Chocolate Italian Cream Soda
This past weekend was rolling right along… we celebrated our grandpap’s birthday on Saturday, and on Sunday our Chief Culinary Consultant’s parents came over because his dad was helping him with some garage projects. While they guys were working in the garage, his mom and we put together a recipe she had brought over for stuffed chicken breasts. We were getting ready to eat and we were cutting the twine off the chicken breasts. We were on the last one when an ominous slip of the hand sent us to MedExpress faster than you can say “ouch”. Five stitches and a tetanus shot later, we were back home.
Needless to say, absolutely nothing happened in our kitchen yesterday, but our awesome Chief Culinary Consultant ran to the grocery store to pick up a few things, including ingredients to make chocolate-flavored Italian cream sodas. They were the reliable little pick-us-up we needed after a long day of doing nothing but sitting on the couch with our laptop, watching Wimbledon, Barefoot Contessa and flipping through magazines.
We love how straightforward these sodas are to make; if you have 5 minutes, you can stir up one of these bad boys! A standby part is the flavor possibilities are pretty much endless. Torani sells dozens of different flavors of syrup, and you could even use your own from-scratch syrups. We, however, was definitely in need of a chocolate fix!
Here’s how to make them:
Take a glass filled with ice and pour in your club soda…
Then drizzle in the chocolate syrup…
Then the half-and-half. We love how the white swirls in there!
Stir it up and sip away!
This tastes like a bubbly chocolate milk, which means that the kid in you is going to absolutely love it!
It’s the reliable drink to share with someone who has taken such good care of you for the last couple of days, and who even helped pull your hair into a ponytail. ♥
One year ago: S’mores Ice Cream
Two years ago: Dried Apricot-Pistachio Ice Cream
Chocolate Italian Cream Soda
Yield: 1 drink A straightforward recipe for Chocolate Italian Cream Soda.- Ice
- ½ cup (237 ml) club soda
- 3 tablespoons Torani chocolate syrup, or flavor of your choice
- 2 tablespoons half-and-half
- Whipped cream for topping, optional
- Fill a glass three-quarters full of ice.
- Pour the club soda into the glass, followed by the chocolate syrup and the half-and-half. Stir it up, top with whipped cream if you'd like, and enjoy!
Notes
Nutritional values are based on one drink
- Yield: 1 drink
- Prep: 5 minutes
- Total: 5 minutes
Ingredients
- Ice
- ½ cup ( 237 ml ) club soda
- 3 tablespoons Torani chocolate syrup, or flavor of your choice
- 2 tablespoons half-and-half
- Whipped cream for topping, optional
Method
- Fill a glass three-quarters full of ice.
- Pour the club soda into the glass, followed by the chocolate syrup and the half-and-half. Stir it up, top with whipped cream if you'd like, and enjoy!
