Iced Mexican Chocolate Recipes

ICED MEXICAN CHOCOLATE EXPRESS

Steps:

• Stir chocolate and chocolate syrup into hot coffee until melted.
• Transfer to a blender, add half and half and ice cubes, and blend at high speed for 2 to 3 minutes. Serve immediately in a tall, cold glass.

MEXICAN SP(ICED) CHOCOLATE SORBET

Steps:

• Combine the sugar and cocoa in a saucepan to get rid of lumps. Stir in 2 cups of water or milk and put it over medium-high heat. (Feel free to make part of this coffee if you like ( *whistles innocently*)
• Bring to a simmer and cook for 2 minutes. Take off heat and stir in the chocolate. Stir until it's melted.
• Let the mixture cool, and then refrigerate until cold.
• Pour into ice cream maker and freeze according to manufacturer's directions. The one I used was so easy: pour in, turn on, wait for magic to happen.
• Store in freezer for extra firmness.

ICED MEXICAN CHOCOLATE

Steps:

• Microwave chocolate in large liquid measure at high (100%) 2 minutes or until chocolate is melted; stir in honey. Microcook at HIGH 30 seconds. Slowly stir in milk until well blended. Stir in orange peel and cinnamon. Pour over ice in serving glasses.

MEXICAN CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM

Steps:

• Halve vanilla bean lengthwise and scrape seeds into a 3-quart heavy saucepan. Add chocolate and half-and-half and bring to a boil over moderate heat, whisking. Remove from heat.
• Lightly beat eggs with salt in a bowl, then add hot chocolate mixture in a slow stream, whisking. Transfer custard to cleaned saucepan and cook over moderately low heat, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon, until custard registers 175°F on thermometer, 1 to 5 minutes. Immediately pour through a fine-mesh sieve into a metal bowl. Put bowl in a larger bowl of ice and cold water and cool, stirring occasionally.
• Freeze custard in ice cream maker. Transfer ice cream to an airtight container and freeze until hardened, about 1 hour.

ICE CREAM WITH MEXICAN CHOCOLATE

Steps:

• Put the eggs in a bowl and whisk them with an electric whisk unti they are thick, pale and fluffy.
• Gradually whisk in the sugar.
• Melt the chocolate in a heavy based saucepan over a low heat, then add it to the egg mixture and mix thouroughly.
• Whisk in the cream, then stir in the milk, a little at a time.
• Cool mixture, then chill.
• Pour the mixture into an ice cream maker and churn until thick.
• OR freeze it in a shallow plastic box in the fast freeze section of the freezer for several hours, until ice crystals have begun to form around edges.
• Process to break up the ice crystals, then freeze again.
• To serve, decorate with chocolate curls.

SPICED MEXICAN CHOCOLATE COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. In small bowl, mix flour, cocoa, cinnamon, baking powder, salt and red pepper; set aside.
• In 2-quart saucepan, heat butter and chocolate chips over low heat, stirring occasionally, until melted. Remove from heat; stir in granulated sugar. Pour into large bowl. Beat in eggs with spoon one at a time until blended. Beat in vanilla. Stir in flour mixture until well blended. Cover and refrigerate 30 minutes.
• Shape dough into 36 (1 1/4 -inch) balls. Lightly butter hands if dough is sticky when shaping into balls. Place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets; flatten slightly. Sprinkle about 1/4 teaspoon of Demerara sugar over top of each cookie.
• Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until edges are set. Cool 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheets to cooling rack. Cool completely, at least 20 minutes. Store covered in airtight container.