what makes this pie."

 

• Ready In: 20mins
• Ingredients: 11
• Yields: 1 pie
• Serves: 8

ingredients

• 1 pie shell, baked (see Perfect Pie Crust, 9 or 10 inch)

• Cream cheese filling

• 250 g light cream cheese
• 2 tablespoons 1% low-fat milk
• 1⁄4 teaspoon almond extract
• 2 tablespoons sugar

• Strawberries

• 4 cups fresh strawberries, halved

• Strawberry sauce

• 1⁄4 - 1⁄2 cup water, start with 1/4 cup
• 2 cups fresh strawberries, can be frozen
• 3⁄4 cup sugar
• 2 1⁄2 tablespoons cornstarch
• 1 tablespoon butter

directions

1. Mix cream cheese, milk, almond extract and sugar in a mixer until well blended. Spread in bottom of pie shell.
2. Place the fresh strawberries on top of the cream cheese mix.
3. In a sauce pan combine water (1/4 cup), 2 cups fresh/frozen strawberries, sugar and warm through until the strawberries are soft enough to mush. In a small bowl add a bit of water to the corn stach and stir until dissolved. Add to strawberry sauce and continue stirring over heat until the sauce thickens and turns clear. This may take 2-4 minute Add more water if too thick, Remove from heat and stir in butter.
4. Pour strawberry sauce over the cream cheese + strawberries. Let set and cool before serving.

Reviews

[Sydney Mike]

Well, I did some juggling with the ingredients when it came to making this pie! I did a 9-inch deep dish pie & doubled the cream cheese filling ingredients, then used about 5 cups of fresh strawberries in the pie! After that I cut the sugar in the sauce back to 1/2 cup because the berries I used there were very, very sweet! Since it was extremely deep dish, I cut the pie into 10 slices & we were extremely satisfied with the wonderful flavor! Thanks so much for sharing it with us! [Made & reviewed in Newest Zaar Tag]

 

[2Bleu]

We decided to go with a graham cracker crust for this pie and it was a great call. Had a little trouble smearing the cream cheese mixture on it (kept breaking), but in time I had it together. There were no instructions to mash the strawberry mixture (only to cook until soft enough to mash). I decided to use my emulsion blender and blended just before adding the cornstarch. The topping did not really thicken up as much as I hoped, but the flavor of the pie is exceptional. The almond extract came thru nicely. We'll be making this recipe often, thanks so much for sharing! :)