Best ever hot chocolate recipe

Ravinder Bhogal
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Best ever hot chocolate recipe

Try Ravinder's hot chocolate when you’re looking for something sumptuous, and for a cheeky nightcap add 25ml of your favourite liqueur such as Cointreau or Amaretto.

At a glance
  • Cuisine English
  • Recipe Type Drink
  • Difficulty Easy
  • Preparation time 5 mins
  • Cooking time 5 mins
  • Serves 1 person
Ingredients
  • 25 g (0.9oz) very good dark chocolate
  • 1 tbsp instant hot chocolate
  • 1 tsp brown sugar
  • 100 ml (3.5fl oz) whole milk
  • 20 ml (0.7fl oz) double cream
  • 1 marshmallow
  • 0.5 vanilla pod, split
  • 0.5 orange, zest only
  • 1 pinch of salt

Step-by-step

  1. In a saucepan, heat the milk, cream, sugar, vanilla pod, cocoa, salt and orange zest. Simmer over a low heat making sure it doesn’t boil.
  2. Place the chocolate in a heat proof bowl over a pan of gently simmering water and melt. Strain the milk over it. Discard the solids except for the vanilla pod, which I dry and stick in some sugar to make vanilla sugar.
  3. Mix well and carry on heating until it is hot. Whisk it up so it goes very frothy, and then pour into cups and top with a large marshmallow.
  4. For a cheeky nightcap add 25ml of your favourite liquer such as Cointreau or Amaretti.

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