Light Chocolate French Silk Pie
Ingredients:
a.. 1 recipe prepared Light Chocolate Cookie Crust
a.. 1 cup sugar divided into ½ cups
a.. ½ cup unsweetened cocoa
a.. ¾ cup fat free half and half or skim milk divided into ½ and
¼ cups or
a.. 1 envelope un-flavored gelatin
a.. 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
a.. 1-8 oz container 50% less fat cream cheese (4.5 grams fat per
1-oz.)
a.. 2-8 oz container fat free whipped topping (Cool Whip, etc.)
a.. 2 tablespoons dark chocolate shavings - optional
Method:
1. Prepare crust according to recipe below and cool to room
temperature, then cover and chill until read to fill.
2. Combine ½ cup sugar and cocoa in heavy saucepan; add ½ cup
milk mixing together well. Stirring constantly with a wire whisk, heat pan
over medium until mixture comes to a gentle boil. Pour mixture into a
large bowl; set aside to cool.
3. Pour remaining 1/4 cup milk into a small saucepan, sprinkle un
flavored gelatin over milk and let sit for 2 to 3 minutes. Stirring
occasionally, heat mixture over low until gelatin dissolves, 2 to 3
minutes. Gently mix gelatin mixture and vanilla into cocoa mixture, blending
all ingredients together set aside to cool.
4. Place cream cheese and ½ cup sugar in large bowl and beat with
a mixer at medium speed until smooth. With mixer on low speed pour
cocoa milk mixture into cream cheese mixture and beat together until well
combined. Using a spatula or wooden spoon fold 1 8-ounce container
whipped topping gently into cocoa cheese mixture until well blended.
5. Pour chocolate filling into pie crust, smoothing out top with
spatula and chill for 3 hours or until set. Spoon second 8-oz container
of whipped topping into a pastry bag fitted with a ½ to 1 inch tip.
Pipe topping decoratively around edges and within center of pie. Sprinkle
with chocolate shavings and serve or return to refrigerator until ready
to serve.
Yield: 10 servings with crust at approximately 280 calories; 6
grams total fat; 1 gram saturated fat; 11 milligrams cholesterol; 55
grams carbohydrate; 2 grams dietary fiber; 6.7 grams protein; 203
milligrams sodium.
Light Chocolate Cookie Crust
Ingredients:
a.. 1 cup low fat chocolate graham cracker crumbs or 8 whole
crackers, crushed or 34 Reduced fat Chocolate Nilla Wafter cookies, crushed
a.. 2 tablespoons sugar
a.. 2 tablespoons Land O Lakes Light Butter (5.5 grams fat per 1
tablespoon) or other light butter or margarine, melted
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