Berry Delightful (Danish Dessert)

From: Andrea Nielsen

Crust:
2 cups Flour
1 cup Butter
1/2 cup Brown Sugar
1/2 cup Nuts (optional)

Filling:
1 cup Whipped Cream (topping or whip your own)
1 tsp Vanilla
1 cup Powdered Sugar
1 8 oz. Package Cream Cheese (softened)

Topping:
1 Package Danish Dessert
1 lb fresh or frozen berries (at least!)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Mix flour,butter, sugar and nuts until combined.
3. Press into a large pan (like a cookie sheet with sides).  You can use a 9x13 pan, but the crust will be thicker.
4. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes or until light brown.
5. Cool (at least 15 min) then crumble.  
6. After crumbled, press down in pan and place pan in the fridge to harden (so much easier to spread the cream part on hard crust!).
7. Mix up the cream cheese until smooth.  Add whipped cream, vanilla, and powdered sugar.  Whip those ingredients up until fluffy.
8. Carefully, spread the cream cheese mixture over the crust.  
9. Make the danish dessert according to the pie glaze directions on the box.  Cool slightly then add fruit.
10. Pour over the cream cheese mixture.
11. Chill.

Helpful Hints 

• I recommend making the crust ahead of time so it's easier to spread later.  The longer the crust has cooled, but easier the spreading will be. 
• The cream cheese mixture tends to be a little thin when making it in a huge cookie pan.  You may want to double it and save some of it for graham cracker dipping or something.  Or, try adding a half more of the ingredients for the cream cheese mixture.
• I like to almost double the amount of fruit.
• When doubling the recipe and using two large cookie sheets, triple it instead.  Otherwise, it's a little too thin to go around.