Ingredients
1. Fresh lemon juice (2 tbsp)
2. sugar (1/2 cup)
3. black cherry preserves (1/2 cup)
4. frozen unsweetened cherries (4 cups)
5. 1/3-less-fat cream cheese (6 ounces)
6. chocolate wafer crumbs (3/4 cup about 15 cookies such as Nabisco’s famous chocolate wafers)
7. grated lemon rind (optional)

Method of preparation:-
1. Take a saucepan of medium size, mix cherries and preserves in it. Keep this mixture to boil and then turn down the heat to medium low and keep it to simmer for about 5 minutes. Now take off the pan from heat and keep it to cool completely.

2. Take a large bowl, mix cheese, juice and sugar in it and beat it with electric mixer at medium speed for about 2 minutes until the mixture becomes smooth. Cover the bowl and keep it to chill.

3. Take 8 glasses; put 2 teaspoons of crumbs in each glass. Add 1 ½ tablespoons of cream cheese mixture and 3 tablespoons of cherry mixture in each glass. Repeat the layer and ending with the cherry mixture. Decorate it with grated lemon rind according to your desire and then serve it immediately.

Number of servings – 8