I am not a coffee person till last year. I started taking coffee while i prepare filter coffee for my domestic helper. who can resist filter coffee? I do not know to prepare coffee during my hostel days. my friends help me out with decoction and mixing.
I remember once i had to tell on how to make filter coffee in my class 11 for english viva. when i told, "mix coffee powder with hot milk", everyone in the class started to laugh. When my English teacher started to yell at me, i was just blinking, as i thought that i told the right one. but when the other girl started to tell, i realized, oh there are so many steps in it. which i finished in just one step. sorry to bore you with my memories.
So with this hot climate, i wanted to have cold coffee. i looked many sites, finally this chocolate coffee attracted me. chocolate y coffee is what i arrived at.
To prepare chocolate sauce:
Ingredients:
- Dark chocolate - 25 gms / 1/4 cup
- Butter - 1/2 tbsp
- Sugar / brown sugar - 3 tsp
- Salt - a small pinch
- Honey / Corn syrup - 1 tsp
- Milk - 3 tbsp
Method:
- To prepare chocolate syrup, it should be cooked using double boiling technique. so never cook chocolate in direct heat as it may burn the chocolate.
- For double boiling, take a wide vessel filled half with water. boil the water. take another medium sized bowl that could sit inside the wide vessel.
- Put the dark chocolate, sugar and milk to the medium sized bowl sitting over the boiling water on a wide vessel. reduce the flame to low and start stirring with a wooden spoon till the chocolate melts and blends well with milk.
- Once the chocolate had melted, add honey and butter. keep stirring and in less than 2 minutes the chocolate sauce get thicker. on cooling it may get still thicker, so take it off, while the sauce starts thickening.
- The chocolate sauce will be looking shiny and you can feel it getting thickening. remove it at that point.
I prepared the chocolate syrup a while back and totally forgot. here is when i prepared last.
To prepare cold chocolate coffee
Ingredients:
- Chilled milk - 1 tall glass (boiled and chilled)
- Instant coffee powder - 2 tsp (or)
- Filter Coffee decoction - 2 tbsp
- Cocoa powder - 1/2 tsp
- Sugar - 2 or 3 tsp
- Chocolate syrup - 1 tsp
Method:
- Take a serving glass and drizzle the chocolate syrup into it to create patterns. tilt the glass so that syrup flows and the patterns get set.
- In your mixie jar, add milk, sugar, coffee powder or decoction, cocoa powder and blend well.
- Now pour the cold coffee into the chocolate syrup drizzled glass and serve chilled.