Hot Chocolate!
Hot Chocolate Stirrer !
Three hot chocolate recipes for you to try at home.
Dark Spiced Hot Chocolate
The is made with water instead of milk, as the Aztecs, Mayans and Incas, would have made their drinks with water. Here’s the recipe:
1 litre water
200g of 70% Colombian chocolate
8 crushed cardamom pods
¼ tsp chili powder
¼ tsp sweet cinnamon powder
40g cocoa powder
25g Muscovado sugar
25g Honey
Place honey, sugar, and cocoa powder in a saucepan and bring to a boil while whisking. Add the spices and allow them to infuse for a few minutes. Then add the dark chocolate and whisk until blended. Serve warm.
Milk Spiced Hot Chocolate
25g Honey
25g Muscovado sugar
40 g Cocoa powder
1 litre of water
200g of 34% milk chocolate or oat milk chocolate
2 Cardamom pods
½ tsp chilli
1 heaped tsp sweet cinnamon powder or 3 sticks
Place honey, sugar, cocoa powder in a saucepan and bring to boil using a Molinillo or whisk, add the spices and allow to infuse for a few minutes. Then add the milk chocolate and whisk till blended. Serve the drink warm. For a dairy-free option use oat milk chocolate.
Hot Chocolate Stick
200g milk or dark chocolate
Marshmallows
Equipment
Silicone ice cube moulds
Card straws or a wooden stick or spoon
Melt the chocolate slowly in the microwave on low, taking out and stirring every 30 seconds until melted. To see if the chocolate is in temper place some on your spoon and then tap on your lip. It should feel slightly cooler than your lip. If you do not have a microwave you can melt the chocolate in a bowl over a pan of water. Once the water comes to boil remove from the heat and place the chocolate in a bowl. The steam will slowly melt the chocolate, keep stirring. Once 2/3 is melted remove the bowl from the saucepan and keep mixing until the remaining chocolate has melted. Repeat the process to check if the chocolate feels cold to your lip which will tell you the chocolate is in temper, roughly 29-30C.
Pour the chocolate into a piping bag and pipe into silicone moulds, then add sticks once it starts to set. Decorate with marshmallows. Chill to set. Delicious with hot milk at bedtime.