Dessert Recipes
Pineapple Cheesecake Squares
Ingredients
Crust
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2/3 cup butter, melted
- 1/2 cup almonds, toasted and chopped
- 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
Filling
- 16 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2/3 cup unsweetened pineapple juice
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 20 ounce crushed pineapple, drained (juice reserved)
- 1/2 cup whipping cream
Instructions
Crust
- Mix all ingredients in a medium size bowl with a fork until crumbly. Press firmly and evenly into the bottom of an ungreased 13 x 9 inch pan.
- Bake until set at 350 degrees F for about 15 to 20 minutes.
Filling
- Beat cream cheese in a medium size bowl until smooth and fluffy.
- Beat in the 1/2 cup sugar and eggs.
- Stir in 1/4 cup pineapple juice.
- Pour cream cheese mixture over hot crust.
- Bake just until center is set, about 20 minutes.
- Cool completely.
- Mix flour and 1/4 cup sugar in a 2 quart saucepan.
- Stir in 1 cup reserved pineapple juice. Heat to boiling over medium heat, stirring constantly. Boil and stir for
1 minute.
- Remove from heat; fold in pineapple.
- Cool completely.
- Beat whipping cream in a chilled bowl until stiff.
- Fold into the pineapple mixture.
- Spread carefully over dessert.
- Cover loosely and refrigerate until firm, about 4 hours.