Chocolate Peppermint Smoothie

Every year we buy several packages of candy canes in every flavor and color. By the time, we take the tree the down it seems like the peppermint ones are left. This year, I tried not but the peppermint candy canes and my husband had a fit because they weren’t on the tree. Peppermint candy canes are like that one dish during the holiday meals that nobody eats but every expects on the table… sigh

I can’t throw them out, it just goes against the grain. I had a recipe from the food network a few years ago that I have (of course) played with and changed a bit. I had made hot chocolate set it down and by the time I came back to it was cold, yuck. The recipe was sitting was on the counter so I used the now cold hot chocolate in the smoothie and like the results much better.

The original recipe had you rim the glass with the crushed candy canes. Which is fine, I prefer to add the candy canes to the smoothie. If you prefer to make with the peppermint in the smoothie and on the rim of the glass make sure, you have 6 crushed candy canes.

Ingredients:

         2 cups Yoplait chocolate mousse yogurt

         1 cup ice

         1 cup chocolate milk or cold, hot chocolate

         3 candy canes, crushed

Directions:

Place all ingredients in a blender. Puree until smooth. 

To dress up you glass with crushed peppermint:

Moisten the rims of each glass and press into crushed candy cane. Drizzle chocolate syrup in each glass then pour in smoothie