Chocolate Ice Cubes In Vanilla Milk Or Cocktails

TIP OF THE DAY: Chocolate Ice Cubes In Vanilla Milk Or Cocktails

June 17, 2017 at 8:56 am · Filed under Beverages, Chocolate, Cocktails & Spirits, Entertaining, Food Fun, Recipes, Tip Of The Day, Valentine's Day

Today’s tip might be a natural for Valentine’s Day, but we like it even more for the cold drinks of summer.

These chocolate ice cubes are the brainchild of the Parisian chocolatier Jean-Paul Hévin.

His Summer Chocolate Ice Cubes are simply a chocolate ice cream recipe that gets poured into ice cube trays instead of an ice cream churn. Why didn’t we think of this years ago?

While M. Hévin’s recipe is for a family-friendly, gourmet chocolate milk drink, you can also use the chocolate ice cubes in cocktails or with liqueurs.

They keep your drinks cold, as they add chocolate flavor by slowly melting. Use them:

In regular drinks: Iced coffee, an egg cream, an ice cream soda, or a simple glass of…regular or chocolate milk.

In cocktails: Black Russian/White Russian, Chocolate Martini, Coffee Martini, Grasshopper, etc.

With liqueurs: Add to a rocks glass of chocolate, coffee or Irish cream liqueur.

RECIPE: CHOCOLATE ICE CUBES & VANILLA MILK

The recipe makes enough for one ice cube tray: cubes for 6 rocks glasses or 4 highball glasses. While it goes without saying, we’ll say it: Make the ice cubes 6 hours before you plan to use them, or the night before.

The vanilla milk also needs to chill for several hours. You can make the entire recipe the night before.

You can also enhance the flavor with chocolate-friendly seasonings: cayenne pepper, cinnamon, instant coffee, nutmeg, etc.

Add a teaspoon of spice to the ice cream mix.

Mix the spice with coarse/decorating/sanding/sparkling sugar for a sugar rim.

Hévin’s recipe starts with his homemade ice cream, which is poured into ice cube trays instead of churned into ice cream.

We used Lactaid milk so that all of our crowd, including the lactose sensitive, could have them. Lactose-free milk is virtually like regular milk, but the lactose (milk sugar) that is hard for some people to digest has been de-activated. All the Lactaid products (cottage cheese, ice cream, holiday egg nog) are delish!

Ingredients For The Chocolate Ice Cream

6.8 ounces/200ml milk

3.5 tablespoons/50ml water

1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder

1 teaspoon sugar

Optional: 1 cup of instant coffee (prepared, not granules)

70g of 66% cacao dark chocolate

For The Vanilla Milk

2.5 cups/600ml whole milk

1/4 cup/60g sugar

1 vanilla bean

Optional

Liqueur of choice

Straws for tall glasses

Sugar, spiced sugar or cocoa mix rim (use sparkling sugar/decorating sugar

Whipped cream

Preparation

1. CHOP the chocolate finely and place it in a heat-resistant bowl.

2. COMBINE the milk and water in a saucepan. Add the sugar, cocoa, and coffee and mix thoroughly to avoid lumps. Bring to a boil over medium heat. Then…

3. REMOVE from the heat and pour over the chocolate. Let it melt for 5 minutes; then gently mix with a wooden spoon until it is smooth and creamy. Allow to cool, pour into an ice cube tray and freeze.

4. MAKE the vanilla milk. Pour the milk into a large saucepan, add the sugar, and mix to dissolve.

5. SCRAPE the vanilla bean and add the beans and pod to the pan. Bring to a boil over medium heat and remove from heat. Allow to cool; then refrigerate for several hours or overnight.

6. TO SERVE: Place the chocolate ice cubes in the glasses (depending on the size of the glasses 3 to 4 ice cubes) then pour over the milk to the cold vanilla.

This recipe by Jean-Paul Hévin appeared in the Elle à Table and appeared on Nordljus.com. We can across it on Sandra Kavital | Blogspot. Thanks also to Keiko of Nordljus.

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