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Bus Fare Recipes

Save Your Bucks for Guitar Strings Ice Blended Mocha
Makes 2 12-oz. servings

I developed this recipe after consuming four ice blended mochas at Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf in one week during the recent California heat wave. Since I rarely drink alone, the bill was over $34.00. (That would be over $137.00 a month had the trend continued...Over $7000 a year for the truly addicted.) This recipe is a lot less expensive, with the added benefit of having far fewer calories.

  • 1 cup milk, very cold, (1 8-oz. carton, procured from Catering)
     

  • 2-second shot Chocolate Syrup (I like Fox's U-Bet Chocolate Syrup*) Turn the bottle upside down and squeeze for a 2-second count: "one Mississippi, two Mississippi..."
     

  • 1/3 cup General Foods International Coffee mix (For best results, half of it should be the Cafe Francais flavor, and the rest can be whatever flavor you like. My favorite blend: fill a 1/3 cup measure halfway with Cafe Francais, then add Suisse Mocha and Vanilla Nut in equal parts to fill the rest of the 1/3 cup measure. Travel with 'em or put 'em on your rider--it's a lot easier to get than a cappuccino maker!)
     

  • 1 cup ice, procured from Catering

Pour milk into blender container; add chocolate syrup and the dry International Coffee mix. Blend on high to combine. With the blender running, drop in ice through the hole in the top of the blender container, blending just 'til ice is incorporated. Pour into chilled glasses and serve with a straw. Makes 2 12-oz iced mochas. Calorie count per serving: made with skim milk, approx. 276 calories; made with 1% milk approximately 295 calories; made with 2% milk, approximately 310 calories. (Starbucks ice blended mocha calorie count: 420 to 520 calories for a Grande)

*Fox's U-Bet chocolate syrup is used by many soda fountains and is available online, or at Gelson's supermarkets in Los Angeles. We covered it a while back in Cool Stuff.

Tip: If you don't travel with a set of measuring cups in the bus galley, make a Starving Musician Measuring Cup: Procure the 8 oz carton of milk from Catering, and set it on a level surface. Using a Sharpie, draw a horizontal line where the milk stops at the top. That's your one cup measure. Now divide the 1 cup into horizontal thirds: the middle line is 2/3 cup measure (which you don't need for this recipe), and the bottom measurement is a 1/3 cup measure (which you do need). Pour the milk into the blender, open both sides of the top of the carton all the way, and you have a disposable square measuring cup. A disposable blender, I can't help you with...

Creative Options: Vary the mocha flavor by changing one of the General Foods International Coffee. I sometimes substitute the Vanilla Nut in my blend for Hazelnut.


Recipes ©2006 Randi Reed

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