A Few Quick One Liners…. And Chocolate Covered Espresso Beans
1. I made Chocolate Covered Espresso Beans! Well, I made more like ‘bark style’ chocolate espresso beans, but kinda the same. It was way easy. Remember I said I was doing cool stuff for American Chocolate Week? Well, I did. I was just way too busy with this whole Easter Bunny shenanigans and needed a nap. So, you can find the recipe below. I also made Drunk Coffee and Chocolate Cupcakes. {coffee and chocolate Bailey’s cupcakes with whipped cream flavored vodka frosting} I posting that on the other blog, go check those babies out! And, some homemade Vanilla Bean Ice Cream. That I’ll post here after I watch the season finale of Walking Dead I missed last night. You should check those out too! And don’t tell me what happened on my show!
2. Took Ethan to Chuck E Cheese. I love that he plays Skee-Ball like A Champ! But, some of those *other* kids and quite a few of their parents… let’s just say there’s not enough chocolate covered espresso beans in the entire world to make me love Chuck E Cheese. That place is not for amateurs. It’s brutal ya’ll! Oh! Remind me sometime to tell you about working at ShowBiz Pizza when I was 16. Imagine Chuck E Cheese but with a bear instead of a mouse. I had to dress in the bear costume. #Worst1stJobEver !!
3. As a MLB fan {GO CUBS!} and HUGE coffee drinker, I kind of find this disgusting. Do we really need Hot Dog flavored coffee? I’m thinking no. And… eeeww… If you’re a PR rep for International Delight and read this, feel free to send some my way if you think it’ll change my mind. If it does, I’ll totally admit I’m wrong. But I don’t think I can buy it. And please send some back up favorites {Almond Joy and Heath Bar} you know, just in case.
4. Because THIS is one of the coolest things I’ve seen all week….
Ready for the Chocolate Espresso Beans Recipe? Let’s go!
Ingredients:
- 4 oz. Milk, White or Dark Chocolate (we used a bag of Hershey’s Dark Chocolate Chips!)
- 2 Cups Roasted Espresso Beans (we bought a bag of Starbucks)
Directions:
Line a cookie sheet with parchment or wax paper. Heat chocolate in a double boiler until melted. Stirring a LOT!!! Avoid getting any water in your chocolate. Even a tiny little drop will mess up your whole batch of chocolate! Add espresso beans to the melted chocolate, a handful or so at a time. Stir until beans are well-coated. Scoop up the beans with a fork to drop them onto the parchment or wax paper one at a time so that they’re not touching. Let the chocolate harden completely and then seal them up in a tightly covered container. Or, you can just go ahead and melt chips in a glass bowl in the microwave, pour in beans, stir and spread it out into a ‘sheet’. Let harden and break into chunks. We did that!
How many can you eat before it hits you?
Not enough LOL
Actually, it depends on the quality and size of the beans… I’m good after a handful.
The bark looks great-no hot dog cremer for me and the Salsa Dog is adorable!
Wowwweee! I could use some of this right now. Mostly for the caffeine. But also chocolate. Don’t judge me for wanting chocolate at 9am. LOL
And yea…some coffee creamer flavors are not meant to be. Hot dog is one of them. Then again, I don’t think pumpkin and coffee go together either, but that’s just me…;)
No judging here! I ate 3 WITH my coffee! Because chocolate AND caffeine… Oh yes!
My daughter loves going to chuckie Cheese and just like you i do not like it hehe
My two favorite things, coffee and chocolate!! Simple ingredients as well! Looks delicious..
Wow, who knew making bark was so easy! I had no idea! I have a few different things I want to try this with besides the espresso beans.
I feel for you having to take Ethan to Chuck E. Cheese. That was a place I tried to avoid at all costs! Thankfully, you had the chocolate expresso beans to make up for it. 🙂
Couldn’t be any easier!! I am so doing this (once I get my hands on some coffee grains)!!
Chuck E Cheese…been there twice and I try to avoid it!! We have a smaller chain here like Chuck E Cheese, and thankfully it is never crowded!
I could really use some of those chocolate espresso beans right now!! You can keep those creamers though…eeewwww! Its vanilla, mint or almond joy for me!!
I heart this whole post. Where in the heavens did you find that cruddy hot dog flavored coffee cream? That is a travesty and I know the blood of Jesus is against it. I can’t imagine the kick that comes from chocolate covered coffee beans, though. #highgearallday
It’s heaven! The beans, not the creamer. EEww… (ID PR peeps still radio silence)
I am not a coffee or espresso fan but I have a ton of family members and friends that would LOVE this recipe. I am with you on the hot dog creamer. I mean, really? Odd!
I wish I liked coffee because those beans look great
I’ll pass on the creamer but the espresso beans sound good!
Yum! These sound fabulous. But ugh… hot dog in my coffee? No thanks!
Love the chocolate espresso beans idea. I need to try that.
Hot dog flavored creamer…. ewwww! I kept think you would say it was a joke.
Oh Chuckie Cheese! I miss that place use to go all the time as a kid!!
I am definitely not a coffee drinker, but hey, it looks good just the same. My daughter loves Chuck E. Cheese, but her parents do NOT lol! I also believe I may have had a birthday party or something like it at a Showbiz Pizza once upon a time… LOL!
This is one yummy post! I better head into breakfast!
thanks,
Mitch
I’m fairly sure hot dogs do not belong in coffee. Just saying. 🙂 Chocolate covered expresso beans with coffee is something I can get behind.
Yum! I love chocolate covered espresso beans! They’re the best grown-up candy on the planet!
My son has asked me numerous times to take him to Chuck E. Cheese, but based on horror stories I’ve heard from other parents, I have never taken him. Maybe one day!
That hot dog flavored creamer sounds GROSS!