What's the best Hot Chocolate you've ever had?!
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In a small bar next to our hotel in Lake Garda. Pure liquid chocolate, vanilla and cream and brandy, topped with whipped cream and marshmallow with chocolate curls on top. To die for and I have never tasted one like it since. It was worth every penny of the 8 euros!!
This one
Creamy hot chocolate
Ingredients
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
3/4 cup white sugar
1 pinch salt
1/3 cup boiling water
3 1/2 cups milk
3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup half & half or cream
Method
Combine the cocoa, sugar and pinch of salt in a saucepan. Blend in the boiling water. Bring mixture to an easy boil stirring constantly. Simmer and stir 2 minutes ensuring that the mixture doesn't scorch.
Stir in 3 1/2 cups of milk and heat until very hot and just about to simmer (never boil milk)
Remove from heat and add vanilla. Divide between mugs and top each with some of the half & half or cream or whip the cream and dollop it on top.
I used to live in France. A very small town in Normandy called Ver sur Mer. In the town center is a boulangerie where the lady makes the most amazing cakes, cookies and desserts. It was a really cold day and I had been walking my dog. We were chilled so we went into the shop. She made me this amazing Chocolat à l'Ancienne (old fashioned chocolate). She even heated a bowl of Normandy cream for my dog. Before I came back to the US she gave me the recipe. I live in the Northeast so I make it often in the fall and winter.
28 fl. oz. Whole Milk
7 oz. Unsweetened Baking Chocolate
1 cup Crème Fra?che (or heavy cream)
1/3 cup Granulated Sugar
Pinch of Powdered Vanilla
2 tbsp. Cocoa Powder (for top)
1 1/2 cup Fresh Whipped Cream (for top)
1. Heat up milk, cream, and sugar over a low flame. Bring to a simmer, but don't let it boil.
2. Take off heat and add chocolate (chopped into small pieces) and vanilla. Stir until chocolate melts and it becomes smooth.
3. Pour into mugs and serve with whipped cream and powdered cocoa.
Voilà!
white christmas hot chocolate from whittards, when i was about 10.
my mum put snowman marshmallows in it (it was christmas eve lol)
and i had chocolate chips too, along with those little santa and reindeer biscuits half covered in chocolate :)
The one I have been making every week this winter.
