Making Banana Mint Hot Chocolate

Video Transcript

"Hi, I’m Scott for Expert Village and today I’m going to teach you how to make Banana Mint Hot Chocolate. Here’s some of the ingredients that we need in order to make this delicious treat; four pieces of chocolate, a banana, some vanilla and a cup of milk and one peppermint. To get this recipe started the first thing that we have to do is add a glass of milk, the next step is of course to add our chocolate. Make sure when you melt it down to keep the pan at about a medium setting so you don’t burn the chocolate. Be sure to keep stirring everything that is contained within the pan so that nothing sticks to the bottom and starts to burn. This is very important. Now we can go ahead and add our vanilla. Okay, nows the time to melt down our banana. What we have to do with bananas is we take it and cut about half of a banana and slice it into thin pieces, about I don’t know, a quarter of an inch thick. So when you throw it into the warm liquid they’ll soften up and melt a little bit. But they’re not going to melt completely, you’ll still have the cores and that’s a lot of fun to drink. Everything is mixing together nicely so we’ll go ahead and we’ll take our peppermint candy now and we’ll put that in there as well. Make sure that you keep stirring this, because this is pure sugar here so if you’re not mixing it, it’s going to caramelize, make sure your heat’s on a medium setting as well. Once you have it in there, we’re pretty much finished. So now we just keep mixing this up until the chocolate is completely done. You pick up your hot chocolate that you just made, you’ve got to be sure that you’re careful when you’re pouring it because sometimes you spill over a little bit. Grab your cinnamon take a little pinch of it and sprinkle it on top. Now you can’t always expect to get it right the first time, that’s why you’ve got to try it a few times, but once you get it right you’ll figure out exactly how to do it to your specifications. For Expert Village, Mmm, I’m Scott."