Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Please vote for my pie!

Once again, I am entering a BakeSpace cook-off contest. The theme for this month's contest (in preparation for the impending new year's resolutions) is "healthy menu ideas" (as in low-fat, low-cal, vegetarian, etc. etc. food)

Below is the recipe I entered for my "Mostly Fat Free (but delicious!) Chocolate Chip Pie." If you like it, please take a moment to vote for it, by clicking here. Once you are on the page, scroll to the bottom and click "BakeSpace Cookoff."
I don't have a picture yet, but if you make it and take a picture and send it to me (or upload it to flickr and then add me as your flickr friend), I would love to post it (giving you full credit, of course).
Thanks!!


Mostly Fat Free (but delicious!)
Chocolate Chip Pie


Backstory
This is a recipe I created to bring to a weekly dinner get-together with friends while I was on Weight Watchers. I had become tired of not being able to eat dessert like my other (non-Weight Watchers) friends and I so I volunteered to bring dessert the next week. Since some of the boys were opposed to eating anything "girly" (i.e. food with the fat and sugar content removed), we didn't tell them our little secret until the end of the night when they wouldn't stop raving about how much they loved this pie!

Ingredients
Two packages sugar-free, fat-free vanilla pudding
1 1/2 cups cold skim milk
1 1/4 cups sugar free chocolate chips, divided
Pre-made Graham Cracker crust
1 8oz container Fat Free Whipped Topping

Directions

Filling
Whisk milk, pudding mix and half of whipped topping together in a bowl for about 1 minute (mixture will be very thick).

Add 1 cup of chocolate chips and whisk until evenly spread throughout mixture.

Pie
Scrape chocolate/pudding mixture into graham cracker crust and spread evenly. Spread other half of whipped topping on top of pie filling, smoothing to make a pretty dome.

Topping
Put remaining 1/8 cup chocolate chips into a small zip-lock baggie. Microwave for 1 minute or until chocolate is melted through, stopping every 10 seconds to squish contents of bag together to ensure even heating. Do not over-cook chocolate!

Once chocolate is melted, squish chocolate into lower corner of plastic baggie and twist. Use kitchen shears to trim off a corner of the bag. Drizzle melted chocolate on top of pie.

Refrigerate pie until ready to serve or for at least 30 minutes.

Voting Poll:

3 comments:

Comments make me happy! Thanks in advance for sharing your thoughts.

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Please vote for my pie!

Once again, I am entering a BakeSpace cook-off contest. The theme for this month's contest (in preparation for the impending new year's resolutions) is "healthy menu ideas" (as in low-fat, low-cal, vegetarian, etc. etc. food)

Below is the recipe I entered for my "Mostly Fat Free (but delicious!) Chocolate Chip Pie." If you like it, please take a moment to vote for it, by clicking here. Once you are on the page, scroll to the bottom and click "BakeSpace Cookoff."
I don't have a picture yet, but if you make it and take a picture and send it to me (or upload it to flickr and then add me as your flickr friend), I would love to post it (giving you full credit, of course).
Thanks!!


Mostly Fat Free (but delicious!)
Chocolate Chip Pie


Backstory
This is a recipe I created to bring to a weekly dinner get-together with friends while I was on Weight Watchers. I had become tired of not being able to eat dessert like my other (non-Weight Watchers) friends and I so I volunteered to bring dessert the next week. Since some of the boys were opposed to eating anything "girly" (i.e. food with the fat and sugar content removed), we didn't tell them our little secret until the end of the night when they wouldn't stop raving about how much they loved this pie!

Ingredients
Two packages sugar-free, fat-free vanilla pudding
1 1/2 cups cold skim milk
1 1/4 cups sugar free chocolate chips, divided
Pre-made Graham Cracker crust
1 8oz container Fat Free Whipped Topping

Directions

Filling
Whisk milk, pudding mix and half of whipped topping together in a bowl for about 1 minute (mixture will be very thick).

Add 1 cup of chocolate chips and whisk until evenly spread throughout mixture.

Pie
Scrape chocolate/pudding mixture into graham cracker crust and spread evenly. Spread other half of whipped topping on top of pie filling, smoothing to make a pretty dome.

Topping
Put remaining 1/8 cup chocolate chips into a small zip-lock baggie. Microwave for 1 minute or until chocolate is melted through, stopping every 10 seconds to squish contents of bag together to ensure even heating. Do not over-cook chocolate!

Once chocolate is melted, squish chocolate into lower corner of plastic baggie and twist. Use kitchen shears to trim off a corner of the bag. Drizzle melted chocolate on top of pie.

Refrigerate pie until ready to serve or for at least 30 minutes.

Voting Poll:

3 comments:

Comments make me happy! Thanks in advance for sharing your thoughts.

 
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