Frozen Chocolate Kisses

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Ingredients:

• 1 cup heavy cream
• 4 oz. cream cheese
• 1 pkg. sugar-free chocolate pudding mix (Jell-O brand is the lowest I've found)
• Optional: 2 tsp. peanut butter

With an electric mixer, mix the cream and cream cheese together, and then blend in the pudding mix. It should be very thick, like frosting. Using a piping bag with either a large round tip (#12) or a star tip, pipe the mixture into approximately 200 "kisses," about the same size as a Hershey's kiss, onto wax paper on a cookie sheet. Freeze until hard, then remove and store in a covered container in the freezer. The entire batch contains about 42 grams of carbohydrates, so the approximate carb count is: 5 kisses = 1 gram.

This recipe is an unpublished work of Rani Merens, Steve's wife. Rani is an accomplished chef and also hosts a low-carb cooking chat at Thrive@aol.com

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