Cold cocoa drink

The indtroduction

Hello everyone, I hope that you all are doing fine!

Now I want to share another recipe with you and I think, that it’s something great! Well, to tell you the truth, it’s another one of my recipes, I guess, because it’s not prepared with an exact recipe of any website. You know, I searched the Internet for this kind of recipe, but I didn’t really find one, that would be acceptable or something like that, so that I decided to make the recipe of my own. I must say, that it came out pretty delicious, well, at least, it was kind of what I wanted. This is a simple recipe of cocoa, I mean, I drank it like a cold cocoa drink.

You know, cocoa is something very good for people. Nowadays more and more people approve, that cocoa is a great thing for our body and mind and we should all drink it from time to time, and I mean, the real cocoa, not those mixed stuff filled with sugar and nothing else. I must tell you, that I had hot cocoa drink almost every day in my childhood, however, my sister was keen on drinking it and not me and she is like addicted to cocoa, I mean, the powder or beans or whatever you call it. So, it was like a classic hot cocoa drink with all that milk and cocoa powder and sugar and it was pretty good, as they say. My father really loves cocoa, and he always drinks it whenever we have it, however, it’s not that often that we have it, I guess, because we don’t drink much milk and when you buy milk, you should drink it, or else it will get bitter and usually the milk is in 1 litre bottles, so that if not many people want to drink it, or some people want to prepare something with milk, you should not buy it, I guess.

So, preparing some hot cocoa was not something that I learned many years ago, if you want to know the truth, rather, I would just drink what my mother would prepare or my aunt, and it was all delicious. I can say, however, that they would prepare hot cocoa drink with milk and I guess, that every child hates that cream that covers the milk after boiling. That thick mass gets every child not want to drink that milk or hot cocoa or whatever you prepare with it. They just want it to be thrown away and that’s why I didn’t like the hot cocoa drink in my childhood, not to mention the milk. However, I used to drink milk more often than the cocoa. Now, I understand that drinking either of them was a good idea and I needed to drink them in order my bones to be healthy and, well, it was actually good for my overall health. So, if you have kids of your own or kids around you, just make sure that they drink milk or this cocoa made with milk and if they don’t want to drink milk, just try to be imaginable and get some recipe or make something up to have them drink some milk!

Cocoa drink without sugar (or less sugar)

Well, regarding to this cocoa drink, I wanted to have some cocoa drink, but I didn’t really want it to have sugar because sugar is not good; so that I decided to surf the net and search for those recipes of cocoa drink which wouldn’t have sugar in them, however, after some searching, I gave up and decided to make the recipe on my own. I mean, I knew that it only needed cocoa powder and water and that was it and that I could have any other ingredient added: I could add whatever I wanted, including some vanilla or cinnamon or sugar or whatsoever. I didn’t even want my cocoa drink to have milk in it, so that I changed milk with just water and decided to have this simple plain cocoa drink with just water. However, then some things changed (but not so much), that now I will tell you about this recipe of my own and then you can decide whether you would like to drink this kind of cocoa drink or not. Well, you should know that it was meant to be cold cocoa drink, however, you can just heat it up or mix it with some hot water, it all comes out good. Or at least I liked it and it was just like what I wanted it to be.

Ingredients:

• 3 tablespoons dark cocoa powder
• 3 tablespoons red cocoa powder
• 1 tablespoon Tiramisu powder
• 2 envelopes vanilla
• 1 tablespoon Nutella chocolate paste
• 500 ml water
• 1 tablespoon heavy cream

Preparation process

So, as I’ve already mentioned above, I just wanted this plain cocoa drink, however, some ingredients popped up and I just used them in my cocoa drink, too. And trust me, this Nutella chocolate paste looked really good in my cocoa drink. It gave a little taste of hazelnut to this cocoa drink which I love very much.

