As we all know from my liquor recipes, I am not the person who prefers to get their calories from a drink. I would rather toss back a medium McDonald’s fries than one of those tiny mocha things at Starbucks. After going through about a million boxes of the Nestle’s diet hot chocolate, I started to realize that at like 5 bucks a pop, it was costing way too much. My Google adventures for a diet hot chocolate recipe failed, so I went to my mother’s pantry when I was home for a doctor’s appointment. What did I find? Ghirardelli Unsweetened Cocoa. So what did I do? Pour it into hot water. It tasted like crap. Honest to God, it tasted so bitter and terrible I wanted to smack myself upside the head for not realizing that unsweetened cocoa with 15 calories a tablespoon would be so bitter. I threw in a little fat free half and half along with some Splenda and I was pleasantly surprised with the outcome. The quality of the cocoa really matters in this one, so if you go and buy America’s Choice, I will be ashamed.
You really want to make me sad? Look at this face. You DO NOT want this face. Those eyes have melted one too many IRON fathers, bosses, and suitors to fail now!
Ingredients:
- 1 tablespoon fat free half and half (10 calories for mine.)
- 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder (I use Ghirardelli.)
- 6 ounces boiling water
- 2 Splenda
Mix the above ingredients, stirring vigorously, and enjoy! This hot chocolate is only 25 calories, and tastes much better than the store bought, diet stuff! Plus, if you add too much water by mistake, it’s really easy to add just a teaspoon more of the cocoa powder for only 5 more calories.
I suck at pictures, and I was thirsty. I took this on my blackberry like the corporate tool that I am. Don’t worry, I hate me too.
Unsweetened chocolate usually doesn’t go over well until you sweeten it… might be a good idea with my overly-sweet Ghirardelli “choclate and cocoa” tin that I use to make hot chocolate there.
This also reminds me of my brother’s story about the time he accidentially made a flourless chocolate cake with unsweetend chocolate… but I’ll leave that story to him.