Make Iced Mocha From Home! A Recipe

Fuel for every writer

I love me Starbucks, Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, Wanda's drive thru Coffee shop, little out of the way niche coffee shops that have style, ambiance, or the will to stand-up right with duct tape, but there are times when I just have to sit here and write. 

That's when I decided that it was time to make my own! I Google'd and found the ultimate secret ingredient! It makes the mocha and it's prolly already in your house!

Please take note that "Stephie sized" means that I took a spoon, collected the ingredient, and dumped it in. A spoon could be a heaping full or tipping the bag and shoving ingredient with two strokes of said spoon. You may need to experiment for taste.

Here it is:
 
Iced Mocha:

All The Ingredients you'll need

3 Stephie sized tablespoons Brown Sugar
2 Stephie sized tablespoons GHIRARDELLI Chocolate (unsweetened cocoa)
4 cups Coffee
1 Stephie sized splash Vanilla extract (Almond extract does well too) 
1 cup Stephie sized Milk
12 Stephie sized Ice Cubes

The Secret Of Coffee

The true secret of coffee is temperature.  

Scald the beans and you have crappy coffee.  This applies to tea as well. 

Now, my dad wants his coffee to remove the layer of morning mouth, which is way too hot.  He likes crappy coffee.  Or he might not care what it tastes like.  Just as long as the shoe-bottom taste of his mouth is gone.  Which has it's own merit.  Because crappy coffee breath might be better than breath that wrinkles plutonium.  Wow.  Mom--I'm so sorry. 

 

There is also a time as to when to drink coffee.  Unless it's iced, drink it at the perfect temperature for you and don't dally.  

I've also found that hard water/soft water makes a difference. I think of hard water as "mineral water".  Not really the same as mineral water -- those minerals are not there intentionally I don't think, but hard water makes coffee taste bitter.  Soft water tends to make coffee taste sweet.  

And then there are the fru-fru coffee's we drink to lessen the bitter taste.  Whatever your prefrence DON'T BURN YOUR BEANS!