Pineapple Cheese Ball

I visited Mom at Loyalton today and one of the nurses, Sharon had made this for the residents and staff back in the Memory Care Unit. It was delicious and Mom liked it too. I had to have the recipe! I love pineapple and love cheesecake so this was a no brainer for me. If you like cheesecake, you should like this too! Quick and easy!

Ingredients:
8 ounce package of cream cheese, softened
1 large box of dry vanilla pudding
1 of the smallest cans of pineapple- DO NOT DRAIN!
Chopped pecans
Graham Crackers

Mix softened cream cheese, dry pudding mix and undrained pineapple thoroughly.
Form a ball and roll in chopped pecans.
Serve with graham crackers broken into the smallest size.

I might try it with more pineapple, but it was excellent as prepared above.

Dump Cake

Dump Cake

Also known as 1-2-3-4 Dump Cake, this is for people who don't have time to grate cocoanut, zest lemons and limes, shave chocolate, peel apples, sift together ingredients, buy extra spices that you may never use again, etc. There are many versions of "Dump Cake" around. I like this one because it has fruit, it only takes 4 ingredients and it is EASY! My Mom always kept the ingredients on-hand so in a pinch she could throw it together and be ready for company or a covered dish meal in less than an hour with something home-made.

Ingredients:

1 can of pineapple chunks

1 can of cherry pie filling

1 white or yellow cake mix

1 stick of butter or margarine

Directions:
Get a 13x9 baking dish, dump the fruit in there, sprinkle the cake mix over evenly, then cut the butter/margarine into chunks over the cake mix powder. Bake for 40 min at 350 (or until crusty stuff is golden brown).
(You can also substitute the fruit fillings with various fruit pie fillings.)