CHIPS AHOY! Basketball Fruit "Pie"

It's game time! This arrangement of mandarin orange segments and blueberries forms a basketball on top of a 12-inch pudding covered cookie crust.

Prep time:

0 min

Total time:

0 h 0 min

Servings:

Makes 12 servings.

Ingredient list

28 CHIPS AHOY! Cookies, finely crushed
¼ cup butter, melted
1 pkg. (8 oz.) brick cream cheese, softened
¾ cup milk
3 cans (11 oz. each) mandarin orange segments, well drained with 1/4 cup liquid reserved
1 pkg. (4-serving size) French vanilla instant pudding mix
1½ cups thawed frozen whipped topping
¾ cup blueberries

Directions

Heat oven to 350°F.

Combine cookie crumbs and butter; press onto bottom of foil-covered 12-inch pizza pan sprayed with cooking spray.

Bake 5 min. or until crust is lightly browned; cool completely.

Beat cream cheese in large bowl with mixer until creamy. Gradually blend in milk, then reserved mandarin orange liquid. Add dry pudding mix; beat 2 min. (Pudding mixture will be thick.) Add whipped topping; mix well.

Spread cream cheese mixture onto crust; top with oranges and blueberries to resemble basketball as shown in photo.

Refrigerate 2 hours.

Recipe Tips

Make AheadThe cookie crust can be baked ahead of time; cool completely. Wrap in foil. Refrigerate up to 2 days before using as directed. If desired, the cream cheese mixture can be prepared and spread onto crust ahead of time. Refrigerate up to 8 hours before topping with the fruit. Once the fruit has been added to the pizza, the dessert can be refrigerated up to 2 hours before serving.
VariationPrepare using Neufchatel cheese and frozen light whipped topping.