Penelope's Rice Salad

Penelope's Rice Salad
Categories: Fruit, Nut, Grain, Dairy, Salad, Southern, Dixie, Side dish
Yield: 6

8 oz Cream cheese softened
3 tb Sugar
2 c Cooked rice chilled
1 c Red grapes 1/2'd
1/2 c Maraschino cherries chopped
1 ea Banana sliced 1/8" thick
1 ea 12-oz container frozen whipped topping thawed
1/2 c Pecans toasted & chopped

Combine cream cheese & sugar until smooth.
Add rice, grapes, cherries & banana.
Carefully mix well.
Fold in whipped topping & pecands.
Refrigerate for 2-4 hrs. then serve.

ORIGIN: Penny Rennert, Biloxi-MS, circa 2009