HearthIQ
Chocolate Egg Cream
HearthIQ · CuratedRecipe
HearthIQ Signature

Chocolate Egg Cream

An egg cream has no egg and no cream. It is milk, chocolate syrup and very cold seltzer, stirred until a head of foam rises. Children are fascinated by it, and adults remember it. Order matters: milk, syrup, then seltzer.

4 glassesYield
EasyDifficulty

What you'll need

  • 1 cup cold whole milk (240 ml)
  • 0.5 cup chocolate syrup (120 ml)
  • 3 cups very cold seltzer (720 ml)

How to make it

  1. Pour 1/4 cup milk into each of four tall glasses.

  2. Add 2 tablespoons chocolate syrup to each.

  3. Pour in seltzer quickly to make a head, then stir briskly with a long spoon.

  4. Glass: Tall glasses. Garnish: None.

Chef's secrets

Seltzer must be very cold and very fizzy.

Pour from a height.

Good to know

Make ahead

Not a make-ahead drink.