Making Your Own Chocolate Covered Coffee Beans
Making Your Own Chocolate Covered Coffee Beans
Ingredients
• 2/3 Cup Semisweet Chocolate Chips
• 1-1/2 Teaspoons Shortening
• 1/2 Cup Coffee Beans
• 1 Tbsp High Esters Jamaican Rum
• Baking cocoa, optional
Directions
In a microwave, melt chocolate chips and shortening; stir until smooth. Add Jamaican Rum and stir. Dip coffee beans in chocolate; allow excess to drip off. Place on waxed paper; let stand for 10-15 minutes.
Roll in cocoa if desired; let stand until set. Store in an air tight container. Yield: 1 cup.
Source: Taste of Home
Did you know that...
We may think of the 1650s as a time of puritanical austerity, with the banning of holly wreaths and the closing of theaters. But it was during these years of austerity that coffee and chocolate first went on sale in Britain!
The first cup of coffee appears to have been served in 1650, at the Angel Inn in Oxford, where an enterprising Jewish merchant began the long tradition of seeing students through their exams.
The first cup of hot chocolate, however, came seven years later, when in 1657 an advertisement informed the public that they could enjoy “an excellent West Indian drink called "chocolate” at a house in Queen’s Head Alley, Bishopsgate.
Coffee was also widely promoted as a ‘cure-all’. A 1660 advertisement by James Gough, who sold coffee in Oxford, stated that coffee had so many advantages that “it would be too tedious to nominate everything it is good for”.
Chocolate, on the other hand, was promoted by various treatises, advertisements and poems, such as In Praise of Chocolate by James Wadsworth (who wrote under the compelling pseudonym Don Diego de Vadesforte). A “lick of chocolate”, Wadsworth claimed, not only helped women to get pregnant but, nine months later, eased the pains and length of childbirth!