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Enlightened Apple Cream Pie -- e-w

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Best Recipes – Diabetic Cooking 2003
Enlightened Apple Cream Pie -- e-w
Plan ahead…needs to refrigerate 1 hour before serving.
Serves: 8

Butter-Flavored nonstick cooking spray
2 c. thinly sliced, tart apples, unpeeled
2 T. sugar
2 T. lemon juice
1 pkg. (8 oz.) low-fat cream cheese, softened
1-1/4 c. skim milk. ‘divided’
1 3-1/2 oz sugar-free instant vanilla pudding mix
1 tsp. grated lemon peel
1 reduced-fat pastry pie shell (9-in.), baked and cooled
1/4 c. no-sugar-added apricot preserves, melted

Spray skillet with cooking spray. Cook apples, sugar and lemon juice over medium heat until apples are tender, about 5 minutes. Cool.

Beat cream cheese until smooth. Gradually beat in 1 c. milk, pudding mix and lemon peel. Add remaining 1/4 c. milk; beat until thick, about 1 minute. Mound filling into pie shell. Arrange apples over filling. Brush apple with preserves. Refrigerate 1 hour before serving.

One slice equals: 263 calories…10 gm fat (4 gm saturated)…36 gm carbohydrate…17 mg cholesterol…2 gm fiber…6 gm protein…410 mg sodium +++EXC: 1 starch…1-1/2 fruit…2 fat +++WWP: 6