Inmate Coffee

Now here's a holiday recipe that you just won't find anywhere!

Shane has frequently referred to inmate coffee, but somehow I missed the ingredients until we had a little get together at our house. Along with all the normal discussion surrounding tasers and pepper spray, Shane introduced inmate coffee. Since we had the coffee pot full and hot, some of us tried some. It's good stuff, here's the recipe:

In your favorite My Heart Belongs to an Officer mug, put the same amount of hot chocolate mix as you would if you were making hot chocolate.

Instead of using hot water, use hot coffee and fill up your cup.

I'm not patient enough to wait, so I add a few tablespoons of milk to cool things down a little and to add a tad more richness.

If you're making this for a crowd, you might consider renaming it something a little more suave, like "Coffee Flavored Hot Chocolate" or "Chocolate Java"...anything but "Inmate Coffee".

Just a bit of trivia-it's called Inmate Coffee b/c at the SO where Shane works, the inmates don't get hot water for hot chocolate, but they do have hot chocolate packets, so they substitute the coffee for the water. I think that's why anyway...sometimes I don't listen fully to all the stories-but don't tell Shane that!