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Cravings....


The past few days I've been dreaming of Starbucks 'salted caramel hot chocolate', but as I've said several times on this blog lately, I'm off sugar, gluten (wheat)  and most dairy products.  So, I have to think up ways to sub some of our favorite things w/o all the extra calories and fat.  As far as the dreamy hot chocolate goes, this is what I came up with:

(Makes 1 mug)
Hot water
1 T. unsweetened cocoa powder (I used Ghirardelli dark ground chocolate)
1 T. non-fat, non-dairy creamer
Splash of sugar-free Torani caramel syrup
Splash of sugar-free Torani vanilla syrup
Couple of dashes of course sea salt

Mix all together and YUM!

*Drum roll... duh duh duh duh...  caloric intake: <50 freakin' calories!  It's by and far not as pretty as the pic, but my family said it was the best hot chocolate they'd ever tasted.

Score one for me.  = D






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