Recipe: Easy Cream Cheese Fruit Squares (using pie filling)

Easy Cream Cheese Fruit Squares (using pie filling)
rec.food.recipes/Ed Paulhus/1999

1 cup sugar, divided
1/3 cup butter
1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
3 pkgs. (8 oz. each) cream cheese
4 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
1 (21 oz.) can blueberry filling

Preheat oven to 325F.

To prepare crust:
In medium saucepan place 1/4 cup sugar and butter; heat until butter is melted, stirring occasionally. Stir in graham cracker crumbs; press mixture evenly over the bottom of a 13 x 9-in. baking pan.

In a large bowl with an electric mixer beat cream cheese until smooth. Gradually beat in remaining 3/4 cup sugar. Beat in eggs, one at a time, and vanilla, until well blended.

Spoon blueberry filling over crust. Carefully pour cream cheese mixture over blueberries.

Bake just until set, 45 to 50 minutes. Cool. Chill until cold, about 2 hours or longer.

Cut into 24 squares. Serve garnished with strawberry halves or mint leaves, if desired.