Not So Nestle Nesquik

As I said in my last post, I have been having a glass of chocolate milk every morning. I had been using this syrup because it didn't have any HFCS.




After we got about halfway through the bottle, Travis mentioned making our own chocolate syrup and as soon as we ran out I was up to the challenge. I made this Alton Brown recipe. It was SO easy. TOO easy. They didn't have Dutch Process Cocoa at the Walmarts (shocking!) so I followed a reviewers advice to add a tablespoon of butter when adding the cocoa. Chemically it doesn't make any sense to me, but it worked just fine and tastes incredible! Another reviewer says it tastes like chocolate pudding, and they were right!

I put mine in the leftover Nestle bottle, but if you don't have one lying around you can get one of these bad boys at Walmart for $.99, definitely worth the investment to have homemade chocolate syrup on the ready.



The only thing is, with the originally recipe you are not supposed to keep it in the fridge but since I added butter I feel like it should be kept cold. This makes the syrup a little thicker than it normally would be and a little more difficult to make my morning treat.