Midnight Chocolate Malt

Name: Midnight Chocolate Malt
Yield: serves 2 sleepwalkers
Ingredients: 1 pint premium chocolate ice cream; 3/4 cup coffee-flavored liqueur (we use Kahlúa); 1/4 cup whole milk (more if necessary); 3 tablespoons chocolate syrup; 1 ripe banana; 4 tablespoons malt powder; 1 cup chocolate-covered malt balls (I recommend Whoppers)

December 9, 2011

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Photo by Chelsea Kyle

This is the kind of decadent concoction that you whip up in the middle of the night, when you can raid the freezer, the fruit bowl, and your daughters’ candy stash and no one is the wiser. Head this way for a more classic chocolate malt.

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