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Article: Tradition colors this festive cream-cheese pie dessert
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
- Article date:
- November 21, 2001
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Cranberries are one of the hallmarks of the Thanksgiving holiday. We can imagine the Pilgrims in Massachusetts discovering and enjoying the bright fruit that was already a staple among American Indians and which grew abundantly in the region.
This dessert makes colorful use of cranberries, adding their tangy flavor to chocolate in a cream-cheese pie.
A graham-cracker crust is layered with melted semisweet chocolate chips blended with cream, and a cream-cheese filling that includes melted white chips, lemon peel and orange juice.
The sweetened fresh cranberries give the pie a fruity ...