How to make hot chocolate at home

What is hot chocolate? How to cook it at home? You will find answers to these and other questions in the article. Chocolate is the favorite dessert in the world. For a long time it was available only in the form of a drink. In ancient times, hot chocolate was considered the "drink of the gods" and only priests and the highest nobility could enjoy it.

In 1846, a dessert in a tile was cast by the British Joseph Fry. It is known that people are constantly looking for recipes for drinks that would enhance attraction and sharpen passion. Let's consider some of them further.

Description

A cup of hot chocolate with aromatic seasonings was the secret weapon of the favorite of the king of France - Madame Pompadour. She drank it before each audience with the king. Casanova’s food consisted almost of aphrodisiacs: oysters, hot chocolate, nuts, truffles, caviar ...

Today, at home or in a cafe, the drink we are considering is cooked from tiled chocolate or chocolate chips in milk, with the addition of vanilla, cinnamon and sugar. Drinking is whipped to a foamy state.

Chocolate drinks

True hot chocolate is viscous, dark and very dense. This is a very nutritious and fatty drink. Its energy value among dessert drinks is the largest (one tbsp. - 250 kcal).

Cocoa is a non-fat drink (one tbsp. - 30 kcal). It is boiled from cocoa bean meal, which remained after pressing the oil, in water or milk. It is very liquid, can be considered a dessert diet drink.

Which chocolate to choose?

By far the best. Learn the label. Chocolate must not contain preservatives or flavors. With equal success, both milk and bitter will do. The more cocoa it contains, the more bitter it will be to drink. Porous chocolate is best not to use.

How to melt?

Melting chocolate is best in a water bath. To do this, take two pots, place the smaller in the larger. Pour water into a large pot, boil it and reduce heat to a minimum. Put a small pot of chocolate in it and wait until it melts. By the way, if water gets into the chocolate, it will curl. This must not be allowed.

How to make thicker?

To make the hot chocolate thick, add starch, sour cream or yolks to it. Thickeners need to be infused with a thin stream, stirring constantly. In this case, it is forbidden to overheat the chocolate, since the yolk, for example, can be cooked.

Additional components

You can give hot homemade chocolate special qualities and taste by using various spices, milk, cream, water, as well as liquor, cognac and rum.

Cream will make the drink softer, and its taste - velvet. If you add water, then the calorie content of the drink will decrease, and the chocolate taste will become more noticeable. As spices, various types of pepper, vanilla, ginger and cardamom are great.

Three Chocolate Recipe

Consider an interesting recipe for hot chocolate. For three servings you will need:

• 50 g of dark chocolate (60%);
• 450 ml cream;
• milk chocolate - 50 g;
• 21 raspberries;
• gelatin - 3 g;
• 50 g of white chocolate.

To make hot chocolate at home, you must:

1. Melt in the bath water dark chocolate.
2. Boil 50 ml of cream and dissolve the soaked gelatin (1 g) in them.
3. Combine the hot cream with chocolate, stir and cool the mixture a little.
4. Whip cream (100 ml) with a whisk and mix with chocolate.
5. Do the same with other types of chocolate.
6. Pour a mixture of dark chocolate into three glasses, put raspberries on top and pour alternately white and milk chocolate.

In French

We present you another amazing recipe for hot chocolate. At home, it is very easy to cook it up. To create four servings, take:

• dark chocolate - 100 g;
• one liter of water;
• sugar (to taste).
  

Prepare this drink like this:

1. Break the chocolate into pieces, send it to the pan, pour 1 tbsp. water is warm. Set aside for 5 minutes to soften the chocolate.
2. Heat by stirring over low heat so that the chocolate melts.
3. Pour in three tbsp. water and over moderate heat, constantly stirring, boil.
4. Cook for another ten minutes over low heat.
5. Beat with a whisk, add sugar (optional), serve hot.

Viennese

And how to cook hot chocolate in Viennese? To create four servings of this drink, take:

• sour cream - 4 tbsp. l .;
• three yolks;
• a bar of chocolate (black);
• 4 tbsp. water;
• sugar to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Break a bar of chocolate into pieces, send them to the pan, pour 1 tbsp. water is warm. Set aside for 5 minutes to make the chocolate soft.
2. On low heat, stirring, melt the chocolate completely.
3. Pour in three glasses of water and slowly stir in the yolks.
4. Stir until thickened over a fire, do not bring to a boil.
5. Pour the finished drink into cups, add one spoonful of sour cream and sugar to taste.

Banana drink

We will study another interesting recipe for hot chocolate made at home. To create four servings you will need:

• two bananas;
• milk - one liter;
• a pinch of cinnamon;
• chocolate - 100 g.

Prepare this drink as follows:

1. Peel the bananas, cut into slices. Break the chocolate.
2. Pour milk into the pan, send bananas and chocolate there.
3. Heat over low heat while stirring. It is not necessary to bring to a boil.
4. Remove from heat and whip until foam with a blender or whisk.
5. Pour into cups and sprinkle with cinnamon.

With chili peppers

To create four servings, take:

• zest of orange;
• two bars of chocolate;
• ground chili pepper (to taste);
• 0.5 tbsp. cream.

