Drinking Chocolate

Description

This drinking chocolate is perfect either hot or cold!

The first chocolate drink is believed to have been created at least 5,300 years starting with the Mayo-Chinchipe culture in Ecuador and later consumed by the Maya around 2,500–3,000 years ago. A cocoa drink was an essential part of Aztec culture by 1400 AD, by which they referred to as xocōlātl. The drink became popular in Europe after being introduced from Mexico in the New World and has undergone multiple changes since then. Until the 19th century, hot chocolate was used medicinally to treat ailments such as liver and stomach diseases.

This is how we make the perfect hot chocolate:

1. Heat approximately 200ml of your chosen dairy or plant-based milk, either slowly on the hob or in the microwave
2. Add 3 heaped teaspoons of hot chocolate into the warm milk.
3. Stir (or whisk) until the chocolate has dissolved into the milk.
4. If you’re then feeling particularly indulgent top it off with some whipped cream, or (our favourite) mini marshmallows.

Ingredients: sugar, fat reduced cocoa powder (cocoa sourced from West Africa) 30% cocoa solids min.