| Have you ever eaten strawberries dipped in | | | | 1 cup mashed strawberries |
| chocolate? If so, you know how delicious they are, | | | | 1 chocolate Ready Crust, made with Hershey's |
| so delicious you can hardly stop eating them. The | | | | chocolate |
| slightly tart flavor of the strawberries offsets the | | | | 1 cup Splenda Sugar Blend for Baking |
| sweetness of the chocolate. Fresh Strawberry Pie | | | | 1/2 cup water |
| with Chocolate Drizzle is based on this flavor | | | | 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice |
| combination. The recipe has been around for years | | | | 4 tablespoons corn starch |
| and I have lightened it. | | | | 1 8-ounce carton "free" whipped topping |
| Pastry crust is high in fat so I used a chocolate | | | | Hershey's light chocolate syrup |
| crumb crust. I replaced the sugar with a | | | | Rinse, dry, and hull the strawberries. Arrange two |
| Splenda-sugar blend. Instead of whipped cream I | | | | cups of whole strawberries, pointed ends up, in the |
| used "free" whipped topping. You must use really | | | | chocolate crust. |
| fresh strawberries for this pie, not bruised ones, so | | | | Combine 1 cup mashed strawberries, the Splenda |
| look them over carefully. Rinse the strawberries and | | | | Sugar Blend for Baking, water, lemon juice, and corn |
| dry them with a paper towel before you hull them. | | | | starch in a medium saucepan. Cook, stirring often, |
| Chill the pie for two hours before slicing. Fresh | | | | until glaze has thickened. Cool glaze for two minutes |
| Strawberry Pie with Chocolate Drizzle will be gone in | | | | and pour over whole strawberries. Chill the pie until |
| the blink of an eye. | | | | the glaze has set. Frost pie with whipped topping. |
| FRESH STRAWBERRY PIE WITH CHOCOLATE | | | | Drizzle chocolate syrup in zig-zag lines over frosting. |
| DRIZZLE | | | | Makes 8 yummy servings. |
| 2 cups whole strawberries | | | | |