Cherry Berries on a Cloud
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Ingredients
  • MERINGUE SHELL:
  • heavy brown paper, (I use a paper grocery bag.)
  • 3 egg whites, room temperature, if small, use 4
  • ¼ t. cream of tartar
  • ¾ cup sugar
  • FILLING:
  • 1 package(3 oz.) cream cheese, softened
  • ½ cup sugar
  • ½ t. vanilla
  • 1 cup chilled whipping cream
  • 1 cup miniature marshmallows
  • CHERRY-STRAWBERRY TOPPING:
  • 1 lb. 5 oz. can Thank You Cherry Pie Filling
  • 2 cups strawberries, halved
  • 1 t. lemon juice.
Instructions
  1. Heat oven to 275 degrees.
  2. Cover baking sheet with heavy brown paper.
  3. I use a paper grocery sack. Can use baking sheets.
  4. Draw out a 9-inch circle.
  5. Beat egg whites and cream of tartar until foamy.
  6. Beat in sugar, 1 tablespoons at a time.
  7. Continue beating until stiff and glossy.
  8. Do not under or over beat.
  9. On paper, shape meringue into 9-inch circle.
  10. Build up sides, maybe 1 & ¾ inches.
  11. Bake 1 & ½ hours.
  12. Then WITHOUT opening the oven turn oven off.
  13. Leave the meringue in oven for 1 more hour.
  14. Remove from oven; cool meringue away from draft.
  15. With a thin metal pancake flipper, carefully loosen meringue from paper.
  16. Place on TOTALLY flat serving dish.
  17. Do not cover.
  18. In CHILLED, CLEAN bowl, beat whip cream until stiff.
  19. In a different bowl, blend cream cheese, sugar and vanilla.
  20. Gently fold whipped cream and cream cheese mixture together.
  21. Very gently pile into shell…meringue is fragile.
  22. Cover only the filling. Chill at least 12 hours.
  23. Just before serving, top with fruit mixture.
  24. Cut into 8 or 10 wedges.
  25. FOR TOPPING - mix pie filling, and lemon juice together.
  26. Add strawberries, and refrigerate until time to serve.
Recipe by Hopelessly Hopeful at http://www.hopelessly-hopeful.com/2020/08/24/cherry-berries-on-a-cloud/