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Very Low Carb Chocolate Mousse Pie

Walnut Pie Crust:
2 cups very finely chopped walnuts (almost to dust, but not a paste)
2 tablespoons butter, softened
3 tablespoons Splenda (Must be sucralose, other artificial sweeteners cannot be baked)

Blend chopped walnuts, sugar, and butter until well mixed, then press into bottom and sides of a 9 inch pie place. Chill while preheating oven to 400 degrees. Bake for 8-10 minutes, just until starting to turn golden. Set aside to cool.

Chocolate Mousse Filling:
1.25 cups milk
1 packet unflavoured gelatin
3.5 Daskalides Sugar free dark belgian chocolate bars, chopped (roughly 6 ounces)
1 large egg
3 ice cubes
.25 cup Splenda (can be some other sweetener, it doesn't need to be cooked)
.5 teaspoon almond extract
.5 cup heavy whipping cream

Put .5 cup milk into a small saucepan (the other .75 cup will be used later) and sprinkle the gelatin over it. Let it stand for a minute to soften. Heat the milk over medium heat, stirring constantly until small bubbles appear at the edges and all the gelatin is dissolved. Remove from heat and pour into a blender or food processor. Add chocolate and process until all chocolate is melted. Add rest of ingredients and process until smooth and well mixed (and the ice is melted).

Pour into prepared crust, cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate for several hours, until set.

You can serve this with whipped cream on top, too, but that's not included in the nutritional analysis.

Now for the nutrional breakdown. This is not a low fat pie, but there are ways you could cut corners. For instance, You could remove saturated fat by using skim milk instead of whole milk, fake eggs instead of a real egg, and margarine instead of butter. Even as is, most of the fat is mono or polyunsaturated, which are fats that help lower cholesterol. Only 25% of the fats are saturated.

I'm giving you a detailed breakdown so you can figure out where you'd like to cut corners for yourself. This doesn't include any calories or such, and the sucralose isn't included since it only really contributes sweet, no fat or carbs.

Total Carbs: 50.25
Total Fiber: 24
Effective Carbs: 26.25 (that's total carbs minus total fiber)
Saturated fat: 58.07
Mononunsaturated fat: 61.905
Polyunsaturated fat: 93.182
Total fat: 213.157

Divide by the number of slices you cut the pie into for the totals per slice.