Easy Dessert Recipes

We have with us today yet another prize-winning thousand dollar easy dessert recipe. The Merry Cherry Plum Berry Tart (it rhymes!) is a recipe by Denise Pounds of Hutchinson, Kansas, which she entered in the 2008 Pillsbury® Refrigerated Pie Crusts State Fair National Championship and won the grand prize.

Merry Cherry-Plum-Berry Tart

Ingredients:

Crust and Topping

1 box (15 oz) Pillsbury® refrigerated pie crusts
1/4 cup chopped almonds
3 tablespoons turbinado sugar

Filling

1/2 cup dried cranberries
1/2 cup dried cherries
3/4 cup amaretto
1 1/4 cups fresh blueberries
2 plums, cut into pieces
1 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch

White Amaretto Truffle Sauce

2 oz white vanilla baking chips (1/3 cup)
1/2 cup whipping cream
2 tablespoons amaretto

Directions:

1. Heat oven to 425°F. Let 1 pie crust stand at room temperature 15 minutes to soften; unroll crust into 9-inch tart pan. Lightly press crust into fluted edge of pan. Run rolling pin across top of pan to cut off excess crust. Prick side and bottom of crust with fork. Bake 10 minutes. In 2-quart saucepan, heat dried cranberries, dried cherries and 3/4 cup amaretto over medium heat 5 minutes. Add blueberries and plums. Cook 15 minutes longer. Stir in cornstarch. Pour into partially baked crust.

2. Remove remaining pie crust from refrigerator. Chop cold crust into small pieces, adding almonds and sugar while chopping, to make crumbly topping. Sprinkle over filling. Bake 30 to 35 minutes. Cool 15 minutes.

3. Place baking chips in medium bowl; set aside. In 1-quart saucepan, heat cream over low heat. As soon as bubbles form around edge of pan, remove from heat; pour warm cream over baking chips in bowl. Stir until chips are melted and completely smooth. Stir in 2 tablespoons amaretto. Refrigerate 1 hour, stirring every 15 minutes. Stir sauce well before serving. Drizzle each serving with about 2 tablespoons amaretto sauce. Cover and refrigerate any remaining pie and sauce.

8 servings

1 Serving: Calories 500 (Calories from Fat 200); Total Fat 22g (Saturated Fat 9g); Cholesterol 25mg; Sodium 240mg; Potassium 160mg; Total Carbohydrate 64g (Dietary Fiber 2g); Protein 2g

% Daily Value: Vitamin A 6%; Vitamin C 4%; Calcium 4%; Iron 4%; Vitamin D 0%; Folic Acid 0%

Exchanges: 1 Starch, 1 Fruit, 2 1/2 Other Carbohydrate, 4 1/2 Fat

Carbohydrate Choices: 4

*Recipe and photo taken from Kansas CW

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