Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, hot chocolate. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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.
Hot Chocolate is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Hot Chocolate is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook hot chocolate using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Hot Chocolate:
- Get 1 Cinnamon Stick,
- Take High Quality Dark Chocolate Preferably Valrhona 70% Coarsely Chopped, 60g + More For Grating
- Make ready 1/2 TBSP High Quality Unsweetened Cocoa Powder Preferably Valrhona,
- Get 15 g Demerara Sugar,
- Prepare Pinch Cayenne,
- Prepare 177 g Whole Milk,
- Take 1/2 TBSP Cornstarch.
- Prepare Pinch Sea Salt,
- Make ready Marshmallows, For Toasting
Regardless how you make it, I think whipped cream makes hot chocolate (or anything really) better. Feel free to use an extract such as vanilla or anise to flavor the whipped cream. 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.
Instructions to make Hot Chocolate:
- In a sauce pot over medium heat, add in cinnamon stick. - - Lightly toast until aromatic. - - Add in chocolate, cocoa powder, sugar, cayenne and a splash of milk.
- Lightly whisk to combine well and until the chocolate starts to melt. - - While that's happening, in a small bowl, add cornstarch and a splash of milk. - - Stir to combine well. This will be the slurry. Set aside. - - When the chocolate has completely melted, gradually pour in the rest of the milk while still whisking.
- Once everything has incorporated well, whisk in the slurry. - - Whisk until well combined. - - Lastly, add salt. Give it a final whisk. - - Remove from heat and drain thru a fine strainer over a serving glass.
- You can toast your marshmallow with a blow torch or under a broiler. Be sure your serving glass is heat or oven proof. - - But I prefer toasting my marshmallow under a broiler smoked with charcoal. - - What I did was burned some charcoal on the stove, placed the charcoal in a heat-proof bowl and wacked into the oven the same time as broiling the marshmallow.
- Once the marshmallow is charred, remove from oven. - - Grate some more dark chocolate over the top. - - Serve immediately.
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.
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