CHERRY YUM YUM

3 cups graham cracker crumbs
1-1/2 sticks melted margarine
1-8 oz. package cream cheese
3/4 cup sugar
1 t. vanilla
2 packages Dream Whip
1 cup 1/2 and 1/2
2 cans cherry pie filling

Mix crumbs and margarine together.  Spread half the mixture in bottom of 9 x 15 baking dish.  Blend cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla.  Fold in Dream Whip which has been made with the 1/2 and 1/2.  Pour half the cream mixture over the crumbs.  Top with the cherry pie filling.  Add remaining cheese mixture and remainder of crumbs.  Chill overnight.  Cut into 15 servings.

First of all, this has a cool name, so I had to try it!  It's very attractive and easy to make.  I couldn't find Dream Whip.  This could be something they don't make anymore, so I used 8 oz. Cool Whip instead of the Dream Whip mixed with 1/2 and 1/2.  I still have a lot left over, so maybe not as good as I wanted it to be.  It's pretty sweet.  You could gain five pounds just looking at a piece of it.....