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Chocolate Coffee Lover’s Delight 

This intoxicating blend of chocolate and coffee is the perfect compliment for a weekend curl up on the couch, and maybe a bottle of red…

Ingredients

- 2 cups non-fat milk

- 1/2 cup sugar

- 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

- 2 shots Café Campesino Fair Trade Organic Coffee

- 3 teaspoons cornstarch

- 1/2 cup chocolate chips (semi-sweet or milk chocolate)

- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla

- small chocolate bar for garnish (optional)

- whipped topping for garnish (optional; see below for a cool recipe from last issue!)

Directions

- Pre-measure all ingredients.

- Heat milk approximately 3 minutes over medium heat, stirring frequently. Add sugar, cocoa powder, coffee, cornstarch and chocolate chips. Stir constantly for 6 minutes or until mixture becomes thick.

- Remove from heat and add vanilla. Divide among 4 small ramekins or serving bowls.

- Cool for 20-30 minutes. Garnish with chocolate curls or whipped cream if desired and serve.

With the redesign of our blog and newsletter, we are dilligently working to archive all of our past issues of Fair Grounds into categories. From now on, for example, if you want to view a past recipe of the month, you can do so in our recipe category. We expect this transition to be completed in the next two months. We appreciate your patience, and look forward to having you post comments on this blog, which will help further enhance our relationships.

Please read our September newsletter at http://cafecampesino.wordpress.com/category/fair-grounds-newsletter-september-2008/

With the addition of our new coffee house, we are offering our loyal customers the chance to design a fair trade/sweatshop-free, organic T-shirt!  The winner will receive a nifty, red Cafe Campesino bio-degradable corn plastic travel mug, a T-shirt with the new design (of course) and a 1-year coffee club membership… that’s one pound of your choice of coffee shipped right to your doorstep every month! 

The design only needs to include our new, expanded name: Cafe Campesino Fair Trade Organic Coffee Roastery & Coffee House, as well as our website (www.cafecampesino.com)… Other than that, let the creative juices flow! 

Please mail drawn submissions to Rebecca Young at Cafe Campesino, Inc., 725 Spring Street, Americus, GA 31709.  Digital designs should be submitted in Photoshop Illustrator in the highest resolution possible (at least 300 dpi), zipped and emailed to info@cafecampesino.com.

Submissions are due by August 31st. 

As always, thank you for your support…now get to work designing!