How to Make Creamy Hot Cocoa
Keep some condensed milk in stock and ready for cold days, and make a batch of rich hot chocolate warm your loved ones.
Don’t know jack how to whip up your own? Watch this video and you might be the star of your home come cold days!
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350-year-old Iced Chocolate Recipe Recently Discovered
A university lecturer has found some notes that had instructions on how to make a 17th century version of what many of us are crazy about these days, the chilled coffee drink, but in this case, it’s chocolate. Health warnings about drinking too much of the brown confection were even attached to it.
Dr. Kate Loveman, an English lecturer at the University of Leicester, said that the recipe instructed the maker to mix chocolate, some “snow” and some salt and “shake the snow together (for) sometime” in what’s supposedly the first sample of its kind.
She said, “It’s not chocolate ice-cream but more like a very solid and very dark version of the iced chocolate drinks you get in coffee shops today.”
Because of the fact that in those times, freezing food was a pain in the neck, this iced dessert would have been a luxury. Dr. Loveman discovered a myriad of other recipes in a note written by one of the country’s earliest chocoholics, the Earl of Sandwich, in 1668. His great, great grandson is allegedly the one who invented the sandwich. Dr. Loveman has now published a paper on the introduction of chocolate into England.
She said the chocolate became famous first in England by 1640 as an exotic drink made out of cocoa beans. During the 1660s, chocolate typically went hand in hand with advice about safe consumption.
There was even this certain doctor during such time that gave warnings about how the composition of hot chocolate could stir up insomnia, excess mucus, or hemorrhoids.
“People worried iced chocolate in particular was ‘unwholesome’ and could damage the stomach, heart, and lungs. She added, “There were ways around this and the Earl thought the best way to ward off the dangers of eating frozen chocolate was drink some hot chocolate about an hour afterwards.”
To cut it all short, the chocoholics of the modern day didn’t just recently surface. Chocoholics have been around for like forever, or at least ever since the treat was discovered.
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Simple winter wedding help?
Future Mrs Winfrey3 Asked: Simple winter wedding help?
My fiance and I are planing out wedding for Dec 21st and I need a little help finding a few things. I need hot chocolate mugs for about 50 people that are not crazy expensive because I plan on having a little hot chocolate kit for every person (hot chocolate mix, a candy cane, and a little pack of marshmallows). The mugs don’t have to match because there will be people of all ages 🙂
I’m also looking for inexpensive decorating ideas. I’ve got snowflakes, Christmas lights, and my aunty is helping me with my cake.
Any little things you can think of, tips and advice, feel free to talk about them! I’d like to hear what you’ve done for your weddings or what you plan on for future weddings. 🙂 Thanks a bunch.
Answers:
Sarah Answered:
Aw…I love the winter wedding idea!I think the mugs with hot chocolate makings is really cute!For the mugs I’d do a google search and see if you can buy them in bulk really cheaply.Check eBay too…they have everything there.The next place is to go to mass retailers…like Target, Meijer, WalMart, KMart, Sam’s Club.They probably have cheap, plain mugs.You could buy all they have.Maybe go to different locations to get all 50 that you need.
For decorating ideas, I like the white Christmas lights.You could hang lots of those all over.I think the more the better with those.If you just have a few strands, they look boring and typical.But using a lot would look more elegant and provide more lighting too.
You could look for little snowflake confetti to sprinkle on the tables.I wouldn’t go too overboard with snowflakes…like, don’t hang giant snowflakes from the ceiling.I think that would look more tacky than classy.My advice is to use lots of white lights for the primary decoration.And little touches of snowflakes here and there.Perhaps your aunt could make fondent snowflakes to put on the sides of your cake or something. ?
Maybe have the name cards at the tables (if you’re doing that) in the shape of snowflakes…or just have snowflake stickers on them.
You could have snowflakes on your invitations – either in the shape of a snowflake, or images of snowflakes on them.
What colors are you going with?B/c when I think “winter wedding” I think either light blue and white, or deep purple. Just my opinion.
Bella Bruce Answered:
make the colors light baby blue and white!!
MeanMrMustard Answered:
I love winter weddings. What I was going to do for mine was have a little tree without any leaves on it and have little cards with ribbons on them so people can write a wish and hang it on the wishing tree. Your center prices could be a glass with fake snow and snowflakes in it with branches coming out of it.
lady Answered:
I believe Ikea has plain white mugs for 50 cents each……Closer in the fall when the Christmas stuff is out, you can probably find Christmas ones at the dollar store, you may find plain ones there now. Check the dollar stores (Dollar Tree, 99 cent Store, etc) for inexpensive things for decorations and centerpieces for your tables. You will also be able to find boxes of hot chocolate packets at the dollar store.
