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December 23, 2004
mmmmmmm
well, after a certain amount of personal experimentation, i've determined that a) i love the starbucks peppermint mocha and b) it makes me feel like crap. big surprise as it's full of, you guessed it, my favorite new topic, sugar.
so, armed with sugar-free chocolate syrup and a small bottle of peppermint extract, i figured i could produce a similar result. except that i decided to do this at 11pm tonight and coffee, even decaf, seemed like a bad plan.
however, i happened to have some sugar-free chocolate ice cream in the freezer... and so naturally, i just had to make a chocolate mint milkshake (ignoring the fact that chocolate is also a stimulant and is also not something i should be consuming at 11pm... but what the hell.. it's a holiday week.)
YUM! i was surprised at how much ice cream it took, and that vigorous blending makes the texture better. i found that a very small amount of the chocolate syrup helped kick up the flavor, and i was thankfully very conservative with the peppermint extract-- half a capful was plenty for a full glass of milkshake.
now i can see a couple of variants... of course the originally intended warm coffee drink, and then another milkshake with a shot of strong, cold coffee. i don't have an espresso maker (yet-- it's on my xmas list) so i simulate espresso beverages at home with strong, half-caf coffee.
Posted by lisa at December 23, 2004 12:17 AM | TrackBack
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