On 2006-12-09, Natarajan Krishnaswami wrote:
One local coffee shop near me has an absolutely fantastic one of
these [Banana Coffee Smoothie] with chocolate. Mmmm.

MOD's NOTE
Do you have or can you re-create their culinary interpretation of this drink?

For the chocolate, I would expect any of
dark chocolate syrup
sweetened cocoa mix
sugar and cocoa powder (pref. non-dutched)
melted dark chocolate

would work passably. They should be diluted in enough liquid (water,
or milk/soy milk, say) to make a thick but pourable batter, if needed.
Depending on how much work I felt like doing, I'd probably use the
last two.

I'd put
a few oz. very strong coffee (brewed at 2x strength), chilled
one ripe banana, cut into a few pieces
ice
in a blender, and while grinding, add the chocolate.

The ice is needed for the texture of this drink, but also keeps the
strongly flavored ingredients flavors from being too assertive.

Note that I haven't tried making this. It might also stand some more
milk/soy milk, but I'd probably try it without first.


N.