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Chocolate Syrup for Mokas

  • 20-04-2008 9:37pm
    #1
    jimogr
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    Anyone have any recommendations on what chocolate syrup to use for making a good Mocha?

    This looks good:
    http://www.chocolateabyss.com/products/darkMocha.html

    But cannot find where to buy it, hasbean.co.uk has their chocolate powder but not their Mocha syrup.


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  • #2
    rockbeer
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    The first two ingredients on the one you link to are Glucose-fructose syrup & sugar. That puts me off straight away. And despite their claims about 'higher cocoa content', the cocoa content is in fact only 15% - about half what you'd find in the cheapest, poorest quality milk chocolate. You need a much higher chocolate to sweetener ratio than that to make a good mocha. And don't be taken in by this 'melts easily into espresso' marketing-speak. Chocolate always melts easily when heat is applied.

    I wouldn't use a syrup at all, good quality dark chocolate (I'd use 70%) & pure cocoa powder ftw. Vanilla cane sugar adjusted to taste. Dissolve into hot milk, whisk it up and add to espresso. Or if you've an espresso machine just put everything into a jug, steam it up with your wand and give it a stir before pouring over the espresso. Fantastic, easy and all-natural.


  • #3
    jimogr
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    rockbeer wrote: »
    I wouldn't use a syrup at all, good quality dark chocolate (I'd use 70%) & pure cocoa powder ftw. Vanilla cane sugar adjusted to taste. Dissolve into hot milk, whisk it up and add to espresso. Or if you've an espresso machine just put everything into a jug, steam it up with your wand and give it a stir before pouring over the espresso. Fantastic, easy and all-natural.

    Sounds good - what brand cocoa powder do you use?


  • #4
    rockbeer
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    I usually get the Fair Trade cocoa they sell in the Oxfam shop nr. Stephens Green.


  • #5
    JIZZLORD
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    speaking of syrups and the like are they widely available ofline and not in dublin?


  • #6
    jimogr
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    Rockbeer, I just tried it out, nicer than any Mocha I've had in a coffee shop :)


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  • #7
    jimogr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 624 ✭✭✭jimogr


    JIZZLORD wrote: »
    speaking of syrups and the like are they widely available ofline and not in dublin?

    The flavoured ones? Some coffee shops sell them, starbucks for one, but wouldn't recommend starbucks syrups.


  • #8
    Sparks
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    I wouldn't recommend starbucks anything :D


  • #9
    JIZZLORD
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,484 ✭✭✭JIZZLORD


    i've tried a few places in galway this evening looking for them. no luck yet, but i'll try more tomorrow. also, galway has no starbucks, which is a good thing but there are rumors of one going into a building on shop street that is less than 100 metres from the only roasters in the west. if starbucks comes, my java may be lost in time :(


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