El Dorado Hot Chocolate
- Ready In:
- 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 3⁄4 cup sugar
- 1⁄4 cup water, plus
- 2 tablespoons water
- 8 ounces finely chopped milk chocolate or 8 ounces semisweet chocolate
- 6 cups milk
- 6 ounces cinnamon schnapps, see Cook's note (recommended Goldschlager)
- 3 ounces golden rum
directions
- Stir the sugar and 2 tablespoons of the water together in a heavy-bottomed saucepan. Cover and bring to a boil over medium heat. Uncover and continue to cook, swirling the pan but not stirring, until the sugar is a dark golden caramel, 7 to 10 minutes. (It should smell slightly burnt.).
- Pull pan from the heat and carefully pour the 1/4 cup water into the caramel. Take care; it may spatter a lot. Whisk until smooth and allow to cool. (The burnt caramel can be held for up to 2 weeks at room temperature.)
- When ready to serve: Put 3 tablespoons of the burnt caramel into 4 mugs or cups and top evenly with the chopped chocolate. Bring the milk to a simmer in a medium pan over medium heat. Pull pan from the heat and add the Goldschlager and rum; pour over the chocolate. Serve El Dorado Hot Chocolates with a spoon to stir the layers together.
- Cook's Note: Goldschlager is a cinnamon flavored liqueur with small flecks of edible gold.
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Reviews
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Oh Great Googlie Mooglie. Rum being my #1 spirit of choice and the fact that I worship the Cinnamon God made this pretty much of a shoe in. Since I had to at least try to make myself feel I wasn't being too very bad *cough* I used 1/8 of a cup of Splenda Brown Sugar in the water (heating just to dissolve it). For the milk I used fat free evap and the chocolate was mint chocolate chips because it was all I had. Well, I didn't get it layered so very well (likely because of my subs) and it sorta looked a mess but who cares! This is heavenly good (even with the mint) and I'm now on the hunt for that cinnamon liqueur. Thank you V for feeding my cinnamon addiction.
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