I’ve tried melting actual dark chocolate into the drink, which just turns to goop and doesn’t really bring out that flavour.
It would also be nice to make a hazelnut flavoured coffee if there is some way to do that.
I’ve tried those instant coffee coffee sachets which are supposedly one flavour or the other, to me they’re just bland.
Any ideas?
Mix some cocoa in with the ground coffee.
Some of the flavored creamers are pretty good. You can also buy the syrups they use as coffee shops, if you prefer your coffee black. They will add sweetness, though.
At a cake/candy supply store they’ll have flavor oils for candy making. You can also try flavor extracts for baking, available in the grocery story. They won’t impart much flavor without a little sugar and fat to spread it around your mouth, though.
If you mean putting in cocoa with the coffee grounds, that doesn’t work at all.
I use this: http://www.hersheys.com/pure-products/hersheys-cocoa/special-dark.aspx
Put some in the bottom of the mug along with a little sugar and pour hot coffee over it (I hand drip). Makes a really great dark chocolate mocha.
Maybe I’m missing something, but have you tried just plain flavored coffee? Ground coffee beans that you brew, not instant or pre-sweetened. Like this or these. These aren’t sweet, just regular brewed coffee with flavor added, so you would still have to add syrup/sugar/flavored creamer if you wanted sweetness or creaminess.
I’ve brewed Gevalia Mocha as a special treat and love it.
http://www.gevalia.com/mocha/C28,default,pd.html?start=9&cgid=flavorCollection
I have the Gevalia Chocolate Mocha too…it’s very nice. Worth a try and you don’t have to mix anything!
I don’t know, but I’d try cocoa – the problem with actual chocolate is that it has a bunch of fat which won’t mix into the water very well.
Mix the cocoa right into the coffee (or, make strong coffee, whisk a tablespoon or two of cocoa per cup of coffee into a little hot water until it’s dissolved, and then combine with the strong coffee. Put sugar in with the cocoa if you want)
Thanks for all the idea’s and suggestions.
After much shopping and experimenting, the absolute winner is:
Nestle Cocoa. A very fine product I must say, one that I was not aware before this thread, it makes a fantastically dark chocolatey coffee.
Other stuff I tried:
Flavoured coffee, ground and instant; way too mild.
Coffee syrups; nice, pricey, but still too mild.
So thank you straighdopers and nestle. I can now make a coffee so dark it would melt even Batman’s cold heart.
If you have a Keurig type coffee maker and a large mug you can run a coffee packet through and then a hot cocoa packet through and drink. It worked for me when I tried it as an experiment (and by experiment I mean I accidentally hit the wrong size on the screen and ended up with a half filled mug so I decided to improvise and see how it tasted).
A former (and maybe future) co-worker of mine did the coffee/hot chocolate thing in the work Keurig every day. He spoke very highly of the mix.
-D/a
It never occurred to you to buy a bottle of Hershey’s Special Dark chocolate SYRUP and, you know, squirt some in? No need for this dry cocoa powder nonsense. They make liquid dark chocolate for exactly this purpose.