Kaileigh has had acid reflux since she was born and was put on Zantac
syrup at 5 months. Back then it was easy to medicate her. Squirt the
liquid into a bottle with a bit of milk and she was good to go.
Jump forward to 18 months and we have a toddler that hates the minty nasty
syrup. Seriously, what toddler likes mint? We tried different flavors
available at the pharmacy and they were all bad. I tried sucking up Tang into the
syringe but still yucky. Then we tried mixing it with chocolate milk.
Behold the power of chocolate!

Kaileigh is now 4, she knows the meds are in the chocolate milk, and still
she drinks it down like a trooper. I was never happy with the chocolate syrups
or powders on the market. So I started using Alton Brown's chocolate sauce recipe. Love it.
Jump forward a bit more and you have a 4yr old that loves to help me cook.
I double the batch usually. Today, I was busy trying to answer questions
that were spewing forth from Kaileigh. Before I knew it, I had dumped in
waaaay too much cocoa powder. Grab your buckets people and stop on by. I
have a vat of chocolate sauce sitting here cooling. If you are too far
away to stop on by then make up your own sauce.

Alton's Chocolate Sauce to the rescue

1 1/2 cups water
3 cups sugar
1 1/2 cups Dutch-processed cocoa
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
2 tablespoons light corn syrup

In a small pot, bring water and sugar to a boil and whisk in cocoa,
vanilla, salt, and corn syrup. Whisk until all of the solids have
dissolved. Reduce sauce until slightly thickened. Strain if needed and cool to room
temperature. Alton says to put it into a squeeze bottle but I like just using one of my pint canning jars.