Homemade Chocolate Syrup

Recipe and Photo Courtesy: Small Notebook











I stumbled across this recipe and thought, "Sure I'll try that one day". Well, 3 days later, I was craving chocolate milk, and guess what, no Hershey's in the fridge. Well, 10 minutes later, I got my chocolate milk and oh my goodness! Delish!

INGREDIENTS
½ cup cocoa powder
1 cup water
2 cups sugar
⅛ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon vanilla

DIRECTIONS
Mix the cocoa and the water in a saucepan. Heat and stir to dissolve the cocoa. Add the sugar, and stir to dissolve. Boil for 3 minutes over medium heat. Add the salt and the vanilla. Let cool. Pour into a sterile glass jar, and store in the refrigerator. Keeps for several months. Yields two cups.

Best Hot Chocolate - Single Serving

Recipe courtesy Hershey

INGREDIENTS

2 Tbsp Sugar
2-3 tsp Hershey's Cocoa
Dash Salt
1 cup Milk
1/4 tsp Vanilla extract (optional)

DIRECTIONS
Mix sugar, cocoa and salt in a mug.

Heat milk in the microwave on HIGH for 1-1/2 minutes, or until hot.

Gradually add milk to the cocoa mixture in the mug and stir well. Stir in vanilla, if desired.

Pomegranate Orange Juice

Courtesy MarthaStewart.com

INGREDIENTS
1 cup pomegranate juice
5 cups freshly squeezed orange juice

DIRECTIONS
Combine to two juices. Simple as that.

(Note: You can use store bought orange juice if you choose.)

Apple Orchard Punch

Courtesy AllRecipes.com

INGREDIENTS
1 (32 fluid ounce) bottle apple juice, chilled
1 (12 fluid ounce) can frozen cranberry juice concentrate
1 cup orange juice
1 1/2 liters ginger ale
1 apple

DIRECTIONS
In a large punch bowl, combine apple juice, cranberry juice concentrate and orange juice. Stir until dissolved, then slowly pour in the ginger ale.

Thinly slice the apple vertically, forming whole apple slices. Float apple slices on top of punch.

(Note: This punch has a very pink color, perfect for a bridal or girl baby shower. Kendra is making it witlh blueberry juice, rather than cranberry concentrate, for a boy baby shower. Just a thought.)