I put those cocoa and Tiramisu powders and vanilla into a saucepan and mixed them and then I added 100 ml water to them and put the saucepan on a gas on a high heat so that the water would boil. After a minute or so the water boiled and I was stirring for some time; after that, I added the remaining water to the saucepan. Then, I realized that I could have some Nutella chocolate paste added to the cocoa drink and it would make it even more delicious and a little bit sweet, so that the cocoa drink wouldn’t be very spicy with cocoa powders and I added this 1 tablespoon of Nutella chocolate paste and stirred it well. It had this amazing smell of cocoa and I just loved it and everyone around in the room just said that it smelled great... I also added this 1 tablespoon of heavy cream, because I had some and I didn’t really know what to do with it. It was a leftover from Tiramisu, which my sister prepared the other day. She just loves this Tiramisu dessert and it’s been the third time that she has prepared ir and people just love this dish prepared by her. Well, I waited some time for the mixture to boil with occasionally stirring and when it boiled I just turned the gas off and that was it. So my cocoa drink was all done and I could either drink it hot or put it in a fridge and have it get cold and drink it like that. In both ways, it would be good, because I tasted it and though it was a little bit spicy and less sweet, it still tasted good.

So, as I wanted to have this cocoa drink as a cold cocoa drink and drink it whenever I felt thirsty or felt like, I poured some of it and then added some water to it in order to make it like a refreshing drink. It was just what I wanted, so that it all came out good and I was pretty pleased with it. Drinking water is an essential thing to do, however, there are some occasions when you just don’t want to drink all that water, or drinking it doesn’t get you kill your thirst, so that you need to drink something else and that’s when people drink all those juices and stuff like that and kill their thirst. My cocoa drink was meant to be something like that and I think it served its purpose, because drinking it doesn’t get you bloating and kills your thirst and has an amazing taste. I just really liked it, if you want to know the truth.

Hot cacao in a cold way

You know that they used to prepare simple cocoa drink back in my childhood, I mean, my mother used to prepare it usually and it was pretty delicious, however, it was a hot cocoa drink, as you might have guessed. Well, then I thought about it and I drank it when it was cold. I mean that it was kept in the refrigerator and when I took it out once, I just realized that I could drink it like that (the cold one), and I was wondering how the taste would be like, so I just drank it and it was really awesome and it tasted much of a cocoa, than the hot one. Maybe it was just my imagination, but the thing was, that it was pretty great when it was cold, too, so I decided to drink it cold. And, well, it is really a great drink in the summer. When it’s all hot outside and around and you just want to drink something cold, you can just prepare this cocoa drink and get it cold in the refrigerator and then drink it. Besides, you can also put some ice cubes in the drink and make it fancier and even add some whipping cream on top and things like that. I like this taste of hazelnut, so you can even have a hazelnut essence or powder and add it to your drink, or you can even add some ice cream to it, it’s all up to your imagination and the imagination has no limits. You can think of as many things as you like and be spontaneous. You can just prepare some fancy and delicious drink with this cocoa one if you don’t really think that just this cocoa drink is enough for you!

The thing is that it’s prepared in a very simple way and you don’t really need to put much effort in it and that’s pretty awesome, because you just have to add these two ingredients to the milk and that’s it. You should have the milk boiled in a saucepan and then you should have some cocoa powder and sugar and maybe some vanilla mixed together in a bowl, and when the milk boils, you can add some milk to the bowl of this dry mixture and whisk them so that it all will get dissolved into the milk and the mixture will be mixed together well. Then you can pour that mixture into that remaining milk while whisking it and after that, you should just bring the mixture to boil with constantly stirring and that would be all. When the mixture boils, you can add some more vanilla, although it’s not really necessary. But vanilla has a good taste and many people love its aroma. Well, at least, I know that I love it and that there are vanillas sold in the supermarkets in those envelopes and most of them are with sugar. However, there are also vanillas which are sugar-free and that there is only vanilla in them, there are some vanillas with orange or lemon too, which are really great. I used vanilla orange in my cream fillings and they tasted pretty good, I must say. Those vanillas with sugar cost 10 or 15 tetris each, the only vanilla costs more than that, while if you want to buy vanilla in crystal form, it costs 35 tetris and the vanillas with orange or lemon cost 20 tetris for 7 grams each, so that the prices are reasonable. I just buy any of them whenever I’m in the supermarket, because I don’t really know when I will need it. So, I can just have them at home and use them whenever I need to prepare some cakes or cream fillings or whatsoever.

Anyways, if you want to have some good cacao drink in a cold way, just remember, that you can always prepare this hot cacao drink with milk and sugar and cocoa powder and some vanilla and then put it into the refrigerator to get it cold and have it that way. It’s a really great drink that everyone should try. And if you don’t like milk and you can’t stand it, you can always substitute it with soya milk or just water, and it still will be great in taste.

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