Delicious Hot Chocolate
http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2011/12/delicious-hot-chocolate/
I love hot chocolate and really can’t be trusted around it.
Here are a few varieties I whipped up recently.
(If you’d like a late-afternoon/adult version, splash brandy or other booze into any of the varieties below.)
(But you didn’t hear that from me.)
BASIC HOT CHOCOLATE
Add 2 cups of milk and 2 cups of half-and-half to a small saucepan. As you can see, this wasn’t my first batch of hot chocolate that day.
As I said, can’t be trusted.
Oh, and I’m sorry about the whole half-and-half thing. But delicious hot chocolate is my life, and half-and-half is one of the more direct routes to hot chocolate.
Warm the milk mixture over medium-low heat, then add a cup of good semi-sweet chocolate chips.
Stir it around, making sure it doesn’t get too hot…and that’s it for the basic hot chocolate concoction! If it’s too chocolatey for you, splash in 1/2 cup to a cup more milk. If it’s not quite sweet enough for you, add about 1 teaspoon of sugar and even a little vanilla extract.
I love hot chocolate using chocolate chips. Even though it melts and becomes part of the milk, there are also very small particles of chocolate throughout. Packs a punch.
I love hot chocolate and really can’t be trusted around it.
Here are a few varieties I whipped up recently.
(If you’d like a late-afternoon/adult version, splash brandy or other booze into any of the varieties below.)
(But you didn’t hear that from me.)
BASIC HOT CHOCOLATE
Add 2 cups of milk and 2 cups of half-and-half to a small saucepan. As you can see, this wasn’t my first batch of hot chocolate that day.
As I said, can’t be trusted.
Oh, and I’m sorry about the whole half-and-half thing. But delicious hot chocolate is my life, and half-and-half is one of the more direct routes to hot chocolate.
Warm the milk mixture over medium-low heat, then add a cup of good semi-sweet chocolate chips.
Stir it around, making sure it doesn’t get too hot…and that’s it for the basic hot chocolate concoction! If it’s too chocolatey for you, splash in 1/2 cup to a cup more milk. If it’s not quite sweet enough for you, add about 1 teaspoon of sugar and even a little vanilla extract.
I love hot chocolate using chocolate chips. Even though it melts and becomes part of the milk, there are also very small particles of chocolate throughout. Packs a punch.
