Southerners love their desserts. Most traditional Southern restaurants serve several classics, and many families continue to offer, at least, something simple and sweet after the dinner meal.
When I was growing up, we always had dessert. Mom did more scratch desserts and most often Pound Cake. That went further and kept better with four kids in the family.
Over the years, a lot of Southern cooks have continued to make semi scratch desserts, but many combine some convenience products to cut the amount of time and work. Cherry Delight is once such quick and easy dessert which still passes the Southern “It better taste good” test.
Cherry Delight Recipe
Ingredients:
- 1 store bought Angel Food cake
- 1 pack 16 oz. cream cheese
- 1 cup sugar
- 2/3 cup evaporated milk (small can size)
- 1 cup chopped nuts (pecans are most often used in the South)
- 1 can of cherry pie filling 21 oz (sweetened type in thick filling)
- 1 12 oz. container Cool Whip
Directions:
- Break angel food cake into bite sized pieces in the bottom of a 9 x 13 casserole dish.
- Let the cream cheese sit out a bit to soften. This just makes it easier to mix.
- Mix together the cream cheese, sugar, and evaporated milk. Be sure you do not get condensed milk. It’s thick, and you need the thinner evaporated milk for mixing.
- Pour the cream cheese mixture over top of the crumbled angel food cake.
- Next layer the nuts on top of the cream cheese mixture.
- Pour the canned cherry pie filling over the nuts.
- Finally, spread the Cool Whip on top as a pretty and fluffy topping which will look like frosting.
- Refrigerator a couple of hours, at least, or overnight.
Other Favorite Southern Dessert Recipes:
Sweet Potato Pie - If you think sweet potatoes are just for side dishes, you've not had sweet potato pie. Yum. It really is fabulous.
Peanut Butter Fudge - This is my boys' all time favorite dessert. It's also one of my easiest dessert recipes.
Pecan Pie - Shut my mouth. This is as Southern as it gets. We are lucky to have pecan trees in the yard, so this is a recipe that we make often. It does take a lot of time in the gym to work it off, but it's worth it.
Strawberry Short Cake - This recipe makes you wish that strawberries were in season all year round. It's hard to beat strawberry shortcake.
Cyndi Allison - Southern born and fed, Cyndi Allison is a college lecturer and newspaper advisor as well as being a freelance writer. She writes on ...
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