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No-bake ensalada navideña Carlota pie

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  • 2 whole apples
  • 10 whole strawberry
  • 15 oz fruit cocktail
  • 8 oz cream cheese
  • 12 oz evaporated milk
  • 7.6 oz media crema or heavy cream
  • 14 oz sweetened condensed milk
  • 1 tbsp Mexican vanilla blend
  • ½ cup sweetened coconut
  • 1 pack pulverized galletas Maria
  • 1 tbsp sugar
Line a springform pan with parchment and grease lightly. Mix pulverized Maria cookies with sugar, a pinch of salt and cinnamon; mix in the melted butter.
Pressing the Maria cookie crust
  • salt
  • ½ tsp ground cinnamon
  • 6 tbsp melted butter
Press the crust down evenly and freeze while preparing the fruit.
  • ice cold water
  • salt
Mix ice-cold water with salt as a soaking solution so the apples stay crisp and do not brown.
Trim the washed apples, cut into strips then little cubes, and soak in the solution.
  • red grapes
  • green grapes
  • cherries
  • 2 tbsp fruit cocktail juice
Cut the strawberries, red and green grapes and cherries; add the drained fruit cocktail, reserving two tablespoons of its juice.
  • 1 packet unflavored gelatin
  • 2 tbsp freshly squeezed lime juice
Mix the gelatin into the reserved juice and two tablespoons of lime juice; let it bloom and thicken about five minutes, then microwave 30 seconds.
Blooming the gelatin
Blend cream cheese, evaporated milk, media crema or heavy cream, sweetened condensed milk and Mexican vanilla blend until smooth; on the lowest setting, add the gelatin.
  • crushed pecans
Rinse and dry the apples; add to the fruit with crushed pecans and sweetened coconut; stir in all the cream.
  • freshly squeezed lime juice
Add freshly squeezed lime juice and mix well; it thickens quickly.
Mixing the fruit salad
Transfer to the crust and level; optionally layer with more cookies.
Filling and decorating
  • chopped pecans
Decorate the edges with chopped pecans and crushed Maria cookies and add one cherry.
  • crushed Maria cookies
  • 1 whole cherry
Refrigerate overnight or at least four hours to set, then release the springform pan.
Setting and unmoulding