Hot Chocolate

How to Making Recipes Hot Chocolate using 10 ingredients and 8 steps

Hot Chocolate - This is a delicious, dairy free hot chocolate that is easy to make and taste just like traditional dairy hot chocolate. I used coconut-almond milk mix for a coconut taste, but you could definitely use any non-dairy milk. Ree makes sweet and rich hot chocolate for a family gathering by the fire. The Best Homemade Hot Chocolate Recipe. I've tried several versions of hot chocolate.

Dutch cocoa takes the cake in my opinion but the others come in a close second.

Then I've used different milks (different percentages of fat, dairy and non-dairy).

You can have Hot Chocolate using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients make Hot Chocolate

1. Prepare 1 cup full cream milk.
2. It's 1 cup cream.
3. You need 4 tsp milk powder.
4. Prepare 6 tsp unsweetened cocoa powder.
5. It's 1/4 bar dark chocolate.
6. It's 1/4 tsp vanilla essence.
7. Prepare 4 tsp Nutella(optional).
8. Prepare 1 inch cinnamon stick(optional).
9. Prepare 1 pinch salt.
10. It's as needed Sugar(if you’re not adding Nutella).

Hot Chocolate instructions

1. In a saucepan, combine milk, milk powder and cream and warm it up on low heat. Put in the cinnamon stick for it to release some flavour..
2. Add bits of dark chocolate(the more the cocoa content, the darker it’ll get) and cocoa powder in a bowl, and add in one tablespoon of the hot milk in the saucepan to it. Mix with a whisk and ensure that there are no lumps..
3. Now slowly pour the contents of the bowl into the saucepan and keep stirring..
4. Add the vanilla and you’ll gradually see that the mixture will start to thicken. That’s because of the milk powder and cocoa powder. However, if it is not thick enough as per your choice, then in a separate bowl, mix 1/2 tsp cornstarch and 2 tsp water and then add this to the saucepan. This will thicken it immediately..
5. After simmering for around 10 minutes, you can remove the cinnamon stick..
6. Add Nutella to the saucepan now. This is what I used as the sweetener. However, if unavailable, simply replace it with 3-4 tsp of regular white sugar..
7. Add a tiny pinch of salt to the mixture and you’re rich, creamy and delicious hot chocolate is ready to serve. Top it up with some marshmallows or with s’mores, or enjoy it as it is..
8. Pro-Tip: I chose to get a hint of cinnamon in the hot chocolate but you can easily replace it with star anise and it’ll taste equally good. If you have an adventurous palate, then I’the recommend adding a bit of ginger and/or red chilli powder(a very tiny pinch). You can spike it up, too, with either Baileys or rum..

Hot Chocolate - Once dolloped onto your drink a small sprinkling of nuts, cocoa powder, or ground spices is a great way to add flavor and pump up. Hot chocolate, also known as drinking chocolate, cocoa, and as chocolate tea in Nigeria, is a heated drink consisting of shaved chocolate, melted chocolate or cocoa powder, heated milk or water, and usually a sweetener. Hot chocolate may be topped with whipped cream or marshmallows. Hot chocolate made with melted chocolate is sometimes called drinking chocolate, characterized by less sweetness. Hot chocolate vs cocoa: What's the difference? Hot chocolate is made with actual chopped up chocolate (like this recipe), whereas hot cocoa is made from cocoa powder. Featuring a wide range of desserts, as well as lunch and brunch. Thank you and good luck