Hot Cocoa & Mocha Recipe

Welcome to my blog. Thank you for stopping by I am honored! I hope you will come by again to visit. My morning hot Mocha (homemade recipe below) was the inspiration for this card." 

Top 3 at Pause, Dream, Enjoy

RECIPE
Kraft cardstock for the card mat
Pre-made white card size A2 - Joann's Essentials
Color Bok - black & white card stock
Sledding Embossing folder - Cuttlebug
Cricut Cartridge - Sesame Street Seasons - page 67 (mug cut at 4" in my Cricut using my Gypsy)
I made the white marshmallows out of white cardstock (for a Mocha card- leave off the marshmallows - LOL)
Action Wobble
CHALLENGES
Pause, Dream, Enjoy - Food and/or Beverage
Action Wobble - Food (I am hoping my marshmallows count as food, if not, that is OK - the card was fun to make)
Cupcake Craft Challenge -get Krafty
Paper Take Weekly - anything goes
Just Keep on Creating - Christmas - ends December 1
My Homemade Hot Mocha Recipe
Hot coffee of your choice (regular or decaf) - zero calories
Blue Diamond Almond Milk Vanilla or Unsweetened (40 calories a cup)
Hershey's Cocoa - 1 Tablespoon (10 calories)
Stevia in the Raw (to tastes - I use about 3 teaspoons) - zero calories

DIRECTIONS:
On the stove-top pour in a saucepan one cup of milk and add 1 Tablespoon of Hershey's Cocoa (or other low calorie brand cocoa) - turn on stove to medium heat
Stir to dissolve cocoa and heat until steamed
Remove sauce pan from stove and add one cup of hot coffee
Add Stevia  - stir

Pour mixture into a 2 cup thermos - add more coffee to fill thermos - if there is room in the thermos
Take the thermos and your favorite empty coffee mug to your craft~room - pour a cup of delicious homemade mocha into your favorite coffee mug and enjoy while crafting.
Calorie count for 2 cups (or contents of thermos) = 50 calories

For Hot Cocoa - do not add coffee - add marshmallows

Optional, but additional calorie - add whipped cream or Redi-Whip and shaved chocolate from a 85-90% Chocolate bar on top of whipped cream as an extra treat. Don't forget to count those calories.  I have also used Chocolate liquid Stevia drops as well- experiment and see what works best for your.

This recipe is as good or better than the high priced Cafe' Mocha's on the market.  At least, my Daughter-in-Law Michelle and I think so.

Hint: I make at least one quart of Mocha mix (without adding the Stevia) on the stove - pour it in a quart glass canning jar, let cool, store in the refrigerator, then use this mixture throughout the week by re-heating and add my hot coffee and Stevia. My Mocha is basically half hot cocoa and half coffee with Stevia.