{"id":2584,"date":"2012-03-29T12:31:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T17:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/?p=2584"},"modified":"2012-03-29T12:32:49","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T17:32:49","slug":"2584","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/2584\/","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate Yumminess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve really enjoyed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onegoodthingbyjillee.com\/\">Jillee&#8217;s One Good Thing blog<\/a>.  She&#8217;s got great natural tips for the home and yummy ones, too! Today we (that is me, and my small kitchen helper) tried a recipe for homemade chocolate syrup, and it was a definite hit!  We enjoyed some delicious homemade chocolate milk. <\/p>\n<p><strong>HOMEMADE CHOCOLATE SYRUP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1 1\/2 cups sugar<br \/>\n3\/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder (I use Ghirardelli)<br \/>\n1 cup water<br \/>\ndash of salt<br \/>\n1 teaspoon vanilla<\/p>\n<p>In a small saucepan, add sugar, cocoa, and salt.  Whisk together gently.  Add water.  Bring mixture to a boil, stirring occasionally.  Reduce heat and cook 1 minute.  Remove from heat and add vanilla.  Cool.  Store in the refrigerator. <\/p>\n<p>For delicious chocolate milk, add 2 tablespoons chocolate syrup to 8 oz. of milk.  Heat for hot chocolate.<br \/>\nFor milk shakes, combine 1 cup cold milk, 1\/4 cup chocolate syrup and 2 cups (1 pint) of vanilla ice cream to a blender.  Blend.<br \/>\nThis syrup would also make a delicious dessert garnish or ice cream topping.<br \/>\nRecipe source- Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook, 1968.<\/p>\n<p>We also plotted our next flavor of&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CAKE BALLS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>chocolate cake<br \/>\n1 tsp mint extract<br \/>\nmilk chocolate frosting.<\/p>\n<p>We cooked it and are just waiting to crumble it up and mix away! Can&#8217;t wait to try this one.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2603.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2603-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_2603\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\"\/><\/a>    <a href=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2609.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2609-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_2609\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\"\/><\/a>      <a href=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2605.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2605-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_2605\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve really enjoyed Jillee&#8217;s One Good Thing blog. She&#8217;s got great natural tips for the home and yummy ones, too! Today we (that is me, and my small kitchen helper) tried a recipe for homemade chocolate syrup, and it was a definite hit! We enjoyed some delicious homemade chocolate milk. HOMEMADE CHOCOLATE SYRUP 1 1\/2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theholtsite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}