Dessert / Jello: Orange Banana Cheese

By Mary Carey

Ingredients
18 graham crackers, rolled fine
1/3 cup melted butter
1/3 cup sugar
½ teaspoon cinnamon
1 cup water
1 (3 oz.) package orange jello
8 oz cream cheese, softened
2 Tablespoons lemon juice
2 sliced bananas
1 cup sugar
12 oz container of Cool Whip

Directions
Mix together graham cracker crumbs, melted butter, sugar and cinnamon. Line a 9 x 13-inch pan with the cracker crumbs. Save some to sprinkle over the top of the dish.

Dissolve 1 cup boiling water and orange jello. Mix well and cool to room temp.

Then, in a large mixing bowl, put 8 oz package softened cream cheese, 3 Tablespoons lemon juice, 2 slices bananas, 1 cup sugar. Beat with electric mixer until bananas are minced. Add cooled jello to the cream cheese. Mix and set in refrigerator until thick like egg whites. Fold in 12 oz. of Cool Whip. Pour in lined pan.

Top with leftover graham cracker crumbs. Set in refrigerator 24 hours. (It should stay in refrigerator).