CheeseFake & Chocolate Fudge Pudding Pie

You know I love my chocolate desserts and wandering down the baking aisle in the supermarket doesn't help sometimes, but this was born from that detour and with my husband's encouragement that, no, I shouldn't buy bags of sugar and chocolate just because it was cold and I felt like baking, instead he suggested non fat pudding as we stood next to the pre made pie crusts and *BAM* I heard trumpets and wanted a pudding pie!

My mother in law also gets kudos for this because she is the one who told me that if you take non fat ricotta cheese and mix it with the instant no fat and no sugar cheesecake pudding, you get a cheesecake fake (Thanks Barbara!!). The taste and texture are slightly different, but it worked for this!

I grabbed a chocolate pie crust which isn't too bad calorie and fat wise because either way, one does need a scant amount of butter to create a crust, a box of instant fat free cheesecake pudding, fat free chocolate fudge pudding, non fat ricotta and low fat whipped topping and lastly, you need skim milk to mix up the chocolate pudding.

Mixed the ricotta and cheesecake pudding and put it in the pie crust and after I mixed up the chocolate pudding with the milk per the packaging instructions, I put that on top and then once the pudding had set in the fridge, I slathered on the whipped topping.

And there you go... Doesn't hold a candle to chocolate cheesecake from the Cheesecake Factory or anything like that and yes, there is a slight chemical after taste from the non fat pudding, in my opinion, but it isn't half bad when you want something sugary and chocolatey without making yourself feel like fitting into your pants the next day is tantamount to climbing Everest...
Just don't eat the whole thing. One slice'll do!