Fruit Cocktail Pie Food

FOUR FRUIT PIE BARS

Steps:

• HEAT oven to 350 degrees F. Combine cookie mix and flour in medium bowl. Add butter and egg. Mix until soft dough is formed. Wrap 1/3 of dough in plastic wrap. Chill for 1 hour.
• PRESS remaining 2/3 dough evenly in bottom of rimmed 15 x 10-inch baking pan. Spread raspberry preserves in 3 1/2 inch wide strip over dough. Repeat with apricot, blueberry and strawberry preserves creating four equal strips. Roll out chilled dough between lightly floured sheets of wax paper into 15 x 10-inch rectangle. Cut 18 1/2-inch wide strips with pizza cutter or knife. Freeze strips for 15 minutes.
• PLACE chilled dough strips over preserves 1/2-inch apart in diagonal lattice pattern, 9 in each direction. Trim edges of dough even with pan. Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until preserves begin to bubble in center. Let cool completely. Cut into 48 bars.
• TWO FRUIT PIE BARS
• Prepare recipe as directed except substitute 1 cup each of 2 varieties of preserves for the 4 (1/2 cup) portions of preserves. Spread in 4 alternating strips.

FRUIT COCKTAIL PIE

Steps:

• Drain juice from fruit cocktail, reserving juice.
• Mix sugar, cornstarch, and cinnamon and add to juice.
• Add butter and cook over low heat until mixture thickens.
• Line pie plate with bottom crust.
• Add fruit and thickened juice.
• Top with second crust.
• Brush with egg wash.
• Bake at 375 degrees for 50 minutes or until bubbly and brown.

FRUIT COCKTAIL CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease one 9x9 inch square baking pan.
• Combine the flour, white sugar, egg, baking soda, vanilla and undrained fruit cocktail. Mix until blended. Pour batter into the prepared pan and sprinkle the top with the brown sugar.
• Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 40 minutes or until golden brown and firm.

FRUIT COCKTAIL DELIGHT

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine fruit cocktail and dry pudding mix; stir for 2 minutes. Let stand for 2 minutes or until soft-set. Chill until serving. Fold in marshmallows just before serving. Garnish with nuts if desired. Refrigerate leftovers.

FRUIT COCKTAIL CHIFFON PIE

Steps:

• In a large mixing bowl stir cream cheese with a spoon until soft.
• Add dry pudding mix, dry milk powder and water.
• Mix well using a wire whisk.
• Fold in 1/2 cup Cool Whip Lite. Add fruit cocktail.
• Mix gently to combine.
• Pour mixture into piecrust.
• Refrigerate until ready to serve.
• When serving, top each piece with 1 tablespoon Cool Whip Lite.

FRUIT COCKTAIL CREAM PIE

Steps:

• Graham Cracker Crust: Combine crumbs, butter and 1/4 cup sugar. Reserve 2 tablespoons of mixture and set aside. Press remaining mixture on bottom and sides of 8"-inch springform pan. Bake at 350 for 10 minutes.
• Filling: Combine sour cream, sugar, lemon peel, lemon juice, and vanilla. Reserve 1/4 cup of the fruit cocktail, pour remaining into sour cream mixture. Pour into crust. Top with reserved crumbs.
• Bake at 350 for 25 minutes. Let cool and chill.
• Just before serving, garnish with reserved fruit.

HOLIDAY FRUIT COCKTAIL CAKE

Steps:

• Mix together by hand the flour, sugar, soda, salt, eggs and fruit cocktail with juice.
• Do not over mix and do not beat.
• Pour into a 9x13 cake pan sprayed with pam.
• Sprinkle 1/2 cup brown sugar and 1/2 cup chopped pecans over top of cake.
• Bake at 325 degrees for 40 minutes.
• Remove and place on a rack to cool.
• While cooling (15 minutes) in a medium pan bring to a slow boil the evaporated milk, sugar and butter.
• Once the butter is melted and the slow boil is reached remove from heat and stir in the vanilla.
• With a carving fork poke"lots" of holes in the cake and slowly pour butter sauce evenly all through cake.

MILLIONAIRE PIE

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients and pour into pie crust.
• Refrigerate 4 to 5 hours.
• Serve.

FRUIT ICEBOX PIE

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, cream together butter and confectioners sugar. mix in eggs and vanilla extract. Spread half of cookie crumbs into bottom of a 9 inch pie pan. Spread creamed mixture evenly over the crumbs.
• Whip cream until soft peaks form. Gently fold in pineapple, bananas, dates, and nuts. Spread over butter mixture. Top with remaining cookie crumbs.
• Cover tightly with plastic wrap. Chill 24 hours before serving.

FRUIT COCKTAIL SQUARES

Steps:

• Drain the fruit cocktail and reserve 1/3 cup of the syrup. Add the 1 tablespoon maraschino cherry syrup to the reserved fruit cocktail syrup. Chop the drained fruit, and set it aside.
• Stir together in a bowl the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
• In a large bowl, cream together the butter or margarine and sugar. Beat in the egg and vanilla extract.
• Add the flour mixture, alternating with the syrups, to the creamed mixture. Mix well. Stir in the chopped fruit, the coconut and the cherries.
• Spread dough into a greased 9 inch square pan. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 30 to 35 minutes. Cool. Sprinkle sifted confectioners' sugar over the top if desired. Cut into squares.