Chocolate Mint Cooler

Total Time: 10 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 5 mins

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup hot chocolate powder
• 1 2/3 cups milk
• 2/3 cup plain yogurt
• 1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract
• 4 scoops chocolate ice cream

Recipe

• 1 put hot chocolate powder in a sml pan & stir in 1/2 cup milk. heat gently (stirring) till almost boiling. remove pan from heat.
• 2 put hot chocolate milk in heatproof bowl or lrg pitcher & whisk in the remaining milk.
• 3 add the yoghurt & peppermint extract & whisk again.
• 4 pour the mixture into 4 tall glasses, filling them no more than 3/4 full. top ea drink w/a scoop of ice cream. garnish w/fresh mint leaves to get fancy. yum!
• 5 variations: for "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.