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By marydalene

I love Kneaders Cafe. It’s a restaurant in the area that specializes in breads, deserts and soups. Yummy stuff. I succumbed one evening while I was getting dinner to also get a slice of their Raspberry Cream Cheese pie. And boy, was I not disappointed. It was delicious.

After that experiment, I decided to try to make my own so that I could have it anytime I wanted (well, at least when raspberries are in season).

My first attempt didn’t turn out too badly, but it was a little more tart than I remembered, and there wasn’t quite enough filling below the raspberry topping.

So I tried again, doubling the filling and making the raspberry topping a bit sweeter, since it was quite tart. And while it’s not an exact replica of Kneader’s pie, it’s close enough to satisfy me. And I love it. :) The recipe, as I cobbled it together from a few different sources and modified to suit my needs, is below.

Raspberry Cream Cheese Pie

Cream cheese filling:
2 – 8 oz. packages of cream cheese, softened
2/3 cup white sugar
1 cup sour cream
2 tablespoons lemon juice

Combine ingredients in bowl and mix well. Pour into pre-baked, cooled pastry shell, or graham cracker crust.

Raspberry topping:
2 cups raspberries
1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons white sugar
3 tablespoons water
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 tablespoon cornstarch

Combine 1 cup raspberries, sugar, lemon juice, cornstarch and water in a small saucepan. Cook over medium heat until thickened, smashing the berries to make a jelly-like consistency. Add remaining berries. Cool. Pour over cream cheese filling. Chill for at least 2 hours before serving.

And then you can have something like this. Yummy.

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  1. BarbaraJuly 2, 2009 at 6:32 PM

    Looks delish!! Thanks for the recipe.

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  2. MaryAnnJuly 2, 2009 at 7:19 PM

    Looks yummy! I will have to give it a try.

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  3. GrammyzanneJuly 2, 2009 at 9:33 PM

    That looks like it ranks up there with the Blue Bell Chocolate Delight we had tonight.

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  4. JoanneJuly 3, 2009 at 7:44 AM

    It looks really good! I love cheesecake!

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  5. Laura StringhamJuly 3, 2009 at 9:01 PM

    Yum. I'm going to have to try that out.

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