Recipes

Irish cocoa

Posted by Fiona Beckett (Google+) on March 14 2008 at 09:02

A 'naughty but nice' alternative to an Irish coffee to treat yourself to on St Patrick’s Day!

Makes 1 mug

2 level tsp cocoa powder
4 tbsp Bailey’s or other Irish cream liqueur
1 tbsp Kahlua or other coffee liqueur (optional, but good)
about 200ml semi-skimmed milk

Put the cocoa powder in a mug. Add the Baileys and Kahlua, if using, and whisk with a small hot-chocolate whisk (or stir vigorously, if you haven't got one). Top up with milk and whisk. Microwave for one minute, whisk again then microwave for a further 20-30 seconds until hot. Stir and serve.

* You can obviously make this with hot milk but because of the amount of cold liquid already in the mug it won’t be quite hot enough so I find it easier to make it a microwave.

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