Terrific Fruit Dessert - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1 cup all-purpose flour
    1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
    1/2 cup butter, cut into chunks
    8 ounces cream cheese
    1/2 cup white sugar
    1 teaspoon vanilla extract
    4 bananas, sliced
    1 (15 ounce) can mandarin oranges, drained and juice reserved
    1 pint fresh strawberries, sliced
    1 cup seedless grapes
    Glaze:
    water as needed
    1/2 cup white sugar
    2 tablespoons cornstarch
    1 teaspoon lemon juice
Preparation
    Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
    Whisk flour and confectioners' sugar together in a mixing bowl. Cut in the butter with a knife or pastry blender until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Pat flour-butter mixture into the bottom of a small rimmed baking sheet.
    Bake in the preheated oven until golden, 8 to 10 minutes. Cool completely.
    Beat cream cheese, 1/2 cup white sugar, and vanilla together in a bowl until smooth and creamy; spread over cooled crust.
    Arrange bananas, mandarin oranges, strawberries, and grapes on top of the cream cheese spread.
    Add enough water to reserved mandarin orange juice to equal 1 cup liquid. Whisk orange liquid, 1/2 cup white sugar, cornstarch, and lemon juice together in a saucepan; boil, whisking constantly, until thickened, about 1 minute. Drizzle glaze over fruit. Refrigerate until cold, at least 1 hour.

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