I first discovered this dessert when a friend who is a professional chef would cook this for our family. That was in the days of hubby practicing medicine full time.
While I never had the nerve to ask him for the recipe, Faith and I spliced and tweaked several recipes to come up with our own concoction. We love the results and it’s always a crowd pleaser when friends come over.
As a side note, I even helped make this dessert on a missions trip last summer for 150 people! Trust me when I say, “That’s a lot of blueberries!”
Fabulous Blueberry Delight
Crust (double these ingredients if you want a thicker crust)
1 ½ sticks butter
1 ½ cups flour
1 ½ cups chopped pecans
Topping
1 8oz. pkg. cream cheese
1 ½ cups confectioner’s sugar
½ tsp. vanilla extract
1 8 oz. Cool Whip–DEFROSTED
2, 20 oz. DRAINED crushed pineapple
2, 20 oz. blueberry pie filling
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Melt the butter.
- Mix flour and pecans together in a separate bowl.
- Add melted butter to flour mixture. Press into 9 x 13 pan that has been sprayed with Pam.
- Bake crust for 30 minutes. It should be slightly brown along the edges.
- ALLOW TO COOL.
- While the crust is cooling, combine cream cheese, confectioner’s sugar, and vanilla in a large bowl.
- Beat until smooth.
- Put into this mixture the defrosted Cool Whip and beat until blended.
- Add the cans of crushed pineapple into this mixture and mix until blended.
- Spread mixture onto the COOLED crust.
- Spread the cans of blueberry filling on top of mixture.
- Chill before serving.
