Today I’m joining lifeasmom for frugal friday. I’m stocked on hot coco mix. Problem: I live in Houston and it is only hot coco drinking weather for a brief time. This summer I’ve been deliberately uses up this mix with cold treats.
One is chocolate pudding. In my saucepan, I mix 1 cup hot coco mix, 3/4 cup morning moo powdered milk, 1/4 cup corn starch and one tablespoon unsweetened powdered coco. Then add in 2 cups of water. Constantly stir. Help any clumps that don’t dissolve by smashing on the side of you pan. Add 1 teaspoon vanilla. Pour into 4 small bowls and cover with plastic wrap. Let cool in fridge. You’ll get the choc blanket on top if you leave air between the plastic and pudding. I like the choc blanket. My mom suggested adding an egg when I add in the cold water. I will try that next time.
Chocolate Pie: Pour pudding (with egg option) into slightly cooked pie shell and bake at 325 for 15 minutes. For meringue topping, beat 4 egg whites and a teaspoon of cream of tarter. Once they start getting fluffy, add a tablespoon of sugar if you like yours sweet. Pull pie out of oven and top with egg mixture. Continue cooking til top looks finished… white peaks will turn light brown. Let cool and store in your fridge. If you don’t like meringue, you can top with whip cream after pie cools.
Chocolate Milk: I no longer purchase chocolate milk. I had a coupon and tried the promised land milk a couple of months ago. It was great, but even better was the small glass milk bottle which I saved. To make my choc milk I fill this jar 1/2 full with ice. Then I mix about 3/4 cup of hot coco mix with hot hot water and let dissolve. When it is cool, but still warm I pour over the ice and shake. I taste and if it is too strong I add water. My hot coco mix has powdered milk as a main ingredient, but if it didn’t I’d also add powdered milk with the coco mix and hot water.
Frozen Pudding Sticks: This is on my list to try once I have a little more freezer space. I’m going to pour the choc milk into my Popsicle tray and make fudge sticks.
I also want to figure out how to make Chocolate Truffles with hot coco mix, so please let me know if you have a recipe I could use. Or any other uses for hot coco mix would be helpful. Thanks.
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