Name: Chocolate Coffee BBQ Meatballs
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 5 h
Total time: 5 h 5 min
Yield: 24
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 small onion (diced); 4 cloves large garlic (minced); 2 tablespoons chili powder; 1 tablespoon ground cumin; 1 teaspoon ground coriander; 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon; 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder; 1 teaspoon smoked sweet paprika; 1 cup plain tomato sauce; 1/2 cup Honey; 1 cup brewed Coffee; 1/2 cup red wine vinegar; 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce; 1/4 cup molasses; 1 tablespoon yellow mustard; 2 tablespoons brown sugar; 1 bag of frozen meatballs

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[intro]Chocolate Coffee BBQ Meatballs is a sweet and spicy cocktail meatballs. The bbq sauce ingredients include chocolate and coffee! These unique bbq meatballs will be the hit of any party![/intro]

Cocktail Meatballs

Cocktail meatballs are very simple to make. I have done another version of cocktail meatballs with my Cherry Spiced Meatballs. If you want an easy appetizer, you can not go wrong with some type of bbq meatballs.

Hershey Recipes

I like to make recipes that you would not expect. Which is why I have wanted to do a savory chocolate dish. Drawing inspiration from Hershey recipes, I am from Pennsylvania after all.

Hotel Hershey does some amazing savory chocolate dishes like the famous chocolate dusted scallops! So it was inspiration like those types of Hershey recipes that inspired the bbq sauce ingredients for these cocktail meatballs.

BBQ Sauce Ingredients

Chocolate and a coffee rub are actually not that unusual for bbq sauce ingredients. You have the sweet and savory going on in the BBQ with those ingredients. So why not take those bbq sauce ingredients and make unique bbq meatballs!

Coffee Rub

How did a coffee rub inspire these cocktail meatballs? Honestly, it was a coffee rub beef roast that made me think, why not add a little coffee to the BBQ sauce! You do after all add chocolate to coffee so why not!

BBQ Meatballs

So how does the coffee and chocolate as bbq sauce ingredients taste? Honestly, they taste amazing in these bbq meatballs! I know this isn’t one of the official Hershey recipes, but should be.

Do you want to make a splash at a party? You should make these bbq meatballs. They really are a crowd pleaser!

Recommended Hershey Recipes From Other Food Bloggers:

HERSHEY’S “PERFECTLY CHOCOLATE” CHOCOLATE CAKE Tastes Better From Scratch
chocolate kiss cakelets from Tori Avery
HERSHEY KISS S’MORES COOKIES from Like Mother Like Daughter

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Yield: 24 servings