Old-Fashioned Cherry Delight Recipe - Amish Heritage (2024)

Amish Cherry Delight Recipe

Old-fashioned Amish Cherry Delight is a classic dessert that features a graham cracker crust, a cream cheese filling, and a topping of fresh or canned cherry pie filling.

This dessert is made in a 9x13-inch dish and is served chilled. The tangy flavor of the cherries and the sweet, creamy texture of the cream cheese filling balance each other out, making this dessert a crowd-pleaser.

Amish Cherry Delight is a simple and easy-to-make dessert that is perfect for family gatherings, potlucks, or other special events.

No-Bake Cherry Delight

To make Old-Fashioned Cherry Delight, you will need ingredients such as graham cracker crumbs, butter, cream cheese, sugar, whipped cream, and cherry pie filling.

The crust is made by mixing graham cracker crumbs with melted butter and sugar and pressing the mixture into the bottom of a 9x13" dish.

The filling is made by mixing cream cheese, sugar, and whipped cream together and pouring it over the crust.

Finally, the cherry pie filling is spooned over the top, and this easy No-Bake Cherry Delight is refrigerated until ready to serve.

Cherry Delight Recipe 9x13 Pan

This cherry delight with a graham cracker crust has three layers, but none of them take very long to make. So it's a simple dessert that will come together very quickly.

For the crust, you can either crush the graham crackers with a rolling pin in a ziplock bag or toss them into a food processor to make crumbs. Melt the butter in a microwave-safe bowl, then add the crumbs and sugar. Mix well and spread it into a 9x13" dish. Press the crumbs into the bottom to pack them together.

For the middle layer, beat the cream cheese until creamy. Then mix in the vanilla and powdered sugar. Add the heavy whipping cream and mix, scraping the sides and bottom of the bowl. Then turn it to high speed and whip it until thick and creamy.

If you are using Cool Whip instead of whipping cream, you will only mix gently after adding it. Cool Whip will get runny if it's mixed too much.

Drop the cream cheese mixture by large spoonfuls over the crust and carefully spread to cover.

Then simply open two cans of pie filling and spoon it over the top. Or you can make pie filling from scratch if desired.

(If you'd like to serve cherry delight in a pie form instead of a 9x13" pan, check out my recipe for Easy Cherry Pie with a Graham Crust.)

Cool Whip or Whipping Cream

I loved Cool Whip when I was a kid! And sometimes I sneaked spoonfuls and ate it like ice cream.

But somewhere along the line, I discovered that whipped cream tastes so much better than Cool Whip. It doesn't have the artificial flavor and high fructose corn syrup that's so bad for us. So I switched to whipped cream in almost all of my recipes.

However, whipped cream is not stabilized like Cool Whip. So if you make a dessert to take along to a hot summer barbecue picnic, it might be better to use Cool Whip since whipped cream can get runny when it gets too warm.

But I replace Cool Whip with whipped cream about 90% of the time because I think it tastes so much better.

Blueberry Delight and Other Variations

Delights, such as peach delight and cherry delight, were served quite frequently at our Amish gatherings when I was growing up. This recipe makes enough to serve a group of people, it's easy to make, easy to transport, and overall a great dessert that everyone seems to enjoy.

This recipe is called cherry delight because it's topped with cherries. But we also used the same base to make numerous other kinds of delights.

Use the same crust and cream cheese filling recipe and top it with blueberry pie filling, peach pie filling, blackberry pie filling, raspberry pie filling, etc. And you can even top it with chocolate pie filling.

If desired, you could also top this cherry delight with chocolate shavings.

Feel free to use chocolate graham cracker crumbs or vanilla wafers for the crust instead of honey graham crackers.

Have fun, get creative, and make a dessert that your family will love!

More Amish Dessert Recipes

Peach Delight Recipe

Easy Caramel Dumplings

Strawberry Tapioca Pudding

Graham Cracker Pudding

Pumpkin Torte

Rhubarb Custard Dessert

This Old-Fashioned Cherry Delight is a delicious and refreshing treat that is perfect for hot summer days when you don't want to turn on the oven. But with its lovely red topping, it's also a delightful dessert for holiday gatherings, such as Valentine's Day or Christmas.

I hope you enjoy this Amish cherry delight as much as my family does. It's always a favorite dessert around here. If you try this recipe, I would love it if you left a star rating and comment below. Thank you!

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Old-Fashioned Amish Cherry Delight Recipe

Old-fashioned Amish cherry delight is an easy, 9x13", no-bake dessert that features a graham cracker crust, cream cheese filling, and a topping of cherry pie filling.

Nutrition

Serving: 1servingCalories: 343kcalCarbohydrates: 49gProtein: 5gFat: 14gSaturated Fat: 8gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 0.2gCholesterol: 34mgSodium: 328mgPotassium: 165mgFiber: 1gSugar: 17gVitamin A: 536IUVitamin C: 2mgCalcium: 83mgIron: 1mg