Chocolate Bubble Gum Cocktail: We Are All Doomed
I'm the worst at writing intros for my posts. Honestly, it's terrible. Happily for you, I'm not going to spend too much time struggling with it. Instead, I'm going to just say that it's a pretty great time to be an Invader Zim fan. We've been getting our fix pretty regularly with the not-too-shabby Invader Zim comic, but then about three weeks ago, this was posted online. YES, my disgusting worm-babies, we are all doomed. And frankly, I couldn't be more pleased. Added bonus, this gives me another excuse to create an adult beverage based on one of my favorite fandoms.
Brace yourself people, and behold my inspiration.
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There were a lot of different ways I could have gone about this. At first I considered tracking down some chocolate soda to make a very traditional Slurpee. Then I thought about creating a very traditional ice cream soda made with chocolate and bubble gum ice cream. I had two road blocks here. The first was that both initial ideas involved ingredients that were a bit hard to find. The second block was that if I was going to drink this thing, I didn't want to use a ton of dairy.
My solution to both of these problems was to create an adult beverage. Making something smaller and using alcohol would give me an excuse to tailor it a bit more to my taste and maybe come up with something (prepare your pretension filter people) more sophisticated. And yes, even my eyes rolled as I typed that last sentence.
Ingredients:
Unsweetened cocoa powder Godiva chocolate liqueur almond milk or regular milk vanilla Bubble Gum flavoring simple syrup optional: cream
Pro-tip: Before you make this drink, create some ice cubes out of milk (or in my case almond milk). This will prevent your drink from getting watered down as you drink it.
There aren't a lot of instructions here. All these ingredients can be adjusted to taste. For the sake of understanding my results, I will say that I used about 1 cup of frozen almond milk and 2 tablespoons of cocoa powder. In order to help things blend, I dumped in a splash each of the vanilla and simple syrup. For the booze, I used one shot glass.
The bubblegum flavoring goes a VERY long way. I used a drop from an eyedropper.
Once you blend up your drink, taste it and add any adjustments. I used a little extra sweetener as the dark cocoa powder made the finish a bit too bitter.
I know you're wondering what this tasted like. The truth is that it wasn't too bad. It tasted like a Tootsie Pop. If I ever make it again, I think the plan would be to create a pink bubble gum sugar rim and to see if I could make something that is less like a mudslide and more like an actual slurpee or even a Slush Puppie.
Not a complete failure, but not something I will be adding to any sort of rotation for dinner parties. I think I will just keep it in my pocket to bring out again when the Invader Zim movie/special airs next year. But frankly, who knows what monstrosity I will have come up with by then. I can promise you this much, it won't include adding soap to waffles. Maybe I'll add tuna instead.
Chocolate Bubble Gum Cocktail of Doom
2 tbsp Unsweetened cocoa powder 1-1.5 oz Godiva chocolate liqueur 1 cup almond milk or regular milk frozen into ice cubes 1 tsp vanilla one drop Bubble Gum flavoring 1-2 tbsp simple syrup optional: 2 tbsp cream
Combine all ingredients into a blender and blend until smooth. Taste and adjust ingredients if needed. Serve immediately with an evil grin and promises to take over the world.