Hot Dark Chocolate

Sharon123's Note:

Not one but three deep-chocolate versions of your favorite wintertime sip. You can easily double or triple this recipe to serve a crowd. Adapted from Delish magazine.

• Total Time: 10 mins
• Prep Time: 5 mins
• Cook Time: 5 mins

Ingredients:

Serves: 4

Yield: 1.0 quart

• 1 quart milk (may use soy, almond, cow, rice milk)
• ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa
• ¼ cup sugar
• 2 ounces dark chocolate , finely chopped (or semi sweet chocolate)
• 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

Directions:

1. In 2-quart saucepan, heat milk to simmering over medium heat.
2. With wire whisk, stir in cocoa, sugar, chocolate, and vanilla. Heat mixture 3 minutes or until chocolate melts, stirring occasionally.
3. Pour into warm mugs to serve.
4. Variations:.
5. Mexican Hot Chocolate:
6. Prepare Hot Dark Chocolate as above, but add 1 cinnamon stick (3 inches long) to milk in step 1.
7. Coffee-Spiked Hot Chocolate:.
8. Prepare Hot Dark Chocolate as above, but stir 1/4 cup strong coffee(I use decaf) into chocolate mixture just before serving.

Reviews

[Annacia]

Sharon, you have a marvelous mocha-cocoa here. Made it with Hershey Special Dark chocolate bar and 50/50 skim milk & fat free coffee creamer. Simple to make, it only takes a few mins and delivers a cup that you want to savor slowly to make it last.

[Boomette]

I made it in the microwave. I used splenda and chocolate chips. It's so yummy and creamy. Thanks Sharon :) Made for PRMR tag game. My son loved it.

[LARavenscroft]

Yummy, yummy, yummy. This is very good. Scaled this down to one serving. Enjoyed the combination of dark chocolate (which I prefer over milk chocolate) and vanilla. Thanks for posting this Sharon! made for 123 Hits.