Cook this drink like this:

1. Melt the broken chocolate with cream in a water bath.
2. Add chili pepper (to taste) and zest, stir.

Serve the drink in small cups.

With what and what to drink?

Hot chocolate is suitable for marshmallows, pastille, ice cream, fruits, rolls and other pastries. He is also great with cognac. If you give him a glass of water, the taste of chocolate will reveal even more (as we discussed above).

Specialists conducted the following study. They gave 50 volunteers to try hot chocolate, cooked according to the same recipe, from cups of different colors. Many participants said that the most delicious drink is in orange cups.

From cocoa powder

To create this drink, take:

• 25 g of sugar;
• cocoa - three tsp;
• 5 g of vanilla sugar;
• 1.5 tbsp. milk.

Prepare this drink like this:

1. Dissolve regular and vanilla sugar in hot milk.
2. Pour cocoa with milk mixture, stir vigorously.

Here you can replace part of the milk with cream or water if you want to increase or decrease the thickness or fat content of the dessert.

Simple recipe

We take:

• two tbsp. milk:
• dark chocolate - 100 g.

Cook this drink like this:

1. Break the chocolate into pieces, place in a bowl and melt in a water bath.
2. Once the mass is homogeneous, pour in the milk, stirring with a whisk.

Very tasty drink

We take:

• a pinch of salt;
• cream (33%) - 75 ml;
• milk - 450 ml;
• milk chocolate - 30 g;
• ground cinnamon - a quarter tsp;
• bitter chocolate (70%) - 70 g;
• marshmallow.

So, follow these steps:

1. Heat the milk (150 ml), remove from the stove and make a chocolate ganache. To do this, combine the chocolate with milk and melt it, stirring occasionally.
2. Pour the remaining milk and cream into the saucepan, add salt and cinnamon.
3. Warm up the drink, but do not boil.
   

   Pour the drink into the cups, put the marshmallow on top.

Italian drink

You will need:

• a large spoon of sugar;
• 0.6 tbsp. cream
• 60 g of dark chocolate (70%);
• Arroroot - 1 tsp;
• zest of orange - 4 slices.

To create this drink, do this:

1. In a bowl, mix two tablespoons of cream and arrowroot.
2. Put the remaining cream into the pan and boil. Combine with sugar, a mixture of arrowroot and cook for a minute, until the mass begins to thicken.
3. Remove from heat, add crushed chocolate, stir quickly until smooth.

Pour into cups, garnish with zest and serve immediately.

Thick drink

Take:

• 30 g of starch;
• chocolate (200 g);
• liter of milk.

Cook this drink like this:

1. Dissolve starch in one glass of milk.
2. Pour the rest of the milk into a saucepan, put on a small fire, add chocolate.
3. Heat until chocolate melts.
4. Now pour the milk with starch, mix and heat the mass until thickened. Remove from heat.

Serve this drink hot. You can add cinnamon, vanilla or marshmallow if you wish.

Spicy drink

You will need:

• one cinnamon stick;
• one chili pepper;
• one spoonful of cognac;
• 2 tbsp. milk;
• whipped cream;
• dark chocolate - 100 g;
• ½ vanilla pod;
• cane sugar;
• cocoa (to your liking).
  

So follow these steps:

1. Grate most of the chocolate on a coarse grater. Break the rest into pieces.
2. Break the chili pepper into two parts, cut the vanilla pod along and send together with a stick of cinnamon to a saucepan with milk. Put on fire, heat, but do not boil. Pour the crushed chocolate, cook for ten minutes, stirring occasionally.
3. Remove spices, add sugar to taste, remove from heat. Pour in amaretto or cognac.
4. Pour the drink into cups, put whipped cream on top, sprinkle with cocoa or chocolate chips.

This rich drink is identical to the whole breakfast. To prevent it from being too sharp, remove the chili from the saucepan earlier.

Mexican drink

To create this drink you need to have:

• cinnamon (1 tsp);
• liter of milk;
• a pinch of salt;
• 100 g of brown sugar;
• two eggs;
• 100 g unsweetened dark chocolate;
• 1 tsp vanilla sugar;
• 4 cinnamon sticks.

Prepare this drink like this:

1. Send chocolate, salt, milk, ground cinnamon, brown and vanilla sugar to the pan, stir.
2. Place on a small fire and stir until the chocolate has completely melted. Remove from heat.
3. Drive the eggs into the mixture, put on the stove again and cook for five minutes, stirring constantly.
4. Whisk into the foam with a whisk. Decorate the glasses with cinnamon sticks.

With wild berries

So take:

• 300 g of iced berries;
• 50 g butter;
• 30 g of sugar;
• dark chocolate (200 g);
• 2 tbsp. cream (20%).
  

Prepare this drink like this:

1. Melt in the bath water chocolate and combine it with cream, mix.
2. Lightly simmer frozen berries in cow butter and sugar, mix them with a creamy chocolate mass.

Serve cold or hot.

Sicilian drink

You will need:

• 8 pieces of biscuit cookies;
• one and a half Art. water;
• Bonajuto Chocolate - 100).

Cook this drink like this:

1. Break the chocolate into pieces, melt in water over low heat.
2. Remove from heat and set aside for 10 minutes.
3. Heat again and beat with a mixer.

Pour into cups and serve with biscuits. Drink with pleasure!