Easy Orange-Cranberry Dessert

Ingredients
1 pkg. vanilla pudding and pie filling (not instant)
2 C. milk
1 C. heavy whipping cream
1 T. powdered sugar
1 pkg. frozen pound cake, thawed (10.75 oz)
1/4 C. orange-flavored liqueur or orange juice
1 C. fresh raspberries
1 can (11 oz.) mandarin orange segments, drained
additional fresh raspberries if desired
Directions
1. Mix pudding mix and milk into 2-qt saucepan.  Heat to boiling over medium heat, stirring constantly; remove from heat.  Place plastic wrap directing on pudding.  Refrigerate 2 hours or until completely cooled.

2. Beat whipping cream in chilled small bowl with electric mixer on high speed until soft peaks form.  Add powdered sugar; beat until stiff peaks form.  Fold 1/2 C. of the whipped cream into the pudding.

3.  Cut off pound cake into 1/2-inch slices; cut each slice crosswise in half.  Arrange about 1/3 of the cake pieces in the bottom of a bowl with slanted sides, or arrange about 1/2 of the cake pieces in bottom of a bowl with straight sides.  Sprinkle with 2 T.  of the liqueur.  Spread about 1/3 or 1/2 of the cranberry-orange sauce over cake pieces.  Top with half each of the raspberry and orange segments.  Spoon 1 C. of the pudding mixture over fruit.  Repeat layers with remaining cake, liqueur, cranberry-oranges sauce, raspberries, orange segments and pudding mixture.  Top with remaining whipped cream.  Refrigerate 1 hour before serving.  Garnish with additional raspberries.
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