Chocolate Soda

Ingredients

• 2 cups chocolate syrup 
• 0.5 cup cocoa powder 
• 2 cups seltzer 
• 0.5 cup sugar 
• 3  vanilla bean seeds scraped from 1/ bean 
• 2 cups water 

Equipment

• sauce pan

Directions

1. Make the chocolate syrup
2. In a medium saucepan, mix water, sugar, cocoa powder, and vanilla and bring to a boil.
3. Take off heat, strain, and let cool.
4. Make the soda
5. Add Chocolate Syrup to seltzer and stir. Divide among tall glasses.
6. Reprinted with permission from Mast Brothers Chocolate: A Family Cookbook by Rick Mast & Michael Mast. Copyright © 2013 by Rick Mast and Michael Mast; photographs © 2013 by Tuukka Koski. Published by Little, Brown and Company.