You know as a kid when you hear the story of the Chocolate River in the Roald Dahl's, 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'. Willy Wonka scoops up a mug of it, and hands it to Charlie, saying something like, 'it looks like you need this'. This hot chocolate recipe is all that you had envisioned in your imagination.
When we get invited over to someone's house, this is what they ask us to bring. The hot chocolate in the photo has a thicker consistency as a lot of chocolate got melted into it when we were capturing the photo. The consistency is thicker than your normal powdered hot chocolate, and it is just devine. Here is the recipe: RECIPE - MAKES 4 TEACUPS 250 gram dark chocolate. We use Whittakers 50% but if you like a less sweet drink go darker! 1 1/2 Cup of full cream milk 1/2 C of cream Optional add ons: Stir in white chocolate, or a creamy milk sante bar to add some sweetness. Whipped cream on top Chilli for some heat Marshmellows on top Melt dark chocolate in microwave. I do 1 minute to start and then 30 second bursts, stirring in between until melted. In the meanwhile I heat milk and cream together in a saucepan until it is hot but not boiling. Add the melted chocolate into the hot milk and cream and stir until mixed in. Add optionals if you want. You can store any unused hot chocolate in the fridge for a few day and reheat when you would like it. In fact we like it better reheated as the ingredients are even more blended together. Of course that is if there is any leftovers.
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We love those chocolate gift boxes you get, with little bits of whiskey or baileys inside chocolate bottles or barrels. Making those alcohol choccies yourself is quite tricky. Making sure the chocolate out of the moulds, are joined just so, with no little holes for the alcohol to run out. Putting the alcohol in via a syringe, then covering up that little hole, we are just not that patient or good at chocolate moulding. What we can make is Chocolate Shot glasses, and Chocolates with alcoholic Jelly Shots inside. Here's how we made our little chocolate party drinks package. For 8 chocolate shot glasses and plenty of choccies, we used a kilo of chocolate. We did a mix of dark and milk chocolate. Though our tastes go towards the milk chocolate side of things in blocks, when it comes to baking and creating we like to go darker. Darker chocolate melts less when holding the shot glasses and it is easier to handle for chocolate molds. Also darker chocolate still has a good chocolate taste when combined with other ingredients, whereas the milk chocolate flavor gets diluted a lot. |
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