HG Upside-Down Chocolate Cream Pie

I am a sweets kind of girl, and almost always have to have something sweet after lunch and dinner.  <br /><br />So, for dessert last night, I decided to try <a href="http://book.hungry-girl.com/recipes/search?q=+chocolate+cream+pie&b=1&commit=SEARCH">Hungry Girl's Upside-Down Chocolate Cream Pie</a>.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.dietsinreview.com/diet_column/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/hungry-girl-book.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://www.dietsinreview.com/diet_column/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/hungry-girl-book.jpg" width="164" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.dietsinreview.com/">Courtesy of Dietsinreview.com</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br />There are 3 simple ingredients to this amazingly chocolaty and delicious recipe, and it might be one of the<br />easiest desserts I've ever made (next to scooping ice cream from a carton of course!).<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigtM0x1_vdBzUjsriR5arx-jxNXvHXnx6HxDCfQsEORTyEXMEk9gOiaoiNT4aPvYdQNuFjFaOm3QTCUbMbi4WF4npeitJpB7PbPxBZIIBYcpXg0a8zTXv4ehv3DTNgQ1FF3aBxZ1PTvKI/s1600/UpsideDownChocolateCreamPieLARGE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigtM0x1_vdBzUjsriR5arx-jxNXvHXnx6HxDCfQsEORTyEXMEk9gOiaoiNT4aPvYdQNuFjFaOm3QTCUbMbi4WF4npeitJpB7PbPxBZIIBYcpXg0a8zTXv4ehv3DTNgQ1FF3aBxZ1PTvKI/s320/UpsideDownChocolateCreamPieLARGE.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://book.hungry-girl.com/recipes/search?q=+chocolate+cream+pie&b=1&commit=SEARCH">Courtesy of Hungry-Girl.com</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><u><b>Hungry Girl's Upside-Down Chocolate Cream Pie</b></u> <i><b>(5 Points+)</b></i><br /><i>Ingredients</i>:</blockquote><blockquote><ul><li>1 Fat Free Chocolate Pudding Snack</li><li>2 Tbsp Lite Cool Whip Topping</li><li>4 Low-fat honey graham crackers, crushed</li></ul></blockquote><blockquote><br /><i>Directions</i>:<br />In a small bowl, add the whipped topping first. Next, add the chocolate pudding.  Top with the graham crackers.  Enjoy!</blockquote><br />A few things to note on the recipe - you could reduce the Points+ value to 4 if you used Cool Whip Fat Free instead of the lite (sugar-free) version.  The fat free version has 0 Points+ for 2 tbsp.  Next time I will go for that instead.  Second, please note that the 4 graham crackers are equal to 1 sheet of the graham crackers (so 1 rectangular cracker on that sheet, is, in fact, 1 cracker here.  It's not that the entire sheet of the graham equals 1 cracker, nor is it that half of it equals 1 cracker.  Make sense?).  Also, while I do love graham crackers, 4 crackers makes a good amount of topping for this dish.  You could reduce that in half, or try just 3 crackers, and it will reduce the Points+ value as well (in this case, from 2 to 1).  So you could theoretically get this dish down to 3 Points+!   <br /><br />Seriously, this is one of those things that you ask yourself, "Why didn't I think of that?"  It's so simple and easy to make.  But most importantly, it really hit the chocolate spot!  It tasted just like a chocolate cream pie - dare I say, even <i>better </i>than the chocolate cream pies I've had.  The <a href="http://www.snackpack.com/products/low-calorie-snacks.jsp">pudding snacks I used</a> offered such a rich chocolate flavor.    <br /><br />What's more, you can essentially sub any flavor of pudding to make the cream pie, bearing in mind that the Points+ value may change of course.  I'm not sure what the volume is in each pudding snack, but all you'd have to do is figure that out, and make a batch of the boxed pudding mix in your flavor choice and use that instead.  It might even be cheaper?  I'm not sure on the Points+ value of that, but I'm certainly going to try it.  I actually have some <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Instant-Pudding-Filling-Pumpkin-3-4-Ounce/dp/B000E1BKI6">Jell-O Pumpkin Spice pudding mix</a> that I'm going to try with this recipe.  That would surely taste like pumpkin pie, right?  I'll find out and let ya know :).  <br /><br />Do you have a favorite go-to dessert that is quick and easy, but also satisfying and delicious?  This is fast becoming mine!

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