Orange Cream Cheese Pie
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Ingredients
For the Pie
- 3.4 oz box vanilla instant pudding and pie filling
- 5 oz can evaporated milk
- 2 - 8 oz packages cream cheese
- ¾ cup orange juice concentrate, let thaw a bit
- 1 Tbs grated orange peel.
- Orange food coloring
Instructions
For the Pie Crust
- In a medium mixing bowl, add crushed graham crackers, sugar and melted butter. Stir until well incorporated.
- Press into a deep dish pie plate. Using the back of a flat surface, press crust in the bottom and up the sides of the pie dish.
- Bake crust at 350° for 10 minutes. Remove from oven and let cool.
For the Pie Filling
- In a medium mixing bowl, combine evaporated milk and pudding mix.
- Beat on low speed for 2 minutes. Mixture will be thick. Set aside.
- In a medium mixing bowl, beat cream cheese until nice and fluffy, about 3 minutes .
- Gradually beat in frozen orange juice concentrate. Beat until mixed well.
- Stir in grated orange peel.
- Gradually beat in pudding mixture.
- Add orange food coloring to desired color.
- Pour mixture into cooled graham cracker crust, or into a pre-made graham cracker pie crust.
- Cover and refrigerate for at least 4+ hours.
- Best served cold.