Chocolate Gravy

Happy Saturday everyone! 
Blogging has been on a short hiatus as Ryan and I traveled home to KY to see my family over Spring Break and enjoyed the week and spending some time together. I got to see my mom and we even did some cooking together throughout the week! 

 Then I have to share (because I completely love them & their show) that I got to go to the Kansas City Home Show this past Sunday and listen to Chip & Joanna Gaines from the show Fixer Upper on HGTV. Wonderful people who love the Lord and I loved being able to hear from them and their experiences. We happened to get front row but didn't get to meet them since they had a plane to catch. 

  Now, for the food!  
Since the weekend is finally here, we are ready to bring you an awesome recipe that will rock your socks off! Extreme? I promise you it's not. 
It's Chocolate Gravy!    Whenever I talk about making chocolate gravy most people are like, "What, chocolate gravy? What is that?" It is delicious, rich, easy and not good for you in any way. 
Here is the recipe: 
2 3/4 cups milk  4 TBSP cocoa  4 TBSP cornstarch 1 cup sugar  1 TBSP butter 1 TBSP vanilla 
Bring 2 cups of milk to a boil in microwave. This will take about 6-8 minutes. 
In a separate bowl stir 4 TBSP cocoa, 4 TBSP cornstarch and 1 cup of sugar into 3/4 a cup of cold milk, one at a time until completely mix. This takes a little bit of stirring, try to get all the bubbles out. Once stirred, add this bowl to the milk that has boiled in the microwave and cook in microwave until thick. You should cook in 1-2 min. increments to avoid it boiling over. Stir in-between each increment. 
Once it reaches its desired thickness--add 1 TBSP butter and 1 TBSP vanilla.  Stir & serve with hot biscuits. I like to cook some bacon as well so we can have leftover bacon biscuits as breakfast for a couple of busy mornings. 

You may have noticed I said to serve with hot biscuits. If you are in a time crunch packaged biscuits, or frozen biscuits will work just fine. Saturdays right now are laid back in our house so I choose to make some homemade ones. Here is the recipe in case you want to do that too. 

Easy Homemade Biscuits
1 cup of flour- self rising 4 TBSP shortening Milk
Add 1 cup of flour and shortening to a bowl. Use a fork or pastry cutter to mix.  Add milk until the consistency looks right to you. 
I add some flour to the counter top and put out my dough. I use my hands to flatten it out because I like the texture of the biscuits better that way. but you can use a rolling pin as well. Cut out the size biscuits you want and cook at 400 for 8- 10 minutes. Makes about 8 large biscuits. 
Printable Recipe Here: Chocolate Gravy & Biscuits 
Hopefully you have some time to try this recipe this weekend, but if not I recommend you definitely adding it to your list! Enjoy!