Homemade hot chocolate recipe gift

18-10-2016, 18:27

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By Monica Makes 6 cups

This combination constitutes a wealthy, chocolaty mug of hot cocoa. It's easy to dress in hands during cold temperature, as well as constitutes a great gift.

2 cups powdered sugar
1 cup unsweetened cacao (Nederlander-process suggested)
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons corn starch
1 pinch red pepper cayenne
3 cups nonfat dry milk powder
1 cup small semi-sweet choc chips

Add sugar and cacao to mixer. Pulse until well-mixed. (Or, combine ingredients in large bowl and whisk until well mixed.) Add salt, corn starch, and cayenne pulse until mixed. Add powdered milk process for 25-thirty seconds until well mixed. Transfer mix to bowl and stir in choc chips. Store in airtight container.

To Create ONE MUG OF HOT Cacao:
Fill 1/3 to at least oneOr2 of mug with cacao mix. Add warm water or milk and stir until mix is dissolved.

Inclusions In TRY:
--Top with marshmallows or whipped cream and sprinkle with cinnamon, shaved chocolate, or crushed chocolate canes.
--For any mocha drink, give a shot of espresso prior to the warm water or milk.
--For spiced cacao, add 1/4 teaspoon pumpkin cake spice to mug.
--Spike it having a tablespoon of peppermint liqueur or Kahlua.
--Stir in and dissolve a caramel, chocolate square, or chocolate mint.
--Give a cinnamon stick or chocolate cane for any stir stick.

Hot cacao is comfort on the cold day. I love mine dark, wealthy, and chocolaty. This combination is that. It's all too easy to create a quick batch to possess on hands throughout the winter several weeks. And, this makes a well known gift. It's difficult to find somebody that does not like hot cacao. You will find downloadable tags below, to allow you to definitely turn this right into a gift jar.

Many hot cacao mix recipes make use of an artificial coffee creamer to include creaminess towards the mix. I favor to depart out artificial ingredients and eliminate that hint of the chemical taste. This recipe, according to Alton Brown's. has pure, wholesome ingredients. It's powdered milk inside it, therefore it is intended as combined with warm water. But I love to increase the creaminess by doubling on the milk--I love mine combined with hot milk. Warm water is nice, too. Your decision.

My recipe is DOUBLE chocolate, since i add small choc chips combined with the cacao powder. Why? Since I can. And, my philosophy is the fact that more chocolate is definitely better. The chips melt in to the hot cacao and give a layer of richness that transmits me right to chocolate paradise.

I suggest that you employ the highest quality cacao you'll find. This is the answer to a great cup of hot cacao. I favor Nederlander-process cacao, whether it's available in which you shop. My personal favorite is Penzey's. When they posess zero store in your town, you can find it on the internet. But, there are other common brands offered at the supermarket which will work. Amazon . com includes a good organic Nederlander-process cacao .

Are you aware? Nederlander-process cacao is really a more dark, more potent color and it has less acidity than natural cacao passing on a smoother, mellow taste.

Step-by-step photos to make
Double-Chocolate Hot Cacao Mix:

Assemble the components: cacao, powdered milk, powdered sugar, corn starch, salt, small choc chips, and cayenne. (Don't allow the cayenne scare you. Just give a pinch towards the mix. It does not allow it to be taste spicy--however it does boost the cacao flavor. Believe me and Alton Brown about this one.)

For those who have a mixer, it can make the blending simple and easy , thorough. But you may also whisk everything together inside a big bowl.

First add some powdered sugar and cacao towards the mixer. Pulse until mixed.

Add some corn starch, salt, and pinch of cayenne. Pulse until mixed.

Add some powdered milk. Process for 25-thirty seconds until well mixed. The meals processor does a fantastic job of pulverizing the dried milk and providing the cacao mix an excellent, consistent texture throughout.

Transfer this mixture to some large bowl, add some choc chips, and stir.

Place the add airtight containers. I made use of pint size, wide mouth jars. One batch fills 3 of those jars. A canning funnel makes this tidier and simpler.

It's not hard to turn this cacao mix right into a gift!

Using the tags Provided below and a few ribbon, there is a quick, homemade gift that will certainly please. Ideal for teachers, neighbors, and co-workers. This is an excellent gift for college kids--something I usually designed for our boys to possess within their college dorms. In older days.

Downloadable tags. Listed here are 4 downloadable gift tags to select from. They include instructions for implementing the cacao mix. Just click the image to print a sheet from the tag(s) of your liking. You are able to print them on sticker paper and stick them around the jar. Or, print them in writing or cardstock and tape or tie them on.

1. Red Eco-friendly generic Christmas tag
2. Red Eco-friendly Christmas tag with spot to write "Back and forth fromInch

3. Blue generic winter tag
4. Blue winter tag with spot to write "Back and forth fromInch

These tags were printed on sticker paper. It's not hard to cut them out and stick them directly on the jar. This way the blending instructions are attached and handy. Give a bow if you want to pretty up.

Or, print the tags on cardstock. punch an entire within the corner and tie on the rubberband. These may be easily extended round the jar rim where they are able to stay for simple reference.

Kick the present up a notch by together with a fun mug.

Give a bottle of my homemade peppermint liqueur to some mug with some chocolate canes and marshmallows for an additional fun gift. I composed twelve of those gift combos to offer to King-Mans co-workers this past year, plus they were a success!

View Easy Peppermint Liqueur Recipe
(If you won't want to help make your own liqueur, to keep your a large bottle of peppermint schnapps and divide into smaller sized bottles.)

Listed here are the tags I made use of on my small bottles of peppermint liqueur. Click the image to download a sheet of these:

Ways to use the hot cacao mix

Be sure to save a few of the mix so that you can create a scrumptious, chocolaty mug of double chocolate hot cacao for you personally!

To Create ONE MUG OF HOT Cacao:

Fill 1/3 to at least oneOr2 of mug with cacao mix. Add warm water or milk and stir until mix is dissolved.

Tasty VARIATIONS AND ADDITIONS:

Top with marshmallows or whipped cream and sprinkle with cinnamon, shaved chocolate, or crushed chocolate canes.
For any mocha drink, give a shot of espresso prior to the warm water or milk.
For spiced cacao, add 1/4 teaspoon pumpkin cake spice to mug.
Spike it having a tablespoon of peppermint liqueur or Kahlua. (View Minty Hot Cocoa Peppermint Liqueur Cocktail recipe)
Stir in and dissolve a caramel, chocolate square, or chocolate mint.
Give a cinnamon stick or chocolate cane for any stir stick.

Turn it into a Tasty day!
Monica