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Banana Cream Cocoa | Hot Drink Treat Recipe

March 17, 2010 By Laura 5 Comments

If you love chocolate and bananas, you just might love this hot sweet treat, in a cup:  Banana Cream Cocoa.

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I do love chocolate. Don’t all women?  I also love bananas. But somewhere along the way, I saw a pattern, and realized eating raw bananas is not a good idea for me. My stomach goes to hell and back, trying to digest it.  Lots of pain involved. (Does anyone else have this issue?).  But, I can eat bananas cooked in all other forms:  banana bread, banana nut crunch, banana pancakes, Banana Hannah, (just kidding.  Wasn’t me. Swear.)  And once upon a time, I loved eating chocolate covered bananas. Oh how I loved those.  So Banana Cream Cocoa sounded good to me!  We made some yesterday.

banana-cream-cocoa-2 Participating Ingredients:

  • 3 cups milk
  • 1 chopped banana
  • 2 Tbsp. sugar
  • 1 tsp. cinnamon
  • 4 oz. chopped milk chocolate*
  • 1 oz. chopped bittersweet chocolate*

*This time, we chopped chocolate bars with a serrated blade knife.

3_milk Bring 3 cups of milk…..

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1 chopped banana….
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2  Tbsp. sugar….
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…and 1 tsp. of cinnamon to a boil, whisking frequently.
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Add 4 oz. chopped milk chocolate, and 1 oz. bittersweet chocolate….
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banana-cream-cocoa-3 ….and mix some more.

…until all of the chocolate is melted nicely.

Remove from heat, and let sit 1 minute.

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Pour mixture into blender….
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….and puree.
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banana-cream-cocoa Divide into 4 mugs, and go bananas!

Note:  My kids and husband loved it, but a couple of them did think it was very strong in banana, and maybe cinnamon, so you may want to cut those amounts-but of course it’s a personal taste.  I found, when it cooled down enough in my mug, it was delicious!

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Cocoa Colada | Hot Drink Treat Recipe

March 8, 2010 By Laura 13 Comments

If  “sometimes you feel like a nut“, and could go for an Almond Joy, this delicious Cocoa Colada hot drink treat recipe, just might be a quick fix for you!

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  If you bake quite a bit, you may already have all of the ingredients. Or you may not.  But the few things you need are worth running to the store for. Of course, then you could just pick up an Almond Joy, I suppose.  But, that’s beside the point.

Here’s a super simple easy recipe, for a little coco-nutty twist on hot cocoa! Like most of my recipes, this one too is ‘kid approved’ by our kids.

cocoa-colada-hot-drink-recipe Participating Ingredients:  2 14oz. cans of coconut milk, a cup of water, 1/2 cup of sugar, 8 oz. of chopped milk chocolate and coconut flakes, for garnishing. (How easy is this?!)

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cocoa-colada-hot-drink-recipe We needed to pick up the coconut milk, but we already had milk chocolate chips, and decided to use them. They need to be chopped up pretty well.

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If you have one of these handy choppers, you can use it instead of a knife and cutting board.

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cocoa-colada-hot-drink-recipe-2 Take a couple handfuls of coconut flakes, spread them out on a pan, and lightly toast them in whatever way is easier for you. We used our toaster oven.  * Warning:  you really need to keep an eye on it while toasting. Once it starts to toast, it can burn very fast due to the coconut oil of the flakes.  (I forgot to take a photo of ours after toasting.)

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Bring the 2 cans of coconut milk and 1 cup of water, to a simmer over low heat.
Whisk now and then to keep from sticking at the bottom.

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Add 1/2 cup of sugar…..

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…and the 8 oz. of chopped milk chocolate….

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…and whisk until melted.

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Divide cocoa evenly into 4 mugs, and garnish with the toasted coconut. (If you didn’t burn it. ; )

You can also spike it with a little coconut rum, if you’d like!

*But in that case, please don’t serve it to the children. 😉

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Our kiddos loved it!!   Not much conversation. Lots of sipping.

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There was only enough made for 4 servings, and my kiddos had been playing out in the cold for a long time.

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So I let them have it all.

Because I’m thoughtful like that.

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Even with chocolate.

I know. Call me a saint. ; )

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My kids all loved me enough, too, to each let me have a sip of each of theirs.

See?  Love that goes around, comes around.

I had a plan to make and share a Banana Cream Cocoa recipe as well, with this one.  But since it was 60 degrees out today,  I thought maybe I should just hurry up and share this one.

Wishing you just one more chilly day, to try it for yourself!

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