Chocolate Syrup to Die For!

Like any normal kids mine love chocolate milk! Even before we started eating a clean diet I was very selective about what my kids could drink. Basically it is water, organic apple juice that 100% juice (we make our own a lot of the time too), or white milk. Their treat has been chocolate milk. Then I read the labels. So for awhile now they haven't even had chocolate milk. I will say that limiting their choices from the beginning has not really been bad because I have three kids that prefer water most of the time. That is not a bad thing! I don't mind an occasional treat though and began to do some research on how to make my own chocolate syrup. I used this Chocolate Syrup recipe and was not disappointed. It was really simple too! I just had an extra pot on the stove while I was cooking dinner and it was ready to go in the milk with dinner! Here are the ingredients I used:
1 1/4 cup organic sugar
1 cup organic unsweetened cocoa powder
1 cup of water
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons organic vanilla extract

You can see how thick it is in this picture.

To make the syrup you combine the sugar and cocoa powder in the pot and stir them together. Add the water and salt and stir until combined. On medium heat bring them to a boil and then stir while it boils for 2-3 minutes. You want to be close by when it comes to a boil because mine expanded and you don't want it to boil over. After a few minutes remove it from the heat and let it set for 5 minutes. Stir in the vanilla and you are done! Mine probably cooled for 10 minutes before I stirred it in the milk. We have our milk delivered from a local dairy each Friday so we have good milk. Now we have good chocolate milk too. Only 5 ingredients that I control. No preservatives, no GMOs, no high fructose corn syrup. I'm not saying this is healthy but it is a nice treat every now and then. Store it in an air tight container and it will last 2-4 weeks. Taking a look at how my little buddy likes it and I don't think ours will make it that long!

Going....going.....

Gone! It's ok little buddy, Mommy has more!