During this busy season I find it helpful to have some foods stored up in the freezer for a quick dessert, appetizer, or complete meal. These little clouds play a big part in having a beautiful dessert on the table at a moment’s notice. The clouds can be pulled from the freezer while diner is being served and will be defrosted in time to join the coffee or tea service.
Cream Cheese Clouds
1- 8 ounce brick of cream cheese
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1 cup heavy cream
cherry pie filling
In a large mixing bowl using a hand held or stand mixer, mix together cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla until light and fluffy. Slowly add cream and whip until mixture is whipped to a light and fluffy cloud. Line cookie trays with waxed paper and spoon about 1/3 cup sized mounds of the cream mixture on trays and makes a well in each mound using the back of a spoon. Freeze up to 2 hours on trays then remove to an airtight container to store in the freezer. Makes 15 clouds.
To serve- Fill each cloud with cherry pie filling or filling of choice, even fresh fruit is delicious.
Note- You can get very creative with the flavors for this recipe. Lemon, coffee, chocolate, Grand Marnier…and with a variety of fruit, the mixing and matching can go on forever!
Come back tomorrow for Day 12.
Robin Sue
6 Comments
What a beautiful little single serving dessert.
It looks like little piles of snow…which we are getting nailed with right now. Blizzards. Thank goodness I have eggs, sugar, butter and flour to keep me busy!
easy peasy. tasty. and best of all, pretty! i like this one a lot, robin sue!
I'm really liking this one!
Man, Robin Sue you're a blogging machine this month!
~ingrid
Tried these. Loved them! I didn't have pie filling, so I filled them with chocolate pudding. Thanks so much for posting.
These look incredible and incredibly easy. I'm going to have to give them a try!