Hot Chocolate

[CurtisB81]

As anyone made Hot chocolate from real chocolate and not a mix ?

Ive done hot white chocolate using 28gs of chips per cup of hot whole milk..

 

[Mick]

Double boiler?

 

[DEATHMgck]

Ive tried a couple tomes but Swiss Moss was always better.

You could probably blame the cook for that one though.

 

[ajkel64]

No, I have always used a mix. Care to share your method?

 

[CurtisB81]

Hot white chocolate
27-28g chocolate chips per cup of milk

An dash of salt

Drop or two of vanilla bean extract

Add the chips to a cup hot whole milk..Mix until melted and the salt and add the vanilla bean extract..

I wonder if you could do the same with dark chocolate

 

[ronald90]

My go-to method of making hot chocolate is the Paris/Cafe Angelina style recipe. In terms of quality and commercialisation, powders are the cartridge razors of the hot chocolate world and the Cafe Angelina style is a premium traditional razor. The below method blows powders out of the water and has always impressed people I have made it for. The reaction from people used to powdered hot chocolate who taste this for the first time is pretty special, just like someone used to instant coffee trying freshly ground whole bean coffee for the first time (or a cartridge razor user getting a first professional straight-razor shave at a barbers)

The basic jist of it is this:

Per 1 cup of hot chocolate:

40-70g of dark chocolate (70% cocoa solids minimum), this amount is variable depending on your personal tastes; some like using a lot of dark chocolate, some find it too rich. I've seen some recipes go up to 120-130g, which in my experience is too much
3/4 cup (~180ml) whole milk
1/4 cup (60ml) double cream/heavy cream
1 tsp icing/confectioners sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract or 1/4 vanilla pod beans
tiny pinch of sea salt (0.5- 1g, definitely no more than 1g)

optional : 1/2 tsp raw cocoa powder, Cafe Angelina use some special blend of raw cocoas that they keep secret like the KFC Colonel's special blend of herbs and spices. We can only guess at what they do because they'll never tell us.

1. Heat milk and cream mixture to the point where it just starts to bubble up
2. Quickly remove it from the heat (otherwise the milk/cream mix will bubble over the pan and spill)
3. Add chocolate, vanilla extract/beans, cocoa powder if using it, and sugar, stir on low heat until chocolate is all melted and the whole thing thickens up nicely.
4. Add salt and mix



Some variations on this:
Recipes: Angelina Hot Chocolate

French Hot Chocolate

French Hot Chocolate - European Style Hot Chocolate

Hot white chocolate
27-28g chocolate chips per cup of milk

An dash of salt

Drop or two of vanilla bean extract

Add the chips to a cup hot whole milk..Mix until melted and the salt and add the vanilla bean extract..

I wonder if you could do the same with dark chocolate

Yes you can, this ends up being similar to the Paris style hot chocolate

 

[CurtisB81]

Same way in Mexico?

 

[ronald90]

Same way in Mexico?

I'm not too familiar with Mexican style hot chocolate (Mexican cooking is something on my cooking 'to do' learning list) but I think it's also pretty similar to the Paris version except the Mexican style also adds spices in it like a bit of chilli powder

 

[Little Joe from Mexico]

Yes. It's that time of year.

 

[YouYou]

Hello,

When my daughter wants her hot chocolate, there is no time to do a "real" one


Take care
YouYou

 

[Daiķon]

Yes. It's that time of year.

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That is the best! If not you want a cheap way to try it you can always get abualita if you are in the us.