Holiday Cherry Gelatin Pie

Total Time: 4 hrs Preparation Time: 4 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 (9 inch) pie crusts, baked and cooled (can use a 10-inch pie shell also)
• 1 (14 ounce) can pitted tart cherries (not cherry pie filling)
• 1 cup sugar, plus
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1/4 cup flour
• 1 (8 ounce) can crushed pineapple, undrained
• 1 (3 ounce) package cherry gelatin
• 8 -10 drops red food coloring
• 3 medium ripe bananas, sliced (make certain to use yellow ripe bananas with no dark spots)
• 3/4 cup chopped pecans
• whipped cream or cool whip frozen whipped topping, thawed

Recipe

• 1 drain the cherries reserving 2 tablespoons of the juice.
• 2 in a large saucepan combine 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar and flour.
• 3 stir in the crushed pineapple with juice, cherries and the 2 tablespoons reserved cherry juice; bring to a boil, cook stirring for about 2 minutes, or until thickened; remove from heat.
• 4 add in the cherry gelatin powder; stir until dissolved, then stir in the red food colouring.
• 5 chill until partially set.
• 6 stir in the sliced bananas and nuts.
• 7 pour into baked and cooled pie shell.
• 8 refrigerate for a minimum of 3 hours until completely set before serving.
• 9 slice and dollop with whipped cream or cool whip topping, or spread the whipped cream on top of the pie and then slice.