pizzaman
Well-Known Member
I'm trying to concoct a chocolate soda. There is a diner I used to go to that would add chocolate flavoring to any soda, chocolate dr. pepper was beautiful. I'm not trying to recreate this exactly, if I were I would just pour chocolate syrup into a dr. pepper. Searching for chocolate soda recipes turned up bunk on this forum, the only legitimate recipe I found elsewhere on the internet is listed below.
Combine Water, Sugar, Cocoa, Cinnamon, and Vanilla; boil 15 minutes, stirring constantly. Let cool, add yeast, bottle.
This recipe was found here: Homemade Chocolate Soda « LIBATIONS
It is a rather useless recipe as the only quantities he gives are of the amount of water used....and honestly if I had sat down and thought about what I would make a chocolate soda out of, I would have come up with the same thing on my own.
Here is my recipe for chocolate soda:
2 Liters hot water
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 Tbsp vanilla extract
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp fleischmann's active dry bread yeast
Combine all ingredients except yeast, stir to blend. When slightly warmer than room temperature, add yeast, shake, and bottle. I just made a batch of this, I'll be tasting it tomorrow and will report back with my results. While waiting for this to cool down, I was pouring myself a cup of coffee and had an idea. Since I have 1 Liter bottles, after pitching the yeast I filled up one bottle, then added 1/2 Tbsp instant coffee to the batch and filled the other bottle with that. So I'll have two different sodas to taste tomorrow.
Combine Water, Sugar, Cocoa, Cinnamon, and Vanilla; boil 15 minutes, stirring constantly. Let cool, add yeast, bottle.
This recipe was found here: Homemade Chocolate Soda « LIBATIONS
It is a rather useless recipe as the only quantities he gives are of the amount of water used....and honestly if I had sat down and thought about what I would make a chocolate soda out of, I would have come up with the same thing on my own.
Here is my recipe for chocolate soda:
2 Liters hot water
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 Tbsp vanilla extract
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp fleischmann's active dry bread yeast
Combine all ingredients except yeast, stir to blend. When slightly warmer than room temperature, add yeast, shake, and bottle. I just made a batch of this, I'll be tasting it tomorrow and will report back with my results. While waiting for this to cool down, I was pouring myself a cup of coffee and had an idea. Since I have 1 Liter bottles, after pitching the yeast I filled up one bottle, then added 1/2 Tbsp instant coffee to the batch and filled the other bottle with that. So I'll have two different sodas to taste tomorrow.