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SWEET SHIVERS: Recipes for Cold & Refreshing Chocolate Drinks for Summer

Norman Love

Norman Love

Move over hot cocoa – a new wave of drinkable, chocolately goodness is coming through. While maybe not the first ingredient that comes to mind when concocting summer sips, chilled chocolate-infused drinks are this season’s must-try treat. Sweeten your summer with these refreshing recipes, dreamt-up, taste tested (note: very much approved) and served to you by Love:

Iced Dark Chocolate and Coconut Milk

Like peanut butter and jelly or wine and cheese, some things just taste better together. Enjoy a hint of the tropics with this decadent drink.

Ingredients:

  • 4 cups coconut milk (or cream for thicker result)
  • ½ cup cane sugar or agave nectar
  • ¾ cup cocoa power
  • 4 oz. 75% dark chocolate (the lower the percentage, the sweeter the result)
  • Coconut milk ice cubes for serving

Directions:

  1. Heat coconut milk and sugar until steaming, whisk in cocoa powder and pour over dark chocolate in a bowl
  2. Stir mixture until fully melted and pour through strainer into pitcher; store in refrigerator to cool
  3. Serve over coconut milk ice cubes

Tropical White Chocolate Smoothie

Grab your suit and hit the pool with this spa-like smoothie for a much-deserved mental vacation.

Ingredients:

  • 5 oz. white chocolate
  • 2.5 cups milk (any kind)
  • 1 tbs. vanilla paste or 1 scraped vanilla bean
  • 12 oz. frozen pineapple juice or 1.5 cups pineapple chunks
  • 12 oz. frozen orange juice
  • ½ cup ice (can be frozen fruit juice or milk cubes)

Directions:

  1. Heat milk with vanilla bean or paste to scald and pour over white chocolate; stir until melted through
  2. Cool white chocolate mixture in refrigerator
  3. Place white chocolate mixture, fruit/frozen juice and ice in blender and blend until desired consistency
  4. Serve immediately
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Last modified: July 1, 2015