Iced Mocha
(Chuck's version)
1 cup extra strong cold coffee
Squeeze of Hershey's syrup
Fill glass with milk
Stir and add ice
2021 to go version:
Add to "to go" container;
1/4 inch cold canned milk (not much needed)
Squeeze of cold Hershey's syrup (as desired)
About 1 cup strongish cold espresso machine coffee, enough to fill or you can add some cold water.
Spring 2021 finds me filling machine full of coffee and as much water as it will take, drink one cup hot espresso, save some, run some more water through machine for cold coffee.
No ice unless it will be a long time away from fridge.
Much better and easier than what follows.
Mocha Syrup
(from internet)
3/4 c. cocoa
2 1/4 c. sugar
a little salt
1 1/2 c. water
2 Tb. coffee crystals
1 tsp. vanilla
Put cocoa, sugar and salt in a pan. Stir. Add
water; stir real good. Let come to a boil. Turn heat low. Simmer about
5 minutes, stirring all the time. Add coffee crystals and stir. This
will make a thin syrup. Let cool; add vanilla. Put chocolate syrup
in a jar with a lid. Keep in refrigerator. For hot chocolate, use
2 teaspoons syrup, 1 cup milk and heat. For cold chocolate, use 2
teaspoons syrup and 1 glass cold milk. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I put a 2 oz jar of instant coffee in this recipe and omitted the vanilla.
It made it very strong like Nescafe Ice Java.
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Thank you Carol for your recipe! I have always wanted a version that
was lower in calories so, taking your recipe, taking the comments
into consideration and having some syrup left to test with I came
up with the following update to Carol's recipe:
1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (Ghirardelli Premium)
1 1/4 cups Splenda
1/2 cup Instant Coffee (Columbium - mid strength)
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups water
1 teaspoon vanilla
Put the dry ingredients into a sauce pan and blend them well.
Add water. Bring to a boil (watch out, it will boil over if you do
not watch. Stir often. Reduce heat to medium and let it reduce by cooking
for 8 to 10 minutes more (this brought it to the thickness of the original
syrup). Stir occasionally.
Add the vanilla if you like that flavor in your coffee.
Nutritional Information: Calories-7 / Carbs-13g / Sodium-9mg (original
nutritional information: Calories-49 / Carbs-98g / Sodium-9mg)
When compared with the Original Nescafe Mocha Ice Java syrup, there
was very little difference. The original had a sharpness that I could
not place, but it was a negligible difference. It was nice to have
my coffee syrup again. |