Homemade cocoa hot chocolate

2 servings
10 min

Hot chocolate was cooked back in the days of the ancient Aztecs. At that time, he was served to bitter and cold, and only to noble persons. The Indians rubbed cocoa beans into a paste, then added spices and water and whipped the resulting liquid until foam was obtained. Such a drink was called "chocolatl" - "foam water. " From here came the name - chocolate. Such an exquisite drink can be easily made at home. The main taste of the drink will depend on cocoa. Therefore, you should not save on quality. If you are afraid of extra calories, then you can use milk instead of cream. For the aroma, when cooking, spices such as cinnamon stick or a pair of badyan stars can be added. Before serving, of course, they will need to be removed from the drink. And for more warming, you can pour a little rum or cognac. Such a drink will perfectly cheer and warm after the autumn, cold wind. For children, of course, such supplements are excluded. But on the other hand, they gladly catch melted marshmallow from the drink, which, when they melt, begin to stretch.

How to make homemade hot chocolate from cocoa powder? Prepare the products. Cocoa for such a drink take natural, without additives, powder type & quot; Nesquik & quot; won't work. Cream can take any fat, to taste. Starch is suitable for both potato and corn. Take twice as much corn. In a hot chocolate cooking bucket, mix the cocoa and starch together.

Add cold water to the ladle and mix to mix the cocoa powder and starch evenly. Then put the ladle over a small heat and heat the mixture, stirring constantly, until the ingredients dissolve.

Then pour the cream into the ladle and continue heating with constant stirring.

Pour in the sugar. Bring the mixture to a boil. Constantly interfere so that nothing burns to the bottom.

Boil the hot chocolate for about a minute after boiling.

Immediately hot, pour the drink into prepared glasses and treat. A nice addition to such a drink will be a handful of marshmallow added to it. From the high temperature of the drink, they will begin to melt and will be even tastier! Pleasant treats!