#2643 - Cream Cheese Jell-O Salad

(by Shirley Ross - friend)

1 - 29oz. can fruit cocktail (drained but save the juice)
2 - 3oz. boxes lime Jell-O
1 - 8oz. Philadelphia cream cheese (softened)
2 TBSP milk
1 - 8oz. Cool Whip (thawed)
1 - 3oz. box cherry Jell-O
1/4 cup maraschino cherry pieces (drained)

Place the drained fruit cocktail juice in a saucepan--cook/stir over medium heat until boiling. Once boiling, remove from heat and add both boxes of lime Jell-O--stir until dissolved. Let it cool to room temperature. In a mixer add cream cheese and milk--beat. Remove from mixer--add drained fruit cocktail, maraschino cherry pieces and lime Jell-O mixture--stir until mixed. Add the Cool Whip--stir until mixed. Pour the mixture into a 9 x 13 glass baking dish. Refrigerate until cold and set. Prepare cherry Jell-O according to box directions--let it cool to room temperature. Remove lime Jell-O mixture from refrigerator--pour cherry Jell-O liquid over the top. Refrigerate overnight.