Hills Bros. Cappuccino Mix - Mocha Mint, 15 oz

This is delicious!

They kept sending me the wrong flavor. I got refunds, and was able to keep the wrong ones. But didn’t really like them. Once I finally started receiving the correct flavor, Mocha Mint, I came up with an excellent recipe for my morning iced Mochas that I take to work in a little canteen. Hear me out on this: Take a gallon jug and fill it about half way with HOT water. Use a funnel or something and dump in an entire pound package of the Mocha Mint mix. Probably any flavor will work. Add 2/3 cup of instant coffee grounds. Pro tip: After measuring the coffee grounds, I like to grind them up in a mortar/pestle into powder so it dissolves better. Put the cap on the gallon jug and shake the crap out of it so everything dissolves really good. Now fill the rest of the jug with fat free (skim) milk and put it into the fridge for later. Makes awesome iced Mochas, ready to drink. I just fill up my 12oz canteen every morning to take to work and keep it cold. Plus a glass or two on weekend days. For my consumption, a gallon lasts me about a week. I buy a gallon of skim milk and make 2 gallons of mocha at a time, making sure the expiration date on the milk is good for close to a couple weeks away. Cost comes out to $7.63/gallon for the Mocha mix and the milk (I didn’t calculate the cost of the coffee grounds, they’re so cheap). Calories are about 169/cup. I’d be curious to know if anyone else does something like this too. **EDIT TO MY RECIPE FOR ULTIMATE SIMPLICITY** Start with 2 empty gallon jugs (like milk jugs). Dump 1 cup of instant coffee grounds in each jug. I use disposable paper funnels, and I stopped bothering to grind up the instant coffee. Dump 1 container of cappuccino mix in each jug. (Do this all outside because the powder flies around like dust) Now pour 6 cups of HOT tap water in each jug. Cap the jugs and shake until powder is dissolved. Best to do an initial shake, then another shake a while later to let the powder soak up the water. Put the jugs in the fridge until cool, like overnight. Now you can pour skim milk in each jug to fill them up and complete the recipe. If you’ve done it correctly, it will now take exactly one gallon of skim milk to fill both jugs basically to their tops. Now that you have two gallons of pre-made iced mocha, you can put one or both of the jugs in the freezer and take them out as needed. Just remember that they’ll swell when they freeze, so I squeeze the jugs first to remove the air at the top, then put the caps on. That way the liquid has some room to expand without busting the jugs. Bonus: Rinse out the skim milk jug and use it for making more iced mocha next time. I like making 2-4 gallons (or more) at a time to save myself time and not have to buy milk so often. Got plenty of room in my freezer for it.

To my mocha brewed coffee and it deepens the chocolate taste w a hint of peppermint. It's like having winter season anytime I want. To me, it tastes much better then the oil based creamers. Sometimes if I'm in a hurry I'll make it as the coffee itself,but I mostly use it as a creamer.

This is by far my favorite Hills Bros Cappuccino. I am so happy they decided to keep the Mocha Mint flavor around all year. Walmart was the only place I could find it locally, and I know I am not alone when I say I realllllllly do not like going into that store. So, when I found Mocha Mint on Amazon and for a fair price, I jumped at it. I pay $3.58 locally for Mocha Mint, and to find it at $19.44 for 6 with free shipping right to my door? No brainer. I add this wonderful mix to my coffee in the mornings (I'm a "doctor her up" coffee drinker, can't drink black coffee lol). Anyway, very pleased with how the packageing was, everything. Will be back for more soon!

LOVE THE TASTE ON THIS ONE, warm sweetness in a cup

I usually get the white chocolate caramel, which is fantastic, but wanted to try the mocha mint because I love peppermint lattes, and it’s SOOO GOOD! I know it’s a seasonal product, but I would love to have Christmas in a cup all year long. Also, one container of this product gives me multiple drinks, so cheaper than going to a coffee shop. Win!

So good in the winter, hard to find the peppermint flavor in the stores.

the small bits of peppermint in the mix make this product less than it could be. The flavor is good but those bits of peppermint are a royal pain. They are large enough that a normal quick stir after adding hot water will leave a sticky mess in the bottom of your cup. To get the chips to fully dissolve you must use hotter water than normal *and* stir the liquid for at least 30-60 seconds. After making 4 cups I put the rest of the container through a fine mesh sieve to remove the peppermint chips. While the resulting cup of cappuccino had less of a mint flavor I didn't have to deal with the mess of the chips. If they change the formula to use peppermint oil *or* grind the chips to dust so they incorporate better I'll purchase the product again, otherwise this one is off the shopping list.