Hot Cocoa from scratch.
IN honor of my fave holiday tradition of going to my mom's for Hot cocoa and toast-
in family of dippers ( but i am sooo not a dipper) with the family Christmas eve. here you go!
Hot Cocoa (directly off the side of the Hershey's cocoa box)
cooks on top of stove: Makes 6 servings (can be easily doubled for a large family or a party)
1/2 Cup Sugar
1/4 cup Hershey's Cocoa
dash of salt (we never do the salt)
1/3 Cup hot water
4 cups milk
3/4 tsp. Vanilla extract
1. Mix Sugar,Cocoa, and salt in the saucepan; Stir in water .
2. Cook and stir over medium heat until mixture boils;boil and stir 2 minutes
3. Stir in Milk and heat do not boil
4. remove from heat; add vanilla
add flavored creamers if you want. whipped cream. milk to cool it down, whatever. i like it plain, and even cold the next day from the fridge. love it!
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Lance's recipe
Lance makes our Hot chocolate in a Cocoa Latte (hot drink maker-at linens and things or bed bath and beyond , they have some version of them at Walmart too. i bought it for Lance's birthday last year, he was thrilled.)
Lance's special recipe for hot cocoa
2 cups of milk
1/8 cup cocoa
3/8 cups of sugar
1 teaspoon of Vanilla ( we use imported from Mexico vanilla)
put 2 cups milk in the machine, 1/8 cup cocoa, and 3/8 cups sugar, and the vanilla . turn it on to mix and heat, when it stops mixing, turn off the mixer part, Turn on froth feature. pour into cups, add milk to taste or coolness (for the kids) i like mine strong so i don't add extra milk. but sometimes i add peppermint creamer. love it!
and it is so easy Liberty(age 8) makes it all by herself for the fam.
we have to make 2 batches though, (large family and all) plus they guzzle it down.
side note: i tricked Lance into making me cocoa right now before I'd post his recipe, i haven't loved it i think it's weak, apparently i like it extra milk free. I learn something new everyday. I'm on my second cup!
so there you go 2 cocoa recipes. 2 ways to make it.
try it and let me know what you think.
© 2009 crazymamaof6
4 comments:
I am too lazy to make it! I love the LDS cannery's Hot Choc...super sweet & gives me a stomachache every time.
I love the Christmas blog design!
And. Ahem. Am I going to get a hot pink Christmas card this year? I certainly hope SO!
xoxo & Holiday Cheer.
mmm delicious!
OMGOSH. I have looked at that recipe on the can of cocoa and never thought twice about making it. Today in IOWA it's 25 cold degrees and my hubby and and friend were on the roof doing some cable lines. They were sooo cold I made a batch. SOO FLIPPIN GOOD.
I had to make more, the kids loved it. I told them I got the recipe from Crazy Mama's blog. My little one said "is the name of the hot choc called Crazy Cocoa"? I laughed and said "yes, we'll call it Crazy Cocoa" We are going to have our 1st big snow on tues here.
They ask me to make sure we have plenty of milk on tues. So here's to Crazy Cocoa!!!
Thank you,
Tracy
Thank you
Yumminess!
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