LAURA LEE ALICE
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Hot Chocolate Mix
I left the word "homemade" out of this recipe because this is
sooo much better than any I've tried before. And it can
easily be doubled or tripled. And it makes the best gift!
Even though this is a simple recipe, you can make it even better
by the addition of different ingredients and toppings. Hershey
now makes a dark cocoa and several companies now offer
powdered cream. There are just so many options to the
traditional recipe.
About the Ingredients
• Sugar-Basic granulated sugar.
• Cocoa-Always use fresh and good quality.
• Powdered milk-You can use more than specified, will make it
creamier. Check out the powdered cream too.
• Cayenne-Just a tiny bit enhances the taste of hot chcoclate.
The Olmec, Mayan and Aztec civilizations were the first to turn the
cacao beans into chocolate and they enhanced the flavor by
using hot peppers..
Ingredients
• 1½ cups sugar
• 1 cup baking cocoa*
• 1 cup powdered milk or powdered cream (I mix half of each one)
• A teeny tiny pinch of cayenne (optional)
You will need a storage jar with a tight-fitting lid. The size will
depend on the quantity.
Instructions
1. Combine the ingredients in a jar; shake to combine*.
2. For each cup of hot chocolate, add 2 tablespoons of mix plus
hot water; stir and enjo
Options (add per batch or cup)
• Mini chocolate chips, ¼ cup per batch or sprinkle on top
• Pumpkin pie spice, 1 tsp per batch
• Cinnamon, 1 tsp per batch
• Mini marshmallows, dehydrated, ¼ cup per batch
Dehydrated work better when doing a batch; use the regular
mini marshmallows when doing it by the cup.
• Candy canes are great to use for stirring!
KEYWORDS
best hot chocolate, simple hot chocolate, easy hot chocolate
Recipes are like stories; they can change from person to person. Everyone has their idea of how a recipe should be, even
though it may have changed from the original. We will never know the true author of the original recipe, regardless of
what some may say. That's why I go back and look through the oldest cookbooks that I can find. Sometimes it's not the
recipe in the books that I find, but the tiny pieces of handwritten recipes and newspaper articles that are stuck within
the pages. That's where the real story is, finding those simple Southern recipes. -Mac