Copycat Starbucks Chili Mocha Thai Style
This is a recipe for a chili mocha drink using Thai chili powder rather than the traditional ones. It is super spicy if you want it to be so proceed with caution. 🙂 This is a recipe inspired from my beloved company Starbucks. It is a long way from being an exact copy but more of an inspired by recipe. I describe the differences a bit more below.
Background
Our last Starbucks copycat recipe did so well I had to do another one. If this one does well also you can expect more to come. I am a Starbucks addict and I love their chili mocha drinks. Our budget includes $100 approximately for my caffeine fix so figuring out how to do some of these drinks at home is a score for us.
My first question was, "What is mocha?". We've all heard it a thousand times and at least for me I just accepted that it was fancier than regular coffee. The people at my local Starbucks were nice enough to show me how they just add a bit of their mocha powder and a little of their chili powder to a regular coffee.
Allrecipes has one recipe that is just a little coffee, a little cocoa powder and a little sugar. That's really all it is. If you want to know the exact type of powders used by Starbucks my friend Stephanie Manly at copykat.com has done a good job figuring out the ingredients starbucks uses for their mochas. They are using Medaglia D'Oro Instant Espresso mix and Fontana(TM) semi-sweet chocolate mocha sauce. I highly recommend following her site if you dig copycat recipes. She is a true pro.
Our Recipe
For our recipe I used a chocolate protein powder which tastes a lot like cocoa to me and did the job nicely in the end product. I also used a Thai chili powder my wife makes for the chili powder. Rather than sugar or syrup we use stevia as usual. Garnish with a fresh Thai chili and please be careful with the little firecrackers! 🙂
Ingredients:
- 1 Heaping scoop of a chocolate protein powder, or as I stated before you can just use 1 teaspoon cocoa powder if that's what you have.
- ¼ teaspoon of my wife's Homemade Thai Chili Powder
- 1 teaspoon of stevia
- 1 stout cup of hot instant coffee
Directions:
- Make a large hot cup of coffee using the directions on the package
- Add the other ingredients and shake or blend
- Taste and add some kind of milk if it is too spicy or add chili powder if it's not spicy enough
- Garnish with a fresh Thai chili pepper if you have one
Copycat Starbucks Chili Mocha Using Thai Chili Powder
- 1 Heaping scoop of a chocolate protein powder, or as I stated before you can just use cocoa powder if that's what you have.
- ¼ teaspoon of my wife's
- Homemade Thai Chili Powder
- 1 teaspoon of stevia
- 1 stout cup of hot instant coffee
- Make a large hot cup of coffee using the directions on the package
- Add the other ingredients and shake or blend
- Taste and add some kind of milk if it is too spicy or add chili powder if it's not spicy enough
- Garnish with a fresh Thai chili pepper if you have one
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