2023 Author: Anita Thornton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-05-22 03:30
It's cold, it's dark and the days are gray. What's better than a good hot chocolate to soften the gloomy weather? We offer you 10 gourmet hot chocolate recipes to warm your heart.
White Hot Chocolate
Ingredients
- 2 cups (500 ml) 10% cream
- 2 cups (500 ml) of milk
- 4 oz (120 g) white chocolate, chopped
- 1 c. (5 ml) vanilla extract
Preparation
- Heat cream and milk over medium high heat.
- Add white chocolate.
- Stir until the pieces are melted.
- Stir in the vanilla extract.
- Pour into cups and serve immediately.
This recipe is from Dairy Goodness.
Cinnamon Hot Chocolate
Ingredients
- 2 cups (500 ml) 10% cream
- 2 cups (500 ml) of milk
- 4 oz (120 g) dark chocolate, chopped
- 2 cinnamon sticks
Preparation
- Heat the cream, milk and stickscinnamon over medium high heat.
- Remove the cinnamon sticks.
- Add dark chocolate.
- Stir until the pieces are melted.
- Pour into cups and serve immediately and sprinkle with grated cinnamon.
Hot Chocolate Candy Cane
Ingredients
- 4 cups of milk
- 3 squares (1 oz each) semi-sweet chocolate, chopped
- 4 candy canes (+/- 15 cm), crumbled
- 1 cup whipped cream
- 4 small whole candy canes
Preparation
- Heat the milk in a saucepan until it is hot but not boiling.
- Add chopped chocolate and crumbled candy canes and heat, stirring, until melted.
- Serve hot chocolate in 4 mugs and garnish with whipped cream and a small candy cane.
This recipe is from All Recipes.
Hot chocolate with spices
Ingredients
- 1 cinnamon stick, broken into pieces
- 4 star anise
- A few peppercorns
- 1/4 tsp. 1/2 tsp (1.25 ml) ground cardamom
- 1/4 tsp. 1/2 tsp (1.25 ml) Espelette pepper
- 1 c. (15 ml) sugar
- 2 c. (30 ml) cocoa
- 1/4 tsp. (1.25 ml) spice blend (see recipe)
- 2 cups (500 ml) of milk
- 1/2 vanilla pod, split and scraped
- 125 g of72% dark chocolate or a large cup of pastilles
Preparation
- In a coffee grinder, grind the cinnamon, anise stars and pepper.
- In a small bowl, combine the ground spices, cardamom and Espelette pepper.
- In a small bowl, combine sugar, cocoa and spices.
- In a saucepan, bring the milk, cocoa mixture and vanilla to a boil, whisking everything together.
- Remove from heat and stir in chocolate.
- Using the whisk, stir well until smooth.
- Strain the hot chocolate through a sieve before serving.
This recipe is taken from Canal Vie.
Hot Chocolate Ginger
Ingredients
- 2 cups (500 ml) 10% cream
- 2 cups (500 ml) of milk
- 4 oz (120 g) dark or white chocolate, chopped
- 2 c. tablespoons fresh ginger, grated
Preparation
Simmer cream and milk over medium high heat.
- Add chocolate.
- Add ginger.
- Stir until the pieces are melted.
- Strain the hot chocolate through a sieve before serving.
- Pour into cups and serve immediately.
- Serve it all with a traditional gingerbread cookie.
Hot chocolate with fresh mint
Ingredients
- 2 cups (500 ml) 10% cream
- 2 cups(500 ml) milk
- 4 oz (120 g) dark or white chocolate, chopped
- 10 to 12 washed mint leaves
Preparation
- Simmer cream and milk over medium high heat.
- Add chocolate.
- Stir until the pieces are melted.
- Add mint leaves.
- Infuse for 15 minutes.
- Remove the mint leaves.
- Pour into cups and serve immediately.
Nutella Hot Chocolate
Ingredients
- 2 cups (500 ml) 10% cream
- 2 cups (500 ml) of milk
- 4 oz (120 g) dark chocolate, chopped
- 1 c. Nutella
Preparation
- Simmer cream and milk over medium high heat.
- Add chocolate.
- Add Nutella.
- Stir until chocolate chunks and Nutella are melted.
- Pour into cups and serve immediately.
Orange Hot Chocolate
Ingredients
- 2 cups (500 ml) 10% cream
- 2 cups (500 ml) of milk
- 4 oz (120 g) dark or white chocolate, chopped
- 1 c. orange essence
- 1 c. orange zest to garnish
Preparation
- Simmer the cream and milk over medium-high heat.
- Add chocolate.
- Add orange essence.
- Shuffle untilchocolate pieces are melted.
- Pour into cups, sprinkle with orange zest and serve immediately.
Hot chocolate with Espelette pepper
Ingredients
- 2 cups (500 ml) 10% cream
- 2 cups (500 ml) of milk
- 4 oz (120 g) dark chocolate, chopped
- 2 pinches of Espelette pepper powder (or more)
Preparation
- Simmer cream and milk over medium high heat.
- Add chocolate.
- Add the Espelette pepper.
- Stir until the chocolate pieces are melted.
- Pour into cups and serve immediately.
Viennese hot chocolate
Ingredients
- 2 cups (500 ml) 10% cream
- 2 cups (500 ml) of milk
- 4 oz (120 g) dark or white chocolate, chopped
- Whipped cream
Preparation
- Simmer cream and milk over medium high heat.
- Add chocolate.
- Stir until the chocolate pieces are melted.
- Pour into cups.
- Add whipped cream on top.
- Sprinkle with chocolate shavings, cinnamon or granulated sugar (optional).
- Serve.
