Baked Huckleberry Cream Cheese Pie

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• 1 unbaked pie shell
• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1/3 cup evaporated milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 -3 cups huckleberries
• 1/3 cup cold water
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 2 teaspoons fresh lemon zest or 2 teaspoons dried lemon rind
• 1/3 cup cold water
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• aluminum foil

Recipe

• 1 3 inch wide strips of tinfoil around edges of crusts.preheat oven 400* prebake pie crust or pie crusts if you make two pies for 8 minutes.
• 2 take out and cool.
• 3 turn oven down to 375*.
• 4 in mixing bowl add cream cheese, beaten eggs.
• 5 1 cup powdered sugar, evaporated milk.
• 6 1 tsp vanilla. mix low speed until blended.
• 7 in another mixing bowl, mix 2 1/2 cups huckleberries, sugar, lemon juice and lemon zest or dried rnd. mix and set aside.
• 8 mix 1/3 cup cold water and cornstarch together. add to huckleberry mixture and mix well.
• 9 note:.
• 10 put 1/3 cup cold water and 1/2 cup huckleberries in blender and blend.
• 11 add to huckleberry mixture. this is an optional step. if you don't want more juice just add in 1/2 cup huckberries and don't blend.
• 12 add the fruit mixture into the cream cheese mixture. mix or fold, your preference.
• 13 spoon and pour into prebaked crust or crusts.
• 14 bake 30-35 minutes. then cool.