Chocolate Mint Cooler - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/4 cup hot chocolate powder
1 2/3 cups milk
2/3 cup plain yogurt
1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract
4 scoops chocolate ice cream

Preparation

Put hot chocolate powder in a sml pan & stir in 1/2 cup milk. Heat gently (stirring) till almost boiling. Remove pan from heat.
Put hot chocolate milk in heatproof bowl or lrg pitcher & whisk in the remaining milk.
Add the yoghurt & peppermint extract & whisk again.
Pour the mixture into 4 tall glasses, filling them no more than 3/4 full. Top ea drink w/a scoop of ice cream. Garnish w/fresh mint leaves to get fancy. YUM!
VARIATIONS: For \"Chocolate Vanilla Cooler\", use light cream instead of yoghurt + 1 tsp vanilla extract instead of peppermint extract -- or -- For \"Mocha Cooler\", dissolve the chocolate in 1/2 cup strong black coffee & reduce milk to 1 1/4 cups. Use cream instead of yoghurt & leave out the extract.