Recipe Box 2

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                   By: Ed Henderson

               Floyds' Market
                      Sedan, Kansas

Cool Fruity Shortbread Pudding

1 8 oz. pk Cream Cheese
1 3.5 oz. pk Vanilla Instant Pudding mix
1 pint  Half & Half
1/4 cup  Sugar
2 tsps.  Vanilla

Choice of drained canned or fresh fruit
Apple slices
Peach slices
Mandarin Orange slices
Bing cherries
raspberries
black berries
Mango slices
Banana sliced
Crushed pineapple

Shredded coconut (Optional : sprinkled lightly on top)

Shortbread cakes

Keep in mind the fruit pieces  are being kept in suspension within the pudding mix. Each bit will reveal a different flavor.
The amount of fruit pieces may very.

Mix cream cheese, sugar, vanilla, milk, and Vanilla Pudding mix until well blended. Pour into spray coated custard dishes
to half full.
Place one piece of each desired fruit except pineapple into cheese pudding mixture leaving space between each fruit.
Finnish by filling custard bowl with cheese pudding mixture. Cover and refrigerate untill set.

In a saucer place one shortbread cake. Remove fruit cheese pudding from custard bowls center onto top of shortbread cake.
Place 1 teaspoon crushed pineapple on top center of pudding.
Drizzle a little chocolate or fruit  syrup around bottom ring of shortbread cake. Drizzle a small amount syrup over top of desert.
Serve chilled.