For the holidays I wanted to give out gifts but I had no money! I decided I’d try to make something yummy with the things I already had.
I decided to make Peppermint Hot Chocolate.
Perfect Peppermint Hot CoCo
My first steps were to make a batch of the stuff, and it had to be perfect. I would mix ingredients together and try 4oz cups.
After much experimentation with many different ingredients such as condensed milk, vanilla extract, peppermint extract and dozen of test tastes until my tongue literally went numb and I had to take a break before starting again, I’ve made the perfect peppermint hot coco. Combining the soothing aspects of peppermint leaves with the comforting effects of chocolate. Peppermint hot chocolate is one of those things that I’ve always had a love affair with. Combining Organic Raw Cacao powder, Soothing peppermint leaves, and German Rock Sugar makes for me the perfect cup of Chocolate Tea.
I then went threw several revisions for the Instructions looking for the best way to make Peppermint Hot CoCo. All in all I ended up drinking most of the coco that I had tweaking the ingredients and trying to find the perfect mix.
My final Instructions for Cup: Bring one cup of water to a boil.
Mix in 1/2oz coco while stiring vigorously.
Wait 1 minute then add 2oz milk. Final product should be the color of chocolate milk
Here’s a picture of my test lab:
Next steps: I need to find a cute inexpensive way to store packets of it and print out labels while portioning it out to a average serving.
I used my vacuum sealer to package them into servings for 1 to 2 cups of coco.
and made labels
And here it is! 
I put easy tear cuts in the sides of the bags and taped the labels on.
This was a fun project but it was also really stressful at times. I made 12 packets of CoCo ranging from .60-1oz or 3-5 teaspoons all in all I wish I had made a larger batch of coco, but that would have involved going to the market and buying more than I should be spending.
Hopefully everyone will appreciate these single serving drink packets.