Recipes & Brewing Tips

There are more ways to enjoy the full rich flavor of Chock full o'Nuts than there are varieties of Chock full o'Nuts. Here's just a small sampling of scrumptious ideas to get you started. And everything you need to know to make coffee like a real pro.

Café Mexicano

Ingredients:

8 cups water
1/3 cup firmly packed brown sugar
2 whole cloves
1 cinnamon stick
8 ounces whipping cream
1 ounce unsweetened baking chocolate
1 cup Chock full o'Nuts Original ground coffee
1 teaspoon vanilla

Directions:

In a medium saucepan over medium-high heat; bring water to a boil. Stir in brown sugar, cloves and cinnamon stick (broken in half). Reduce heat and simmer for 15 minutes. While mixture simmers, whip cream to soft peaks. Hold in refrigerator. Remove brown sugar/spice mixture from heat; stir in chocolate until melted. Add ground coffee, cover and let stand 5 minutes. Stir in vanilla. Strain mixture through cheesecloth or a coffee filter. Serve immediately in coffee mugs garnished with whipped cream. Serves 8.

Coffee Spritzer

Ingredients:

1 cup Chock full o'Nuts Rich French Roast coffee
1 liter bottle seltzer (without salt) or carbonated mineral water

Directions:

Pour Chock full o'Nuts Rich French Roast coffee over cracked ice or ice cubes in tall glass with seltzer (without salt) or carbonated mineral water. Serves 1.

Iced Café Au Lait

Ingredients:

1 cup Chock full o'Nuts New York Classics SoHo Morning Roast coffee brewed
1 cup chilled skim milk
1 tablespoon nondairy whipped topping
Pinch of ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Directions:

Combine vanilla and milk with coffee. Pour the mixture over ice, and top with whipped topping and a pinch of ground cinnamon. Serves 2.

Sassy Sodas

Ingredients:

1 pint coffee ice cream
2 tablespoon ground Chock full o'Nuts 100% Colombian coffee
1/2 cup light rum
4 to 6 scoops vanilla ice cream
Cocoa powder

Directions:

Spoon coffee ice cream into blender container. Add rum and coffee that has been finely ground to a powdery texture. Blend on high speed until creamy smooth. Pour into tall glasses, adding a scoop of vanilla ice cream to each glass. Sprinkle lightly with cocoa powder. Serve with long-handled spoons and soda straws. Serves 4-6

BBQ SAUCE

Ingredients:

2-3 lbs of raw chicken for barbecuing
1 cup finely chopped onions
1 cup chopped bell pepper
2 cloves crushed garlic
1 cup catsup
1/2 cup dark molasses
1 tbsp or to taste Tabasco sauce
1/4 cup lemon juice
1 1/2 tbsp dry mustard
1/4 cup white vinegar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup your favorite blend of brewed Chock full o'Nuts coffee
1/4 cup Worcestershire sauce
Salt & pepper to taste

Directions:

Combine all ingredients in a large saucepan. Bring to a boil stirring constantly, reduce heat and simmer until onions and bell pepper are very tender, about 1 hour. Let cool. Marinate chicken pieces in sauce for at least 4 hours, ideally overnight. Also great on shrimp and chops.

Coffee Cake

Ingredients:

1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder [plus 2-4 tbsp for dusting]
1 1/2 cups brewed Chock full o'Nuts coffee
1/2 cup rum
1 cup unsalted butter, cut into 1-inch pieces
2 cups sugar
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla

Directions:

Preheat oven to 324 degrees F. Butter 10" cake pan well, then dust with 2-4 tablespoons cocoa powder, knocking out the excess.

Heat coffee, rum, butter, and remaining cup cocoa powder in a 3-quart heavy saucepan over moderate heat, whisking, until butter is melted. Remove from heat, then add sugar and whisk until dissolved. Transfer mixture to a large bowl and cool.

While chocolate mixture cools, whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt. Whisk together eggs and vanilla separately, then add to the cooled chocolate mixture until combined well. Add flour mixture and whisk until combined. Pour batter into cake pan and bake until a wooden pick or skewer inserted in center comes out clean, 40 to 50 minutes.

Cool cake completely in pan on a rack, about 2 hours.

Coffee Flan

Ingredients:

3/4 cup sugar
1 (14-oz) can sweetened condensed milk (1 1/4 cups)
3 3/4 cups whole milk
5 large eggs
1 cup brewed Chock full o'Nuts coffee
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/8 teaspoon salt

Directions:

Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Cook sugar in a dry small heavy saucepan over moderate heat until it begins to melt. Continue to cook, stirring occasionally with a fork, until sugar melts into a golden caramel. Immediately pour into a 9-inch round ceramic or glass baking dish or metal cake pan (1 inches deep) and tilt dish to coat bottom. Cool until hardened, 10 to 15 minutes.

Over medium-low heat, reduce the coffee down to 1/3 cup of liquid. Blend this with the remaining ingredients until smooth. Pour this custard through a fine-mesh sieve over caramel in dish, then transfer dish to a 17- by 11-inch roasting pan lined with a kitchen towl. Cover dish loosely with a piece of foil, then pour enough boiling-hot water into roasting pan to reach 1 inch up side of dish. Bake until custard is set but still wobbly in center when gently shaken and a knife inserted in center comes out clean, 1 to 1 1/3 hours. Transfer dish to a rack to cool, 40 minutes. Chill flan, covered, at least 8 hours.