Food, Jarrin
Six Best Homemade Hot Chocolate Recipes
Six Best Cocoa Recipes
I enjoy a nice cup of hot cocoa and recently I came upon some fun recipes. Six great blends I use all the time, plus I can package up and easily give as gifts. It is always nice to give a gift of variety. Just makes it kinda special. Each one of these you can add more or less of any ingredient depending on your taste buds.
Adding a bit of the herb on top of your whipping cream gives your mug a touch of love too if you are serving to a guest.
I hope you find them fun to make! SOOO yummy! Starwest is amazing and offers FREE shipping which I have on the links. The cute sweater mugs you can find here.
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The Base: 3…2…1
3 Cups confection sugar (powdered…I have to say that because I get these mixed up sometimes…HA!)
2 Cups Powdered Milk
1 Cup Cacao Powder Organic
Sift sugar and cacao powder then add powdered milk
Place in sealed mason jar and Label
TIP: If you like malted milk flavoring you could add malt powder too
Now that you have the base you can play with these fun recipes! The syrups I like to have on hand for a splash of sweetness but also like to add it to my teas instead of honey. They do add to hot chocolate bars too!
Mexican Hot Chocolate
This has been a popular one. You can get the KICK without the cayenne, but cayenne is good for you so why not!
1 cup of base hot cocoa
1 tsp of fresh cinnamon powder
1/2 grated Organic Nutmeg
pinch of cayenne pepper (optional)
1/8 tsp sea salt
Lovely Lavender
1 cup of base
2 Tablespoons Lavender flowers Crushed in Mortar Pestle
1/8 tsp sea salt
Lavender and Chocolate are VERY wonderful combinations! If you like it sweeter tasting, go for Lavender Syrup
Red Rose
1 Cup of base
2 tbsp Rose Pedals, crushed with your Mortar Pestle
1/8 tsp salt (optional)
Rose Syrup for sweeter taste
This was my favorite! Love the look!
Pumpkin Spice (of Course)
1 cup of base
1 tsp Organic cinnamon powder
½ tsp Organic Clove Powder
Grated nutmeg…1 tsp
Mix
Sweet and Salty
Sweet and Salty
1 cup base
½ cup crushed pretzels
Caramel Syrup
Mix
With each of these, I placed in a small jar and topped with some of the spice. Just for fun!
Each cup of hot chocolate I put 2 heaping teaspoons into my mug. You can surely add more of anything to your liking!
The best part is to add whipping cream really a MUST!!!!
Enjoy!
Let me know what you think or what variety you came up with!
Love to hear what you created!
God’s blessings and keeping cozy warm,
Love deeper, talk sweeter,
Lee
