Five Food Finds about Chocolate Milk:

• Chocolate milk is a sweetened, usually cold, cocoa-flavored milk drink. It is created when chocolate syrup (or chocolate powder) is mixed with milk (from cows, goats, soy, rice, etc).

• It can be purchased pre-mixed or made at home with either cocoa powder and a sweetener (such as sugar or a sugar substitute), or with melted chocolate, chocolate syrup, or chocolate milk mix.

• Other ingredients, such as starch, salt, carrageenan, vanilla, or artificial flavoring may be added.

• Chocolate milk should be refrigerated like plain milk.

• A suspension is required to blend in the two flavors (milk and chocolate, hence the name of the mixed drink).

Chocolate Milk Bundt Cake

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Prep                  Cook                    Yield
        15 min               50 min              1 Bundt Cake
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INGREDIENTS

• 1 3/4 cups all purpose flour
• 1/4 cup cocoa powder
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, melted
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 4 large eggs
• 2 cups granulated sugar
• 1 cup a2 Milk® Chocolate 2% Reduced Fat Milk
• 1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
• powdered sugar, for dusting

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat the oven to 325°F. Adjust an oven rack to the middle position. Grease and flour a 12-cup Bundt cake pan.

2. In a small bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt until smooth.

3. In an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, combine eggs and sugar on medium-high speed for 3 minutes, until the mixture triples in size. Add the melted butter and vanilla extract, whisking until well combined.

4. Add the dry ingredients and start mixing. Slowly add the a2 Milk® Chocolate 2% Reduced Fat Milk, whisking until smooth. Fold in chocolate chips.

5. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 50 to 60 minutes. Cake is done when a toothpick inserted in the center should come out clean, with a few crumbs attached.<

6. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes before inverting onto a cooling rack or serving plate to cool completely. Dust cake with powdered sugar and serve!