Iced Moka

Okay, Meag asked for this for her birthday breakfast and it required a couple of days preparation. Her birthday was on Thursday so on Tuesday I started with phase 1: Chocolate sauce.

1 1/4 c water
1 1/4 c sugar
3/4 c VE cocoa
Mix it all together in a saucepan and bring to a boil for 3 minutes. Let it cool and keep it in the refrigerator until you want to use it. It's a little on the bittersweet side as the VE cocoa is pulling pretty strong in that direction.

Phase 2 went quickly on Wednesday night when I made some espresso and filled my ice cube tray. Coffee ice cubes were recommended and, when you think about it, it makes sense for a chilled coffee drink because meltwater makes iced coffee taste like suck. Coffee ice cubes help to maintain the flavour for the remainder of the drink. Having said that, coffee ice cubes are a complete pain in the butt. I also brewed another batch of coffee and put it the fridge overnight to chill.

The final phase had to wait until Meag woke up on Thursday.

2 c chilled coffee (I used espresso)
2 c milk
6 T chocolate sauce
12 coffee ice cubes
2 T sugar (this was my addition)
Throw it all in a blender and let'er rip.

Problem #1 (I am all about the numbered lists here): 12 ice cubes do not make nearly enough chopped ice for 4 cups of liquid so I ended up having to add a bunch of plain ice cubes to get the texture that I was looking for anyway (think Ice Capp)

Problem #2: My volume estimation abilities continue to falter when I learned that 4 cups of liquid and (even) 12 ice cubes will test the capacity of my food processor (my blender having bravely given its life during the Smoothie Frenzy of '07). It took about 10 seconds to start having major leakage issues all over the tops of my slippers.

Really tasty though and there's no reason that I couldn't cut the recipe in half and knock it out in the morning. I've still got a lot of that chocolate sauce left over too, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.