Reduced-Fat Chocolate Cream Pie

Name: Reduced-Fat Chocolate Cream Pie
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 8 whole, chocolate graham crackers, broken into 1-inch pieces; 3 tablespoons, granulated sugar; 3 tablespoons, unsalted butter, melted and cooled; 1 ounce (28 grams), neufchatel cheese, softened; 1/2 cup (3 1/2 ounces; 99 grams), granulated sugar; 3 tablespoons, cornstarch; 2 tablespoons, Dutch-processed cocoa; 1/8 teaspoon, salt; 2 1/2 cups, whole milk; 1 , large egg, lightly beaten; 4 ounces (113 grams), bittersweet chocolate, chopped fine; 2 teaspoons, vanilla extract; 1/2 cup, heavy cream; 1 tablespoon, confectioners' sugar; 1/2 teaspoon, vanilla extract

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Appears in Cook's Country June/July 2012

Desserts or Baked Goods

Healthier pie with real butter in the crust, real chocolate and milk in the pudding, and real heavy cream in the topping? Really?

SERVES8

TIME1 hour, plus 3½ hours cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Using chocolate graham crackers in place of Oreo cookies for our pie crust gives us great chocolate flavor for significantly fewer calories. The test kitchen’s reduced-fat chocolate pudding recipe needed to be thickened with a few extra oun...

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