Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, hot chocolate. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Place a frozen chocolate bomb in a cup of steaming hot milk, stir, and voila! Homemade hot chocolate in just a few minutes. Top with whipped cream, marshmallows, chocolate sprinkles, or your favorite toppings.
Hot Chocolate is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Hot Chocolate is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have hot chocolate using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Hot Chocolate:
- Prepare 1 Cinnamon Stick,
- Take High Quality Dark Chocolate Preferably Valrhona 70% Coarsely Chopped, 60g + More For Grating
- Get 1/2 TBSP High Quality Unsweetened Cocoa Powder Preferably Valrhona,
- Prepare 15 g Demerara Sugar,
- Prepare Pinch Cayenne,
- Prepare 177 g Whole Milk,
- Prepare 1/2 TBSP Cornstarch.
- Prepare Pinch Sea Salt,
- Take Marshmallows, For Toasting
Whisk in sugar and cocoa powder and stir until no lumps remain. Stir in chocolate chips and vanilla and cook, stirring occasionally,. Combine the milk, heavy cream, sugar, cocoa powder and a pinch of salt in a medium saucepan. Cook over medium heat, whisking occasionally, until the sugar and cocoa powder dissolve and the milk is.
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 mix is a wintertime staple. A homemade version is delicious and natural—containing only cocoa, sugar, and salt—and especially economical compared with store-bought mixes. Hot chocolate is made with actual chopped up chocolate (like this recipe), whereas hot cocoa is made from cocoa powder. Can you use chocolate bars that are meant for eating? I find it's pretty hit or miss.
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