Recipes

Great Hot Chocolate

This recipe uses real chocolate to give you creamy taste. We use a Thermomix, but you can do it on a hob by continually stirring and using a food thermometer.

You can use any chocolate, experiment with different brands and percentages. You could also try different flavours, like orange. Be aware that if you use milk chocolate, it might taste too sweet, you could also do half milk and half dark to taste. We like dark chocolate, 64% cocoa from E Wedel.

This makes a portion for one person in a 350ml mug. You might need to reduce the proportions if your mugs are smaller. Multiple the recipe by the number of people, but remember it will take longer to heat up.

Preparation

1. Brake your chocolate into small pieces

Method

1. Add the following to Thermomix:

   1. 200ml of Whole Milk

   2. 100ml of Whipping Cream (30+% fat)

2. Set the following: Speed 3, 65C, 5 minutes (or heat on low, continually stir to 65C)

3. Make sure it has reached 65C. If not add some extra time until this is reached.

4. Add broken pieces of 50g chocolate

5. Set the following: Speed 5, 65C, 3 minutes (or heat on low, continually stir to 65C)

6. Make sure it has reached 65 degrees and the chocolate is fully mixed (no lumps). If not, repeat at a higher speed if necessary.

7. Serve

   1. Add some real spray cream (like Président Crème Fouettée) and grate some chocolate on top

Alternative

As well as trying different chocolates, you could also swap the whole milk and cream for only half-milk to save a few calories.

You could also add marshmallows as a topping if you like them.