Strawberry Super Pie

By LPGerrald

Ingredients

• crust:
• 1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter, melted
• 1 1/2 cup flour
• 1 tablespoon sugar
• 3/4 cup shopped pecans
• topping:
• 2 lbs. strawberreis, divided
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 cup sugar
• 3 tablespoons cornstarch
• filling:
• 1 1/4 cup whipping cream
• 4 oz. cream cheese, softened
• 3/4 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/2 cup confectioner's sugar

Preparation

Step 1

Heat oven to 375 degrees.
Mix melted butter with flour, sugar and nuts. Press into 10" pie plate. Bake 25 minutes or until light brown. Cool completely.

Mash enough berries to make 1 cup. Cut tops off remaining berries. Place mashed berries in saucepan and add water. Mix sugar and cornstarch into berry sauce and bring to boil, stirring. Boil about 1 mintue or until clear and thickened. Cool.

Whip cream till stiff. In another bowl, beat cream cheese with vanilla and sugar. Carefully fold whipped cream into cream cheese mixture. Spread in cooled crust and refrigerate.

When crushed berries are cool, assemble pie. Stand whole (or halved) berries on top of cream filling, cut side down. When entire filling is covered with berries, carefully spoon topping over all. Fill all crevices, but do not overfill. Chill till served.