Hot Chocolate Recipe | Homemade Hot Chocolate Recipe

Creamy and Luxurious Hot Chocolate which is a Hug in a Mug. Comforting warm chocolate drink during cold winter season or simply to lift upto your mood on a depressing day. You’ll love every sip of this smooth hot chocolate drink. Learn make with step-by-step instructions and video.

Hot Chocolate Recipe 

Creamy Hot chocolate is a drink which you’d crave on a rainy or a chilly winter day. This cozy drink is pure bliss in every sip similar to my ginger milk. Making a delicious hot chocolate needs just milk, sugar and chocolate. So simple as that!

About Hot Chocolate Recipe

Hot chocolate is a well-liked winter beverage and just warms your soul. A terrific hot chocolate recipe needs not aside from a good quality chocolate. The upper the chocolate quality, you get to taste pure creamy decadent hot chocolate.

I liked to spruce up my hot chocolate with a touch of cinnamon. You possibly can either use cinnamon stick or a pinch of cinnamon powder. The mild flavour of cinnamon coming through the drink may be very nice. In case you do not like cinnamon you may skip it completely. Want a lightweight boozy hot chocolate, you may add a splash of rum or brandy.

Why You Will Love this Recipe?

• Easy, Fast, Efficient & Completely Fail Proof.
• Wealthy, Creamy & Decadent Hot Chocolate.
• Easy to Follow & Customise to your taste.

Hot Cocoa Vs Hot Chocolate

Hot cocoa and Hot chocolate may sound similar but each has their very own distinct taste. Fast Hot cocoa is what you get as premix from shops. Normally it’s made with cocoa powder, powdered sugar, milk powder and sometimes it has a touch of cornstarch. Even when you must try at home, you’ll make it with cocoa powder fairly than real chocolate.

Alternatively, Hot chocolate is dark, wealthy and decadent made with good chocolate (preferably couverture chocolate), milk and a touch of sugar. Couverture incorporates the next content of cocoa butter. The added cocoa butter allows for couverture chocolate to melt faster, making it easier to work with in recipes like hot chocolate.

Love this recipe, then why not check my Homemade Dark Chocolate, Hot Chocolate Ice cream & White Hot Chocolate Recipe too.

Video for the Best Hot Chocolate Recipe

Ingredients for Making Hot Chocolate

Style of Chocolate

As mentioned above the taste of a very good cup of hot chocolate is dependent upon the standard of chocolate you utilize. Couverture chocolate is really useful due to their high content of cocoa butter. The added cocoa butter allows for couverture chocolate to melt faster, and creates a creamy texture to your hot chocolate. You may select to make use of compound chocolate because it has added vegetable oil as emulsifier which in turns helps with the creaminess.

Milk Options

Full fat milk is preferred. But for those who are lactose intolerant or vegan. You possibly can go for any plant based milk of alternative. Listed here are my recipes for Homemade Almond Milk, Oat Milk, Soy Milk. Even a splash of double cream is added with milk for creaminess. I prefer my hot chocolate to be made with only milk.

Sweetener to Select

Plain refined sugar gives the required amount of sweetness with none added flavours. But Honey, Agave nectar or Maple syrup could be used.

Optional Ingredients

Ingredients like cinnamon, vanilla, peppermint extract, coconut extracts, alcohol of alternative is added for extra flavours.

Pro Suggestions for Making Hot Chocolate

• Using the Best Quality Chocolate is the Key
• Don’t let the milk boil over. heat gently on medium heat.
• Infuse hot chocolate along with your favourite flavours.
• Toppings will not be essential but you should use marshmallows for topping.

Make Hot Chocolate (Stepwise Photos)

1)Take milk in a sauce pan and warmth it till it involves a simmering point where you may see steam coming out of the pan. Don’t let it boil.

2)Add in good quality chocolate. You possibly can prefer so as to add chocolate chips or chopped chocolate.

3)The chocolate will begin to melt with the warmth of the milk. Now add in a touch of ground cinnamon.

4)Add sugar or honey to taste.

5)I wish to add in a splash of vanilla extract.

6)Mix the recent chocolate very well. Thats it.

7)Pour hot chocolate in serving glass and luxuriate in.

8)Warm, cozy, hot chocolate is completed.

Variations & Flavour Ideas

I actually have compiled all of the variations I actually have done with the classic hot chocolate recipe on this post. It will provide you with more ideas how you may take essentially the most “Humble Hot Chocolate” to the subsequent level.

Cafe Style Hot Chocolate

When you finish making hot chocolate. Take an immersion blender and mix the recent chcoolate for a very good 30 seconds or so. This step gives the creamy-dreamy texture to your hot chocolate and makes it cafe style!

Mocha Hot Cocoa Recipe

If I need a straightforward chocolate drink for breakfast but I can never skip my morning coffee, that is my “Mocha Hot Cocoa” . Mix 1 tsp cocoa powder, 2 tsp brown sugar, 1 tsp easy espresso powder in a serving mug. Add 2 tbsp of hot milk and use an electrical milk frother to combine. Pour more hot milk and serve immediately.

Peppermint Hot Chocolate

That is my go to drink once I feel up against the weather. cozy peppermint hot chocolate is ideal during christmas season.

Make Hot Chocolate Powder (Fast Mix)

Don’t need to undergo all the difficulty. Then make a jar of this easy hot chocolate mix and have it handy. All you would like is boil it with hot milk, pour and luxuriate in!

This makes an important edible christmas gift in your family members. Here is the way you make it.

• 1.5 cup milk powder
• ¾ cup powdered sugar
• ½ cup cocoa powder
• 2 tsp cornstarch

Mix every little thing together and store in an air tight container. For making hot chocolate, mix 3 tblsp of hot chocolate mix with 1 cup (240 ml) of water or milk and whisk well. Cook on low heat for two to three mins. Enjoy with some marshmallows on top or peppermint stick.

Incessantly Asked Questions

How long does hot chocolate last?

Hot chocolate taste its best when made fresh and served hot. Leftover hot chocolate drink could be stored in fridge. When serving, heat gently in a sauce pan till it gets warm and luxuriate in.

What toppings can we add in hot chocolate?

Hot chocolate taste great plain and straightforward by itself. But whipped cream, crushed peppermint candy, mini marshmallows, candy cane will add an extravagant touch to the classic beverage.

What to serve with hot chocolate?

Hot chocolate is generally served by itself. But for those who are hosting a celebration and need to serve some snack. I suggest to make a dessert platter which has not so sweet cakes and cookies like gingerbread cake, ginger honey cookies, gingerbread cookies, chocolate treacle cake and snickerdoodle cookies.

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