{"id":31,"date":"2008-10-13T00:15:53","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T00:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markiscooking.com\/?p=31"},"modified":"2008-10-13T00:50:47","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T00:50:47","slug":"mocha-smoothie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markiscooking.com\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"Mocha Smoothie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a simple recipe for the Blendtec Total Home Blender. This might work in other blenders too, but consider getting a Blendtec<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 This makes a nice, sugar-free, zero carb, chilled mocha smoothie.\u00a0 It makes enough for two smoothies in normal tall water glasses.<\/p>\n

Ingredients
\n<\/strong>1\/2 cup French Vanilla non-dairy, sugar-free liquid creamer (see note)
\n1 cup water
\n1 tbs Torrani Sugar-free chocolate syrup
\n1\/4 tsp xanthan gum
\n2\u00a0tsp instant coffee
\n1 cup ice cubes<\/p>\n

Pour the creamer into the blender container to the 4 oz mark.\u00a0 Add water to the 12 oz mark.\u00a0 (One of the many things I like about the Blendtec is the easy-to-read markings on the container – saves cleaning an extra measuring cup.)\u00a0 Add the chocolate syrup and the instant coffee.\u00a0 Gently sprinkle the xanthan gum over the surface of the liquid.\u00a0 Add the ice.\u00a0 Blend on the “smoothie” setting.\u00a0 Pour into glasses and enjoy!<\/p>\n

Notes:\u00a0 This will make a drink that is medium thick – it will have some body but won’t be frozen.\u00a0 If you want it thicker and frozen, then reduce the water to 1\/2 cup (fill the water to the 8 oz mark instead of the 12 oz mark) and add 1\/2 cup more of ice.\u00a0 This recipe is designed for ice cubes – the crescent shaped kind from automatic ice-makers.\u00a0 If you use other forms of ice, you’ll have to play around to get the amount of ice and liquid correct.\u00a0 Crushed ice requires less ice and more liquid.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I’ve used non-dairy, sugar free creamers from Coffeemate and International Delights.\u00a0 Both seem to work and taste the same.\u00a0 You’ll find them in the milk section of the market.\u00a0 If you don’t care about sugar or dairy, feel free to substitute the creamer of your choice.<\/p>\n

The Blendtec has a “smoothie” setting that runs the blender through a program of speeds – something other blenders don’t have.\u00a0 If you don’t have a Blendtec then follow the smoothie directions that came with your blender.<\/p>\n

\"xanthanThe xanthan gum is there to provide body and mouthfeel.\u00a0 It also helps to keep the drink “together” which is technically known as stabilizing.\u00a0 It might sound like a weird ingredient but it’s a natural ingredient derived from fermented corn.\u00a0 You can find it at most high end supermarkets, Whole Foods and health food stores.\u00a0 Look in the baking section or if they have a “gluten free” section it will be there.\u00a0 Bob’s Red Mill brand is the easiest to find.\u00a0 If you can’t be bothered to seek out the xanthan gum, then you can likely substitute instant pudding mix (vanilla or chocolate) – use about 1\/2 tbs – but xanthan gum is way cheaper in the long run.\u00a0 Pudding mix will also add sugar and carbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a simple recipe for the Blendtec Total Home Blender. This might work in other blenders too, but consider getting a Blendtec.\u00a0\u00a0 This makes a nice, sugar-free, zero carb, chilled mocha smoothie.\u00a0 It makes enough for two smoothies in normal tall water glasses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,29],"tags":[90,91,168,30,81,101,4,96,93,95,99,98,97,100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markiscooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markiscooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markiscooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markiscooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markiscooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/markiscooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"http:\/\/markiscooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markiscooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markiscooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markiscooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}