Chocolate Elegance

Total Time: 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 1 (250 g) package philadelphia brick cream cheese, softened
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 cups cool whip, thawed
• 6 squares baker's semi-sweet baking chocolate, divided
• 1 (113 g) package jell-o chocolate instant pudding
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/4 cup sliced almonds

Recipe

• 1 beat cream cheese and sugar with mixer until blended. stir in 1 1/2 cups cool whip; spread 2 cup of the mixture over bottom of 8x4-inch loaf pan lined with plastic wrap.
• 2 melt 2 chocolate squares. add to remaining cream cheese along with pudding mix and milk. beat until blended. spread over layer in pan. refrigerate 4 hours.
• 3 microwave remaining chocolate and cool whip in microwaveable bowl on high 1 minute; stir until blended. cool slightly.
• 4 invert dessert onto platter. remove pan and plastic wrap. spread dessert with glaze; top with nuts. refrigerate until glaze is firm.