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[Anonymous No.15813500]

How do I make the perfect hot chocolate?

[Anonymous No.15813515]

>>15813500
1 Serving:

Two tablespoons of Cacao powder
Equal parts sugar or other sweetener (I like syrup, the molasses give it a bit more depth)
A few shakes of cayenne

Mix thouroghly, bring milk to a near boil on the stove then pour into cup with the mix.

[Anonymous No.15813535]

>>15813515
I heard powder is inferior to chocolate flakes

[Anonymous No.15813549]

>>15813515
>A few shakes of cayenne
Ohai chef john. I really like your videos!

[Anonymous No.15813553]

>chopped bar of dark chocolate
>cocoa powder
>whole milk
>instant coffee

[Anonymous No.15813636]

4 cups milk
3 tbsp cacao powder
2 tbsp maple syrup or honey
4 oz semi-sweet chocolate (finely chopped)
1/2 tsp vanilla extract

[Anonymous No.15813656]

>>15813515
Why cayenne?

[Anonymous No.15813666]

>>15813656
I forget the specifics of how it works, but the Capscasin in it somehow interacts with the Cocoa and helps amp up the chocolate flavor.

[Anonymous No.15813670]

>>15813500
Whatever you use as your chocolate base, powder, syrup whatever. Doesn't matter. Just make sure you add a tiny amount of liquid to it, like a tablespoon of milk, and mush it together to make a paste. Then add the rest of your milk/water/whatever you use. It'll ensure that the cocoa spreads evenly throughout the drink. Works best with hot drinks, dunno how good it is for cold cocoa.

[Anonymous No.15813677]

>>15813656
It is tradition

[Anonymous No.15813779]

>>15813666
I'll give it a shot, thanks Satan

[Anonymous No.15813796]

On the note of chocolate.
I've recently discovered an old recipe for chocolate syrup and I've got my filthy mits on some flavour oils. Would combining the two be a good idea?

Oil flavours are: Cherry, Key lime, Strawberry, and Raspberry.

[Anonymous No.15813801]

>>15813796
Cherry chocolate is like mhhhhmmm

[Anonymous No.15813826]

No matter what, the secret ingredient is always cornstarch.

[Anonymous No.15813877]

Malted milk powder OP. Also you really need a blender to ensure complete homogenization and dissolved the sweetener & chocolate solutes.

[Anonymous No.15814485]

>>15813553
This. Hot chocolate with a hint of coffee is really nice.

[Anonymous No.15815423]

Rosemary sprig in there while heating the milk.

[Anonymous No.15815618]

Who the hell drinks hot chocolate? Just have a milk

[QA Fag No.15815620]

>>15815423
lol gross are you that rosemary pear pie freak

[Anonymous No.15816721]

>>15813515
How much milk for two tbsp of cocoa ?

[Anonymous No.15817021]

>>15813515
>A few shakes of cayenne
Thanks for the tip mate. Just tried it and it's pretty great.

[Anonymous No.15817081]

>>15815618
Chocolate milk nowadays is just sugar milk with a drop of cocoa. It's not that nice.

[Anonymous No.15818284]

>>15815618
>banana milk
sounds dleicious. w2c?

[Anonymous No.15818296]

>>15818284
From the junk food fridge section of your supermarket, with the iced coffee and flavoured drinking yoghurts and milks.
Otherwise Nesquik Banana if you can find it. They stopped selling it in Australia a few years ago and now you can't get Banana milk powder anywhere.

[Anonymous No.15818299]

>>15818296
>tfw only able to shop at the military commissary for the next week
god i hope they have it there bros

[Anonymous No.15818321]

>>15816721
No milk, he's an American.

[Anonymous No.15819016]

Any recipes for us lactose intolerant bros?

[Anonymous No.15819241]

wouldn't it be best to melt a chocolate bar into milk

[Anonymous No.15819245]

>>15819016
Doesn't goat milk have low lactose ?

[Anonymous No.15819282]

Be fat

[Anonymous No.15819415]

>>15815618
shut up tastelet

[Anonymous No.15819517]

>>15813666
Just tried it, it tastes like normal hot chocolate but spicy. Just like I thought, it's a fucking meme. Thanks satan.

[Anonymous No.15819608]

>>15819016
Lactose free milk, which is just normal milk but tastes a little sweeter and "weird".
Or get some lactase tablets if your country let's you

[Anonymous No.15819624]

It's not hot chocolate weather anymore so who cares.

[Anonymous No.15820093]

>>15819624
Maybe not for you, it's just beginning here

[Anonymous No.15820324]

1 cup of milk
Half a cup of heavy whipping cream
2 tbsp of alkalized cocoa powder
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 shakes of corn starch
Dash of cayenne
Dash of cinnamon
Add sugar to your liking, I generally do a 1/4th of a cup
Do this all over a medium/low heat until it’s cohesive, then remove from heat, add 1-2 squares of your favorite chocolate bar (I use ghirardelli 72% dark chocolate)
Add a dash of salt at the end, stir, pour into your mug, and add a few marshmallows, moreso if you didn’t add sugar so the sweetness balanced out the flavor.

[Anonymous No.15820385]

>>15819624
True, but sometimes the occasion does come up. On a particularly rainy day with overcast skies and what not it’s not a bad treat to have.

By the same logic people should only have certain pies when fruit is ripe, and never eat ice cream if it’s under 90 degrees

[kemseerminkælling No.15820425]

>>15813796
cherry

[Anonymous No.15821343]

>>15819624
I actually have hot chocolate more in Spring and Autumn than winter.

[Anonymous No.15822613]

I just drink basic ones so I don't have much to add, except for a few things that I've noticed recipes tend not to mention:

>mixing the cocoa
If you're using cocoa powder DO NOT just fucking toss it into the hot milk, it will clump like mad and be a massive pain in the ass. Instead, heat the milk, mix the dry stuff in the mug, pour hot milk over the dry. Moreover, pour a little bit in first and mix (you want just enough liquid to make a slurry/paste), then the rest of the milk.

>'dash' of salt
The amount matters. I've found 0.2g is good, 0.1g is too little, and 'dash' means nothing to me. Fuck off, who knows what that means. If you don't want to measure by weight like an autist, just experiment and note how much you put in, and try gradually increasing it until you get good results.

>le '1/16tsp' vanilla extract
Again fuck off, you can put quite a bit more in and it's great. Hell, I can't even reliably pour that little in anyway.

t. likes hot chocolate

[Anonymous No.15822623]

Cinnamon makes hot cock o latte perfect.

[Anonymous No.15823679]

OP asked for Hot Chocolate, any recipe that only has cocoa powder is Hot Cocoa and can gtfo

[Anonymous No.15824568]

>>15813500
>20 cl milk
>7.5 cl cream
>1/2 to a full spoon of sugar
>50g chocolate

That's the most basic chocolate you can make, and a good starting point once you wanna explore variants.