Apricot Pie - cooking recipe

Ingredients

4 oz. cream cheese
1 tsp. vanilla
4 Tbsp. powdered sugar
1 c. whipping cream
pinch of salt
1 small pkg. orange Jell-O
12 oz. dried apricots
6 Tbsp. white sugar
2 c. water
pie crust

Preparation

Bake crust in a 10-inch pie plate.
Place water and apricots in saucepan and bring to a boil, simmer 10 minutes.
Mix cream cheese, powdered sugar and vanilla until smooth; whip cream and fold into cream cheese mixture.
Pour into pie crust and place in refrigerator until apricot topping is ready.
Put jello in large bowl.
Measure 2 cups hot juice from cooked apricots.
Add juice to jello and stir until it is dissolved.
Whip apricots with 6 tablespoons sugar and add to gelatin mixture.
Add salt; let cool and thicken.
Pour over cheese mixture.