Cream Cheese Salad Food

PINEAPPLE & CREAM CHEESE JELL-O SALAD

Steps:

• Dissolve JELL-O in 2 cups boiling water. Whisk in softened cream cheese until thoroughly blended. Then add crushed pineapple, pineapple juice and 1/2 cup cold water. Pour into 6-cup mold and refrigerate until set.
• Turn out mold onto serving plate. Spoon COOL WHIP into center of mold.
• Arrange your choice of fresh or frozen fruit on top as desired. (I'm not entirely happy about the color of the kiwi in combination with the color of the JELL-O, but since it tastes great, I live with it. Ha!)
• Serve immediately, and be sure to add a big spoonful of the fruit and COOL WHIP to your JELL-O for a cool, creamy and refreshing fruit dessert!

PHILADELPHIA CREAM CHEESE SALAD

Steps:

• Cream cheese needs to be soft. Add Miracle Whip, stir till well blended.
• Add pineapple & cherries, blend well. Add juice from pineapple, enough to make it easy to stir.
• Add Cool Whip and fold in. Add marshmallows and fold in. A little cherry juice is also good to give extra color and flavor.

PINEAPPLE CREAM CHEESE SALAD

Steps:

• In a small saucepan, over medium heat, warm the pineapple, cream cheese, and Splenda or sugar until smooth. Stir gently. This does not take long.
• Remove from heat.
• In a small dish, add the water. Then add the unflavored gelatin to it. Allow a few seconds for it to dissolve.
• Add Knox and water mixture to the pineapple mixture. Stir well to blend.
• Pour pineapple mixture in a pretty glass bowl. Gently place a few cherries on top, if desired.
• Place in refrigerator to set. Chill at least 3 hours before serving.
• Note: The 3 hours is your cook tiime. Also note that the small package of Knox unflavored gelatin wasn't labeled with number of ounces. Since I had removed them from the box, I guess at the number of ounces.

CREAM CHEESE FRUIT SALAD

Steps:

• Beat the cream cheese and sugar together in a large bowl. On high speed, beat in the whipped topping. Fold in the bananas, pineapple, fruit cocktail, apple, and coconut. If desired, mix in the maraschino cherries, pecans, and raisins. Pour the salad into a serving bowl, and chill 1 hour before serving.

CREAMY FRUITED-LIME JELL-O® SALAD

Steps:

• Add boiling water to gelatin mix in large bowl; stir 3 min. until completely dissolved. Stir in pineapple. Refrigerate 1-1/4 hours or until slightly thickened.
• Mix cream cheese and cottage cheese in medium bowl until blended. Gently stir in COOL WHIP with whisk. Gradually add to gelatin, mixing well after each addition. Stir in nuts and cherries. Pour into 6-cup mold sprayed with cooking spray.
• Refrigerate 4 hours or until firm. Unmold before serving.

APRICOT CREAM CHEESE SALAD

Steps:

• GELATIN BASE.
• Mix jello and water and chill until syrupy (30 minutes est.).
• Slice bananas 1/8" thick, half or quarter each slice to your preference in salads.
• Combine bananas, drained pineapple and marshmallows into syrupy jello, mixing well.
• Pour into 9x9 or 9x12 dish and chill until firm (several hours).
• TOPPING.
• In a sauce pan, mix together 1/2 Cup Pineapple Juice, 1/2 Cup Sugar, 2 T Butter, 2 T Flour, and 1 well beaten egg.
• Cook on medium to medium-high heat until thick. Remove from burner.
• Add 3 oz cream cheese from refrigerator stirring until dissolved in sauce pan.
• Spread Topping evenly over congealed salad.
• Chill some more for topping to set (1-2 hours).
• Serve in squares.

CREAMY GRAPE SALAD

Steps:

• In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese, sour cream, sugar and vanilla until blended. Add grapes and toss to coat. , Transfer to a serving bowl. Cover and refrigerate until serving. Sprinkle with brown sugar and pecans just before serving.

SNICKERS SALAD

Steps:

• Mix cream cheese and powdered sugar until thoroughly blended.
• Fold in Cool Whip.
• Cut Snickers into bite size chunks and add to cream cheese mixture.
• Chop the apples into chunks and stir.
• Chill 1 hour before serving.
• Chilling for a long period of time (such as overnight) will result in liquid being released from the salad.

CRAB SALAD WITH CREAM CHEESE

Steps:

• Put crab meat in a mixing bowl and stir until crab has shredded into small pieces.
• Add cream cheese, mix until well combined.
• Add the remaining ingredients, mix until well combined.
• Place in fridge until cold.
• Serve cold on croissants, crackers, bread etc!
• *The salad will not have big pieces of crab, when mixing it breaks it down*.

PEAR SALAD WITH CREAM CHEESE AND LIME GELATIN

Steps:

• In a small saucepan, add 1 cup of pear juice and bring to a boil.
• Remove from heat.
• In a large bowl combine dry lime gelatin with pear juice and stir until gelatin is dissolved.
• Chill until partially set.
• In a medium bowl, cream the cream cheese with milk until blended and smooth.
• In a small bowl, mash pears until smooth. Mix with the cream cheese mixture and mix until smooth.
• Combine gelatin mixture and cream cheese mixture and blend until smooth.
• Fold in cool whip.
• Pour into a mold or leave in a bowl and chill 2-3 hours or until set.

CREAMY CHICKEN SALAD

Steps:

• Drain chicken.
• Combine cream cheese, sour cream, pepper, worcestershire, onion, and garlic powder. Mix well.
• Add drained chicken and mix well.
• Allow to refrigerate for a couple hours to let the flavors develop and the onions soften.
• Serve with crackers or make a sandwich!

CREAM CHEESE TEA SANDWICHES WITH SALAD BURNET

Steps:

• Spread the butter on each slice of bread.
• *Note: due to salad burnet's delicate nature, it is not necessary or really possible to mince the leaves. Add them whole to the cream cheese.
• In a small bowl combine the salad burnet and cream cheese. Add salt and pepper, to taste. Mix well.
• Spread the cream cheese mixture on two slices of bread. Place other slices on top and cut sandwiches in half or quarters.

PHILADELPHIA CREAM CHEESE CHICKEN SALAD

Steps:

• Drain water from chicken, put chicken in bowl, and set aside.
• Then add to the chicken the softened cream cheese and Miracle Whip. The Miracle Whip is according to taste (1/2 cup).
• Finally, add a few sprinkles of dried onion flakes.