Jenny Lynne Answered:
Go to thrift stores, coffee mugs galore.Branches, you can buy from site below or make your own, find in woods, clean, let dry, spray paint white from dollar store. When dry, use spray on craft glue and buy crystals from $ store or site below and pour over while glue is wet.Also, clear marbles from dollar store, break up pieces and use. Mirror tiles, break carefully and have hanging high so no one will get cut or buy round or rectangle have seen at Freds. If someone has a forest, get pine seedlings or cedar, plant in buckets cover bottoms with cotton batting and/ or white sheets and oodles of tulle, use twinkle lights and artificial plastic snow, be careful of the glittery kind it sticks to floor. Use small clumps of cotton to look like little mounds of snow on some of the branches. On snow flakes spray white and some white with a tinge of silver on ends. Also, use the pearl looking craft beads and glue to make a tiny flower in the center, or some on the tips of each, hang at different heights and have different sizes. Instead of draping twinkle lights hang some from end to end for a different look. White cloth and tulle for the ceiling.Have a twig tree at every or every three pews so that it will look like you are walking down an ice covered aisle. Or use pine or cedar swag and drape along inside of pews with white bows at each or every third pew or line of seats and have guests enter from outside. Spray with glue and add sparkle, icy crystals. Think of ice blues, silver and whites. Also, go to Dollar Tree for many inexpensive, good ideas. Site ishttp://www.save-on-crafts.com
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can i put hot chocolate mix in sugar cookies?
Gods child Asked: can i put hot chocolate mix in sugar cookies?
Can i put Hot chocolate mix in sugar cookies to make chocolate sugar cookies?
Here’s the recipe i would be using:
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon of baking powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup [one stick] unsalted butter softened
3/4 cup of sugar
1 egg
3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
Answers:
Nana Lamb Answered:
If you want to, go ahead!! I would use about 1 cup cocoa mix or 1/4 cup Hershey Cocoa powder either regular or the Dark Chocolate. Or you can melt bitter baking chocolate, chocolate chips, bakers semi sweet chocolate, or Hershey bars and stir it in.
Linda Answered:
You could, but the chocolate flavor wouldn’t be very strong. And hot chocolate mix has sugar and powdered milk in it too. If you really want to, use 1/4 cup of the mix and reduce the sugar to 1/2 cup.
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chocolate cheesecake? master bakers help!?
shaynakaderr Asked: chocolate cheesecake? master bakers help!?
i made these mini cheesecakes and they were good but i wanna make CHOCOLATE cheesecake! is there anything i can just add to my current recipe to make them chocolate? i don’t want to change the base just the cheesecake filling. i like the graham cracker crust with chocolate:) so here’s the recipe. let me know what you would do to make this CHOCOLATE!
2 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese
3/4 cup white sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Answers:
Kai L Answered:
Simply add cocoa powder until it’s chocolate enough. 😀
Simply add cocoa powder until it’s chocolate enough. 😀
buckeyebonbon Answered:
I would add dutch-process cocoa because if you add melted chocolate, it might make the cheesecake too thin, or if you like, you could just make a chocolate-chip cheesecake…just add a bag of chocolate chips to it after you’ve mixed everything up.Happy baking!
I would add dutch-process cocoa because if you add melted chocolate, it might make the cheesecake too thin, or if you like, you could just make a chocolate-chip cheesecake…just add a bag of chocolate chips to it after you’ve mixed everything up.Happy baking!
Captain Awesome Answered:
So I am a great cook but a terrible baker with the exception of cheesecake. So I don’t generally do chocolate cheesecake, my specialty is white chocolate pumpkin (which is amazing by the way). But the great thing about cheesecake is, it’s more of a custard and less a cake so it’s more forgiving then flour is. My suggestion would be to use a double broiler and met yourself some chocolate and experiment a little. Now there are a few things to keep in mind:
So I am a great cook but a terrible baker with the exception of cheesecake. So I don’t generally do chocolate cheesecake, my specialty is white chocolate pumpkin (which is amazing by the way). But the great thing about cheesecake is, it’s more of a custard and less a cake so it’s more forgiving then flour is. My suggestion would be to use a double broiler and met yourself some chocolate and experiment a little. Now there are a few things to keep in mind:
1.) Make sure you fold the chocolate into the batter so it’s not too heavy.
2.) NEVER add hot chocolate into the mix. You are working with raw eggs. Unless you want them scrambled, wait til it is cool but still liquid.
3.) Less is more. Make a batch with less chocolate, add more to subsequent batches until it is right.
4.) Generally with cheesecake as long as the consistency of the mix is similar to the consistency that you would see if there was NO chocolate in the mix, then it will probably turn out halfway decent.
5.) You MAY want to experiment with making the mix a little more runny than normal, especially since when the chocolate gets cold it may harden.
Just experiment with small batches.
ceece Answered:
Hershey’s makes a baking chocolate that is perfect for chocolate cheesecake . It is located in the baking ingredients aisle.It is already melted chocolate inside a foil packet. There are 6-8 to a box, pre-measured 1 oz each. Simply squeeze one packet into your recipe and mix thoroughly. If it needs more chocolate add another. Bake as your recipe states.= )
Hershey’s makes a baking chocolate that is perfect for chocolate cheesecake . It is located in the baking ingredients aisle.It is already melted chocolate inside a foil packet. There are 6-8 to a box, pre-measured 1 oz each. Simply squeeze one packet into your recipe and mix thoroughly. If it needs more chocolate add another. Bake as your recipe states.= )
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Hot Chocolate Enhancements
Hot chocolate is always good, but have you thought about enhancing it? Jonathan Bender at The Pitch, Kansas City’s Food Blog, recently wrote a post about taking your typical hot chocolate and gussying it up a bit!
Keep in mind that Jonathan is the booze writer, so his tips revolve around alchohol. But since chocolate pairs well with just about anything, why not turn it into a cocktail of your dreams?
Check out these ideas:
http://blogs.pitch.com/fatcity/2010/01/gussy_up_your_hot_chocolate.php
Categories: chocolate articles, chocolate recipes Tags: cocktails, hot chocolate
