You know how I like my obscure food holidays (especially when chocolate is involved), and with tomorrow being National Frappe Day, I decided to do some digging and find a chocolate frappe recipe!

A frappe is a Greek beverage (in fact, it’s been dubbed the national coffee of Greece), and is traditionally made with spray-dried instant coffee and foam. There are many variations, not the last of which involves chocolate for a rich mocha.
I’ve never made a frappe before and didn’t realize how easy they were to put together. You can use a mix (like this one from Ghirardelli) or gather …read more

I really love this idea — instead of having just a plain cup of coffee in the morning, get in some protein with it and make a healthy mocha smoothie. I also really like that it’s a cold drink, since it’s getting toasty here in the southwest and a hot cup of coffee in the morning isn’t as appealing as it is in the cooler months.
Making the mocha smoothie from the video above is pretty easy. All you need is ice, coffee, chocolate whey protein powder, milk, and yogurt. I think the biggest obstacle for me would be running the …read more

Have you tried the new Premium M&M’s? M&M’s/Mars released five new flavors earlier this summer: Chocolate Almond, Mocha, Triple Chocolate, Raspberry Almond, and Mint Chocolate.
I picked up the Mocha and Triple Chocolate at the grocery store last week. At about $3 a pop for 6 oz I couldn’t afford to get all of them!
The packaging is different than the usual bags – these are in slim recloseable boxes and the M&M’s are in a resealable plastic package inside. The candy itself is a little bit larger than a regular M&M (smaller than a peanut M&M, though) and has …read more

Looks like a nice glass of chocolate milk, right? Actually, it’s even better (in my opinion!).
A couple of years ago I tried to duplicate a very popular iced mocha coffee beverage from a very popular coffee chain. The version I like the best is sold in cute little 9 oz bottles at the grocery store that cost an arm and a leg. I looked it up online and had a slim little collection of recipes in my folder dedicated to this one thing. Anyway, it failed miserably. I even bought an espresso maker (albeit a cheapy one) to no …read more