christmas cocoa

Make your own coffee-shop-worthy drink at home with this easy spiced hot chocolate recipe! Cinnamon and nutmeg add festive flavour, but it&#039;s the star anise that makes this warm drink extra special. 

Spiced Hot Chocolate

Dutch-processed cocoa powder

brown sugar

salt

milk

vanilla extract

cinnamon

star anise pods

nutmeg (or freshly grated)

Place a small saucepan on the counter. Add cocoa powder, sugar and salt. Stir to combine. 

Add 2 tbsp of cold milk and whisk until the cocoa powder is dissolved. 

Add the remaining milk to the pot. Place the saucepan over medium heat and whisk the mixture.

Add the remaining ingredients, stir, and simmer gently over medium heat. Stir often, for about 10 minutes. Remove saucepan from heat.

For a mild flavour, immediately remove and discard whole spices and serve. For a stronger flavour, allow mixture to cool before placing in the fridge for 1-2 hours. Then, take the mixture out of the fridge, remove and discard the whole spices, and reheat the hot chocolate before serving.

Garnish cups of hot chocolate as desired and refrigerate unused portions promptly. 

Probably one of the most comforting drinks I’ve made before. I’d definitely say you need the actual ingredients, and not the substitutions unless you want to be mucking around with taste preferences tho. Despite that, definitely a treat I’d recommend!

I am on a pleasure free Lent program. So I was looking for a base spiced cocoa recipe which I could just omit the sugar from. Thanks for the spice recommendations! I added all of them. And some cinnamon just for good measure. Tbh it tasted better without the cinnamon. But I think I over did it on the cayenne pepper...

Ratio, mix and method is prefect! I let sit in the fridge for 2 hours and quite like the strength. I also added some ginger and cardamom as they are my favourite additions to hot drinks.

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