Berry Merry Christmas from Iraq

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas from Amy and myself. Here is a little holiday recipe we thought we would share with you all. Enjoy
Merry Christmas.

Berry Merry Christmas
1 packet of hot cocoa mix
1 teaspoon or tablespoon of raspberry syrup
1 peppermint candy unless you like more
1 dollop (is that a word still used today?) of whipped cream, or just use the canned stuff
1 stick of cinnamon (I find them in the arts and crafts section of Wal-Mart)
Chocolate shavings
Oh yeah, hot water
Make hot cocoa according to the package, unless you have a better method, in which case, make it that way. My way uses hot water and a spoon. Once you have congratulated yourself for making hot cocoa and drinking half of it, make another one. Put a peppermint candy into the cocoa, it will melt, but they usually make really cool popping sounds as the crack. Find a spoon and pour raspberry syrup in it. You can even use the same spoon you stirred the cocoa with. After tasting the syrup and refilling the spoon, mix it in the cocoa. Take another spoon unless no one is looking and scoop up some whipped cream, I like Cool Whip. Place it on top of the hot cocoa. If you find a can of whipped cream, see how much you can put into your mouth, if you have some left over, put it on the cocoa. You don’t have to do this if you have already put whipped cream on it, I do though, can’t have too much. Find a stick of cinnamon, I found that it is much better than using any ordinary stick and put it into the cocoa as well. If you are like me, you will be making chocolate shavings at this point because you ate the ones you made earlier. Just use a cheese grater and a chocolate bar and scrape it over the whipped topping. If you aren’t full, enjoy the Berry Merry Christmas that you just made.