Chocolate Mint Cooler
Created by TwisSis on February 24, 2015
- Servings: 4
- Prep Time: 5m
- Cook Time: 5m
- Recipe #17550
Ingredients
- 1 cup hot chocolate powder
- 1 2/3 cups milk
- 2/3 cup yogurt (plain)
- 1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract
- 4 scoops ice cream (chocolate)
How to Make
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Step 1: Put hot chocolate powder in a small pan & stir in 1/2 cup milk. Heat gently (stirring) until almost boiling. Remove pan from heat.
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Step 2: Put hot chocolate milk in heatproof bowl or large pitcher & whisk in the remaining milk.
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Step 3: Add the yoghurt plus peppermint extract & whisk again.
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Step 4: Pour the mixture into 4 tall glasses, filling them no more than 3/4 full. Top each drink w/a scoop of ice cream. Garnish w/fresh mint leaves if you want fancy w/color.
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Step 5: VARIATIONS: For a "Chocolate Vanilla Cooler", use light cream instead of yoghurt + 1 tsp vanilla extract instead of peppermint extract -- or -- For "Mocha Cooler", dissolve the chocolate in 1/2 cup strong black coffee & reduce milk to 1 1/4 cups. Use cream instead of yoghurt & leave out the extract.
Nutritional Facts
- Serving Size: 1 (232.2 g)
- Calories 318.7
- Total Fat - 12.1 g
- Saturated Fat - 6.9 g
- Cholesterol - 40.3 mg
- Sodium - 291.4 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 44.1 g
- Dietary Fiber - 1.5 g
- Sugars - 33.4 g
- Protein - 8.1 g
- Calcium - 340.3 mg
- Iron - 3.9 mg
- Vitamin C - 30.8 mg
- Thiamin - 0.7 mg